Sentences with phrase «from kerosene»

The programme will enable the country to reduce the need for conventional electrical grid extension displacing carbon emissions from kerosene and candles.

To reduce aviation's role in global warming, airline need to switch from kerosene to hydrogen.

Affordable and clean energy: Switching from kerosene to solar lighting saves an average of 100 liters of kerosene per year Spending on fire wood is cut by 40 %.

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

Lighting may come from kerosene lanterns.

Not exact matches

Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

«The impact investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies will help us reach our goal of providing clean energy to homes, schools and local businesses, replacing toxic kerosene lamps everywhere we work.

Between them and the B.C. coast, a lattice of proposed pipelines pumping crude from tar sands to coast, and pumping back the imported kerosene - like condensate needed to process the tar sands.

Much of the kerosene that comes from simple crude distillation towers needs to be further fixed and hydrotreated, he said.

U.S. refinery and blender net production of kerosene - type jet fuel reached a record 1.7 million barrels per day in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, up 7 percent from two years ago.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product.

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).

The Federal Government has officially announced the removal of subsidy on Household Kerosene (HHK) thereby hiking the price to N83 per litre from its former price of N50 per litre.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

«I went to buy kerosene and I saw some women from outside the state carrying big cans and buying the product in large quantity.

The EFCC claimed that the N3.3 billion was realised from Shagaya's «alleged fraudulent activities in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), where she allegedly influenced an allocation of Dual Purpose kerosene to a company, Index Petrolube Africa Ltd., with the aid of the former First Lady,

In fact, the alternative jet fuel — known as synthetic paraffinated kerosenes — has as good or better qualities than Jet A refined from petroleum: It does not freeze at high - altitude temperatures, delivers the same or more power to the engines, and is lighter, as well.

«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.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

But in the nine years before Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 in Pennsylvania and made kerosene ubiquitous, at least five - sixths of the whale oil — lighting market had already been lost to competing products made from coal.

Kerosene and liquid oxygen travel from the tanks above, down through a pipe at the center.

Mother ship Eve's jet engines will run on kerosene initially but are also capable of running on butanol, a biofuel that can be made from algae.

A diagram, top, and photograph show uranium clusters being extracted upward from an aqueous solution into a kerosene solution.

According to the researchers, the choice of fuel was determined by its prevalence: the vast majority of airlines operate on kerosene derived from petroleum.

It is actually chemically the same fuel as that which is made from plants — synthetic paraffinic kerosene.

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.

The mobile chemical pilot plant that can be used decentrally produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Researchers from the US and China have determined that a duckweed biorefinery producing a range of gasoline, diesel and kerosene products can be economically competitive with petroleum - based processes, even in some cases without environmental legislation that penalizes greenhouse gas emissions.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

I have a couple of 10 Litre steel jerrycans which I used for draining kerosene (UN1223 28sec burning oil) from a tank.

Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older woman's frantic plea to find a person - a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room.

She lit the kerosene lantern she'd swiped from Brian's cabin before heading down the river.

Goodbye to ants Banish ants from your pet's food dish by wiping the floor under and around it with a cloth dipped in kerosene.

Remember that birds are sensitive to smoke and fumes that can come from wood, gas or kerosene heaters.

The planes will use biokerosene, a fuel derived from used frying oil, which has to be tested to meet the same technical specifications as traditional kerosene.

These indications were visible gas liberations from permafrost drill cores from depths less than 150 m when thawing in kerosene or warm water.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

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.

With a solar light, families tell us they save money from reduced spending on lighting alternatives like kerosene, candles, and battery torches.

Furler hopes to get the oil industry involved in replacing the current industrial process where kerosene is made in large oil refineries by distilling it from oil.

We transitioned away from whale oil after discovering much more abundant and useful petroleum - derived kerosene, not because we were running out of whales.

With the inordinate quantities of time now available to the average mug in post-manufacturing-Australia, workshops for new learning could abound, what do you want to learn; How To Knit A Mud Brick Macramé Skivvy, Build Your Dream Hut From Sea - Weed And Snot, How To Prevent Post Birth Waste by Eating Your Own Placenta, Catch and Cook Your Own Slugs Using Only a Hangman's Noose and Some Stolen Kerosene, the options are endless.

In the pages that follow we share some of the stories that have both inspired us and helped us learn why these decisions are being made, and just how important it is that we continue moving towards our goal to eradicate the kerosene lamp from Africa by 2020.

Families move from burning kerosene for light to clean, sustainable solar lights for their homes.

These overlooked, shorter - term pollutants — mostly from burning wood and kerosene and from driving trucks and cars — cause more localized warming than once thought, the authors of the report say.They contend there should be a greater effort to attack this type of pollution for faster results.For decades, scientists have concentrated on carbon dioxide, the most damaging greenhouse gas because it lingers in the atmosphere for decades.

Demand for cleaner fuels from airlines has dropped as the price of kerosene, which is burned in plane engines, has more than halved since June 2014.

The aim is to enable communities (rural and urban) to preserve more trees, burn less kerosene, and reduce poisonous fumes inside their homes (from cooking and heating).

Until that happens, however, certain spacecraft will still rely on RP - 1, a dense, kerosene - like propellant made from crude oil.

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.

As there is no feasible technological solution to emissions from aviation — essentially, they have to burn kerosene to stay in the air — we must consider limiting the growth of the industry beginning with a moratorium on airport expansions.