Sentences with phrase «for fuel wood»

In the Darfur refugee camps of Chad, where women face assault and death as they search for fuel wood for their cooking fires, solar cookers are helping are keeping women and girls from attack by providing the means of cooking without leaving the camps.

These women depend directly on the forest, like over two billion others worldwide, for fuel wood, water, fodder for their livestock.

Not exact matches

What's left — paper, plastic, fabric, and wood — will serve as the raw ingredients for its bio jet fuel.

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

Over two billion people rely on wood for household fuel, for example, and the supply for seventy percent of them is insecure.

To get fuel for the smelter furnaces the magnificent hard wood forests were cut down.

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

A 1980 study by the World Bank of West African countries showed that the demand for wood for fuel exceeded the estimated sustainable yields of forests in eleven of the thirteen countries surveyed.

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 wood is used 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.

To qualify for additional assistance, a household must meet income eligibility requirements; have exhausted both regular and first emergency benefits during the 2010 - 11 HEAP season; and have a current shut - off notice on either heat or «heat - related» electricity or an oil, propane, wood or other fuel supply with less than 1/4 tank remaining.

For a tropical country like Ghana, the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves reducing deforestation, reforestation, and exploring affordable and sustainable alternatives to fuel wood.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

Although much of that timber went to feed growing commercial demand for wood for construction or furniture, the primary cause is local: fuel for home fires.

Globally, deforestation has slowed over the last 10 years, but «wood fuel accounted for about half of the removed wood,» according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, put out by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization earlier this year.

Access to wood fuels for cooking must be considered when formulating policy to deal with food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers who advocate expanding the effort to improve wood - fuel systems and make them more sustainable.

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.

The CHP plant will use biomass, such as wood, for fuel.

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

But the problem can be solved by swapping other fuels and methods for the wood in cooking fires.

That's because engineers must remove one of wood's key components, known as lignin, to get to the sugary cellulose that's used for fuels.

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.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

Another possibility is «energy woods»: that is, the cultivation of fast - growing trees for fuel.

The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel for America's cars.

Haitis need for farmland and timber rapidly deforested the already sparse trees on its side of the island, with disastrous consequences: soil erosion, loss of timber for building and of wood for charcoal fuel, heavier sediment loads in rivers and decreased watershed protection that reduced the potential for hydroelectric power.

Another explanation for Sandgathe and Dibble's findings, she speculates, is that Neanderthals might have had to rely on animal dung, instead of wood, for fuel during cold and relatively treeless periods.

Recent research indicates that unless forests are guaranteed to regrow to carbon parity, production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and preserve fewer species on the landscape during the next several decades.»

Many travellers were unaware, for example, that a tourist can easily consume five times more fuel wood than a local, while toilet paper can take 30 years to decompose above 4000 metres.

The Georgia Forestry Commission reports that each year loggers leave behind some 8 million tons of waste wood, including too - small living trees, within a 75 - mile radius of the new refinery — enough for four of Range Fuels» plants.

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.

Very useful as a substitute for wood fuel in underdeveloped countries.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

Fortunately for the case of using wood for cooking many remote villages are benefitting from solar cooking ovens to reduce reliance on wood as a fuel source.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

-- The term «wood stove or pellet stove» means a wood stove, pellet stove, or fireplace insert that uses wood or pellets for fuel.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

In low and middle - income countries, solid fuels such as dung, charcoal or wood are used for cooking and are common in many households.

Believed to be the world's first alternative jet fuel produced from wood, the fuel meets international ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards, allowing it to be used safely for today's commercial flight.

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

In the United States, wood and wood - derived fuels accounted for nearly 40 million megawatt - hours of electricity generation in 2013, just under 1 percent of the U.S. annual total, according to federal energy data.

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.

«Using computer modeling he developed over 20 years, Jacobson has found that carbonaceous fuel soot emissions (which lead to respiratory illness, heart disease and asthma) have resulted in 1.5 million premature deaths each year, mostly in the developing world where wood and animal dung are used for cooking.

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.

By allowing explicit calculations on wood - litter production, these results potentially enable more explicit modelling of woody tissues in ecosystems worldwide, with implications for the build - up of flammable fuel, nutrient cycling, and understanding of plant growth.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

You are going to need fuel in the form of wood to keep that ember glowing for as long as possible.