Those solid
household fuels produce health - damaging indoor pollution that contributes to about four million premature deaths a year, most of them women and children.
Not exact matches
Even if
fuels from agricultural waste, wood, grasses and
household trash are the greenest transportation option available, manufacturers have yet to
produce them with any commercial success.
These fine particles
produced by the incomplete combustion of
fuel have alarming impacts at all scales: the global, the regional, the
household, an individual's lungs.
After all, the critics say, lower - income
households spend a higher percentage of their budgets on energy than rich ones do, and the price of energy
produced from carbon - intensive
fuels is likely to rise.
When you factor in energy use and emissions along the full
fuel cycle,
households with natural gas versus all - electric appliances
produce 37 percent lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Black carbon (BC) emissions from
household cookstoves consuming solid
fuel produce approximately 25 percent of total anthropogenic BC emissions.
Most of the world's deadliest pollution is concentrated in the Third World, largely among poor
households which have little or no access to electricity
produced by fossil -
fuel power.