Sentences with phrase «from coal stoves»

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

Not exact matches

The «pits» were some little distance from the mansion, and were half filled with red - hot coals of oak and hickory wood, over which the flesh of whole dressed beef, mutton, and shoats were slowly roasting, lying on a grate made of split staves of oak or hickory wood.

«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.

Meanwhile, China obtains roughly three - quarters of its electricity from coal, meaning the air in Beijing and other cities is thick with sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide spewed from power plants and coal - burning stoves.

The parent compounds involved in this research are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, formed naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal - fired power plant.

The measures include stemming methane leaks from coal mines or landfills and stopping black carbon pollution from primitive stoves and diesel construction equipment.

When atmospheric scientist Christine Wiedinmyer first went to Ghana in 2011 to investigate air pollution produced by burning different materials — from crop stubble to coal used in stoves — she noticed an unexpected potential source: burning piles of trash.

All around me a chorus of celebratory noises fills the void: the simmering pop of the coals in the stove, the nautical creak of the whole wooden cabinet, and a faint, high - pitched cheeping from beyond the windows that sounds almost like baby birds.

Both units have heaters and are warmed by a coal stove chimney from the shops below.

The efforts to reduce air pollution in China range from the seemingly minor — asking residents to refrain from using coal stoves and furnaces in their homes — to the massive — scaling back steel production capacity by an additional 50 million tons.

At present, an estimated 2.8 million people die prematurely each year because of the smoky environments caused by burning solid biomass in inefficient stoves or from combustion of kerosene or coal for cooking.

When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated by your ancestors, take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into coal stove retro.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

A recent paper by Dr. Tami Bond and colleagues finds that carbon aerosols — particulates released into that atmosphere from a variety of human activities including diesel engines, open cook stoves, poorly filtered coal burning, and open burning, etc. — have played a much larger role in impacting the climate than has been previously recognized (and included in climate models).

This contrasts very strongly with (for example) limiting *** black carbon *** emissions, e.g., from diesel vehicles and residential coal and wood stoves.

Wood will burn on a bed of ash, but coals need air entering from beneath, so a multifuel stove has a grate that adjusts to suit the fuel.