Sentences with phrase «displacing kerosene lamps»
Anyway, taking Africa as an example, off - grid electricity (thanks to PV) is making significant in - roads mostly without government «assistance» particularly in East Africa where, in the first instance it is displacing kerosene lamps.
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Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.