Sentences with phrase «burning wood fuel»

Past studies suggest burning wood fuel is responsible for approximately 2 % of global CO2 emissions.

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It fell easily; one wing snagged on a fir top; the metal fell down the air and smashed into the thin woods where cattle browse; the fuel exploded, and Julie Norwich, seven years old, burnt off her face....

Besides the burning of wood for fuel, forest fires add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

But the largest contribution to restoring the carbon balance will be a reduction in world population since every person who lives makes a contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by his or her use of the products of industry or by burning wood for fuel.

The pellet cookers burn 100 percent wood for fuel and the only thing that's automated is the delivery system.

In Third World countries, the wood that is burned for fuel to heat the artificial milk creates further air pollution.

Ghana's forests, which once covered a third of its 24 - million - hectare landmass, have been degraded at an alarming rate by excessive and often illegal logging, slash - and - burn agriculture, mining and quarrying, and fuel wood collection.

Five of the six families involved in the pilot project received a multi-fuel burning stove, with waste wood fuel as the primary heat source.

But because wood burning is seen as outdated and environmentally unfriendly, governments have tried to persuade their citizens to use other fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and electricity.

In winter months, when demand for heat cranks up, there are two reserve systems: an additional heating plant fueled by wood chips, and another (rarely used) furnace that burns traditional oil.

Jacobson, the study's author, noted that the study also separated the effects of black carbon produced by burning fossil fuels and that produced by biofuels like wood or dung.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

The organic matter in soils, sediments, and water may come from decomposed land plants, dead plankton (tiny marine animals and plants), or burned wood or fossil fuels, and it offers clues about Earth's past and present environments.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

About 18 percent of all human - made carbon dioxide emissions — or nearly 8.5 billion tons each year — comes from the burning of forests, savannahs and wood chips for fuel, said Mark Jacobson, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford and the study's main author.

Nevertheless, «it's still better to heat with wood than to burn fossil fuels,» says Cherubini.

At this point, charcoal can be used as fuel and burns cleaner and hotter than wood.

Carbon monoxide is produced by liquid or solid fuel sources like a gas burning appliances or a wood burning stove.

You have to keep putting small amounts of wood (the right type of fuel) on the fire at regular intervals or the fire burns out.

An old wood burning stove fuelled with well seasoned firewood and pinecones gathered from the garden provides welcome warmth — even in the summer months the nights are cool in this mountainous region.

With its wood burning stove fuelled with wood from the estate, Wild Eyedeer can be warm and cosy, whilst being extremely spacious providing a comfortable, light, airy and well - equipped stay.

Because traditional cookstoves burn their fuel (wood and dung) incompletely.

But in other places, propane or other fossil fuels, or simply a more efficient stove for burning wood, may be the right choice.

In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically reduces the burning of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations.

Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.

Many tiny housers build a raised platform for their wood burning stove, creating space for fuel storage below.

The largest sources are the burning of fossil fuels, agricultural fires, and residential heating and cooking with wood and coal.

The American Lung Association recommends continuing research on the health effects of burning wood and other biomass sources, and the technologies to reduce the emissions associated with the combustion of these fuels.

Powering cars with corn and burning wood to make electricity might seem like a way to lessen dependence on fossil fuels and help solve the climate crisis.

Burning biomass, whether directly as wood or in the form of ethanol or biodiesel, emits carbon dioxide, just like burning fossilBurning biomass, whether directly as wood or in the form of ethanol or biodiesel, emits carbon dioxide, just like burning fossilburning fossil fuels.

During the Industrial Revolution, the burning of wood and other traditional materials for fuel was replaced by the burning of coal and later oil and natural gas — so - called fossil fuels.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Bioenergy can be produced from wood materials by various processes, ranging from burning sticks and branches for cooking and heating to gasification of wood chips to produce transport fuel.

With increased efficiency in burning fuel, it reduced wood consumption by about 60 percent.

Burning other types of fuel, including wood, accounts for 8.2 % of emissions.

«Soot» (upper left hand image) is actually `'» carbon» — a physical remnant of incomplete combustion of burning wood or fossil fuels.

In addition, they ignore natural burning of fossil fuels including forest fires, long - burning coal seams and peat; as Hans Erren noted, fossil coal is buried wood.

This in turn has reduced the level of forest denudation through illegal fuel wood harvesting, logging and charcoal burning.

In just a few years, wanton and deliberate destruction of the escarpment environment through charcoal burning, logging for timber and fuel wood, ring - debarking of medicinal trees and overgrazing has resulted to virtual depletion of forest vegetation cover.

It seems as if orthodox environmentalists prefer burning wood or biomass versus fossil fuels.

Many aerosols are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and wood, and cause lung damage, also adding to acid rain and smog.

Wood pellets have become a popular fuel, but scientists are divided on whether burning wood to produce heat and power can be considered climate friendly.

The majority of the worlds population living in extreme poverty with a lot of the renewables use being more environment destroying dung burning and deforestation for wood fuel.

That gas is burned to create heat and electricity, or is refined as a fuel for cars... Kristianstad also burns gas emanating from an old landfill and sewage ponds, as well as wood waste from flooring factories and tree prunings.

Breathing or wood burning doesn't add extra CO2 to the atmosphere, because what we breath or use as firewood was removed as CO2 from the atmosphere months to years before by photosynthesis... In contrast, fossil fuels were removed from the atmosphere many millions of years ago and now it is one - way addition...

But Drax's giant wood - burning boilers are fueled almost entirely by 6.5 million tons of wood pellets shipped annually across the Atlantic.

Most operators of wood - burning power plants publicly insist that their main fuel is forest «thinnings,» such as twigs and branches.