Sentences with phrase «for kerosene lamps»

In addition to providing light after a disaster, it can also be a replacement for kerosene lamps, which contribute to global warming and create unhealthy indoor air conditions.

Not exact matches

The company works with local entrepreneurs to sell its lamps to households where electricity is scarce or unavailable, at prices that are affordable to families currently using costly and toxic kerosene for their lighting.

This sucker could transform lives in so many ways it's not even funny: besides charging economy - altering cellphones and giving children the ability to study after dark, it can help in areas ranging from health (the kerosene lamps currently typically used for night - time lighting are terrible on the lungs) to economics (kerosene can suck up 25 - 30 % of a family budget) to global warming (kerosene = carbon emissions).

Ban Ki - moon, remembering his dependence as a child on a kerosene lamp to do his homework, has championed the first of a new set of global goals, on sustainable energy for all.

The materials included 20,000 ballot boxes, ballot papers, kerosene lamps and instruction booklets for polling officials.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Boys had lit the kerosene lamps on the tables, getting ready for dark.

When she walked down to the boathouse an hour or so later to get some kerosene oil for the lamp, she saw more soldiers on the pier.

Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out.

Inventor of the automatic technique fumage in which the artist would use the smoke of a kerosene lamp or a candle to create a mark on canvas or paper, which served as the beginning image for a more complete painting.

I led off my remarks by noting how Thaulo's candle harked back to the secretary general's 2011 speech introducing his 2030 energy - access goal, in which he recalled how, as a youth after the Korean War, he had to study by kerosene lamp light until it was time for exams.

• The ascent of the ladder is associated with rising income, and the fuels which are higher up in the ladder tend to be more efficient (for lighting for example, electricity is more than one hundred times more efficient than candles or kerosene lamps).

So they use kerosene lamps, and kerosene is just a terrible way to provide light for a lot of reasons, one being that, for many people, kerosene costs a significant part of their income.

Sprague said she was still able to deliver to customers, including supplying kerosene for lamps portable stoves and some home heating devices, for now.

The only «non-green» energy used was a bit of kerosene for the kitchen lamp, and petrol for a small Ford utility.

Emissions include kerosene and other fuel lamps, from IEA, Light's Labour's Lost: Policies for Energy - Efficient Lighting (Paris: 2006), pp. 201 — 02; DOE, EIA, International Petroleum Monthly, at www.eia.doe.gov/ipm/supply.html, updated 13 April 2009.

The target market is the billions of people around the world without access to electricity, who use kerosene lamps or camp fires for light and, also, have virtually no access to news, except for battery - operated radios (when they can afford batteries).

A solar lighting system costs in the range of 1 - 2 months of kerosene for an indoor lamp.

Previously they relied on kerosene, butter lamps and candles for light.

In developing countries the Soccket is able to give families a power source for lighting and cooking in place of kerosene lamps and wood - burning stoves that cause indoor pollution and numerous health problems for those that use them.

D.Light has been aiming to wipe kerosene lamps from the face of the planet for awhile now, and they might have just come out with something that could do the trick.

Aisa Mijeno, an engineering professor who worked for years with Greenpeace Philippines, noticed during her work there that many indigenous people in the over - 7,000 islands that make up the country were using kerosene lamps exclusively for lighting.

In order to keep the electronics out of landfills, the researchers propose that the batteries be reused where electricity is scarce — in rural communities where kerosene lamps are relied on for lighting.

The lack of access to electricity for 1 billion people (many of whom then use kerosene lamps for lighting) exposes households to very high levels of fine particulate matter.