Sentences with phrase «from wood stoves»

The current UN figures for «renewables» includes a major portion from wood stoves, campfires, etc from the less - developed parts of the world, where these practices are major health threats and contribute to forest degradation.

Also keep him away from wood stoves, radiators, barbecue grills, and space heaters.

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.

They can range from a wood stove to a conventional central heating system, and anything in - between.

And we installed a dark slate floor in the front of the structure to capture passive solar heat and to even out the temperatures from the wood stove.

Not exact matches

If you suffer from a short selling season, talk to Alan Trusler, president of Aladdin Steel Products, a $ 12 - million wood - burning - stove manufacturer in Colville, Wash..

I am pretty sure when they revamped back in the day to a oil heating system at my mom's home church, that was a big modern step for them from the wood burning stoves.

We cooked on a wood stove, kept our food in an ice box, and drew water from a well.

Umma would say that in those days (early 80s), she has seen the maids at the Arab houses would have a huge pot outside the house kept on a makeshift stove, with fire from dried date palm or wood and they would stir in once in a while to ensure it doesn't stick.

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.

Place fire - safe barriers around, and at a safe distance from, space heaters, fireplaces and wood stoves.

Now the head of this mountain village in the southwest of China — roughly 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) from the capital Beijing — has installed a stove capable of producing the same heat with less wood at the urging of his environmentally - educated daughter, one of the founding members of a club called Earth Helpers at the local middle school.

The project is testing three approaches: wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced from waste; and solar cookers.

But the smoke is not much different from that of a wood - burning stove — a mixture of carbon dioxide and water, with about 10 percent particulate matter.

«Controls of short - lived climate pollutants also become more important, especially methane from agriculture and soot from diesel transport and wood stoves.»

Another irritant found indoors is the smoke from fireplaces and wood stoves.

Pollution from vehicle exhaust, power plants, wood stoves, and other sources contain tiny particles that can also contribute to lung cancer.

These stoves are used in Send a Cow training in African countries as they use less wood and take smoke away from the cook.

Charles from Uganda makes stoves like these to reduce his use of fuel wood from forests (they use 1/3 of the wood that an open fire needs) and keep his kitchen area safe for his children.

How to Catch a Frog by Heather Ross Heather Ross's parents moved to rural Vermont in the 1970s, and she and her twin sister lived in a remote, freezing, un-insulated house, yankig the cat from under the wood stove to shove him into their bed as a reluctant hot water bottle.

Either way, you may have to throw it in the «wood burning stove», learn from the mistakes and get back to writing a better draft.

A team from the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute paid a visit to Cookswell Jikos, a small Kenyan owned hybrid business that provides quality charcoal and wood fueled stoves to the market, to discover how the business is providing sustainable solutions to the challenges facing the charcoal industry in Kenya.

In another, a perforated metal screen rescued from the laundry room of a defunct seniors» residence was disguised as a surprisingly modern backdrop for a wood stove.

Common allergen that can trigger an attack include smoke (from tobacco, fireplaces or wood stoves), household cleaners, air fresheners or deodorizers, perfumes, air pollution, airborne pollen, mold spores, pesticides and fertilizer, and cat litter particles.

Cats love warmth, whether it comes from a fireplace, wood stove or mother nature, providing your cat with an area to lap up the rays or soak up the heat source of your home will put them in a happy mood.

Smoke, like anything from your wood burning stove shouldn't leak and should go up the flue.

Home - style meals are cooked over a wood burning stove or open grill - fresh - squeezed orange juice and lemonade from a private grove of 750 citrus trees and many of the vegetables are hand picked daily from the garden.

An old wood burning stove fuelled with well seasoned firewood and pinecones gathered from the garden provides welcome warmth — even in the summer months the nights are cool in this mountainous region.

There is a turquoise little sofa to chill out on with something to read, a 2 - seater dining table crafted from recycled wood that was taken from the traditional Jukung fisherman boats and the open kitchen is equipped with everything needed, including a stove, water boiler, microwave and a fridge.

With its wood burning stove fuelled with wood from the estate, Wild Eyedeer can be warm and cosy, whilst being extremely spacious providing a comfortable, light, airy and well - equipped stay.

Consisting of a series of self - contained beachfront bungalows on President Channel, on the west side of Orcas Island but just a short drive from the main town of Eastsound, the laid - back West Beach Resort (West Beach Rd., 877-937-8224) has units directly on the beach or on a hillside just steps away - each has one or two bedrooms, a wood - burning stove, a deck, and a full kitchen.

It has many comfortable features such as a log burning stove, (all the kindling and wood will be supplied free of charge from the estate), a beautiful open plan living space with designer kitchen, breakfast bar, dining area, baby grand piano and luxury appointed shower room.

A three - to seven - minute walk uphill from your cabin leads you to the dining room, a modern shower facility, and our historic log lodge with an inviting wood stove, cozy seating, library, and unparalleled views.

Located just a mile from Attitash Mountain and 5 miles from Story Land, the townhouse sleeps 7 people and offers an open living area with cable TV and comfortable couches around a wood - burning stove.

Offering additional eco-friendly features such as wood - burning stoves and organically grown herbs available from the garden, this green hostel is also perfectly placed for visits to the nearby Otway Rainforest and local waterfalls.

The property itself provides high quality accommodation with stone floors and under - floor heating, a delightful farmhouse kitchen with access from the lovely sitting room, as well as a wood - burning stove and a wonderful patio garden.

Using candles for light, a wood stove to cook every meal on, and fresh water from a nearby frozen river, Tinja says they have everything they need to live happily.

The idea came about, explains gallery founder and director Vito Schnabel, in December 2015 when Ruby presented two large - scale, functioning wood - burning stoves in a garden at the Kulm Hotel, located across the street from the gallery.

She raised some of her food, carried the water she used for bathing and cooking from a nearby well, collected rainwater from her roof for washing, composted her waste and split wood for her wood stove.

Most are made from compressed sawdust and other wood waste, though some stoves can also take wood, recycled paper waste, and biomass pellets.»

Pellet stoves can be a greener alternative to traditional wood stoves and fireplaces: «Pellet stoves pollute so little that they don't require certification from the EPA, they create no creosote (chimney fire fodder), and fall well within clean air standards.

The government is offering incentives ranging from $ 300 to $ 900 to replace old polluting wood stoves and fireplaces with cleaner - burning modern models.

A round wood stove hangs from the ceiling.

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.

Here in Bergen, Norway we have the discussion of pollution from old wood stoves every cold winter as easily get «inversion» problems due to the city being between several mountains and it easily builds up as a good old smog lid on the city.

For five weeks we sampled air from the roof of the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center in hope of measuring air parcels contaminated with smoke from residential wood stoves.

The house is 80 % (if not more) solar - powered; we have a super clean wood - burning stove for heat and an alcohol - burning stove for cooking; we ate salad tonight from our wee garden.

The biggest obstacle to adding DHW systems to wood stoves is that EPA emissions certification virtually eliminates the possibility of taking heat directly from the stove.

(Sec. 218) Requires the EPA Administrator to establish a program to assist in the replacement of wood stoves or pellet stoves that do not meet specified standards of performance by: (1) requiring such stoves to meet specified performance standards; (2) requiring replaced stoves to be destroyed and recycled and prohibiting such stoves from being sold or returned into active service; (3) providing funds to eligible entities to replace stoves.

But this figure reaches from 36 % for traditional wood stoves to about 80 % for modern wood pellet stoves for residential use.