Sentences with word «kerosene»

In addition, the replacement of kerosene lamps eliminates a major health and fire hazard.

For example, electricity makes the producers of Kerosene lamp unemployed, but it gives rise to jobs such as telegrapher, bulb maker, etc., etc..

Earth2Tech has the scoop, but this is the gist of it.D.light has begun manufacturing solar - powered portable lanterns which are designed to replace kerosene lanterns in the developing world.

«To this day, many [Kenyans] rely on kerosene lamps and diesel generators, which are neither cost - effective nor environmentally friendly.»

One in three of them still uses kerosene for lighting, which damages lungs and has other serious health effects, while adding to carbon emissions.

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

Any doubts as to whether he could afford this were soon dispelled when it emerged he would save exactly twice that in kerosene costs».

Shabnam's Tip, «The table can be lit with kerosene lanterns.

In India, it is estimated that more than 230 million people do not have access to electricity, so rely on dangerous, fossil - fuel based energy sources such as kerosene lamps.

If the specs are on target, there's no reason why this lantern can't replace kerosene lamps on a wide scale.

She was delivered by kerosene lamp in a government hospital.

Burning agricultural waste, or burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black carbon.

Use kerosene heaters only in well - ventilated areas to remove carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide from combustion.

Lighting may come from kerosene lanterns.

Chukwudi Akasike and Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Tragedy struck at No. 5, Obudu Street, in Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as a newly married man, simply identified as Mr. Alozie was burnt to death while cooking with kerosene stove in his kitchen.

The rocket's fuel, a mix of rocket - grade kerosene known as RP - 1 and liquid oxygen, is highly flammable.

In those days, oil was primarily refined into kerosene or burned in a barely distilled form as bunker fuel in ships.

If it were me, I'd probably put a sticker on the gas tank that said something like «Use Kerosene fuel only»

Iridimi camp administrators have distributed improved wood stoves and kerosene cookers to the refugees, but these devices still rely on scarce or expensive energy sources.

No more leaving your home to charge your phone or dealing with dangerous kerosene at night.

A mixture of two parts of olive oil and one part of kerosene oil, forms a very effective ointment for joint pains.

For example, petroleum - based kerosene replaced whale oil for lighting in the 19th century, and then electricity took its place in the 20th century.

Reaching the poor Solar - powered lanterns are available to rent at a price that is competitive with polluting kerosene lamps.

The anti-graft agency claimed that the N1.9 bn was part of N3.3 bn, which Shagaya allegedly realised through «fraudulent activities in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,» where she allegedly «influenced the fraudulent allocation of Dual Purpose Kerosene to Index Petrolube Africa Ltd., with the aid of the former First Lady, Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan.»

Industrial whaling, once a linchpin of the coastal economy, faded away as whale oil could not compete with petroleum - derived kerosene.

Mr. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, by making Kerosene cheap and universally available as a luminant, did more than Greenpeace will ever do to save the whales.

Several eyewitnesses have testified to the smell of kerosene at the time of the incident and to its presence in puddles of the water that eventually put out the fire.

Those animals regularly exposed to cigarette smoke, flea sprays and other contaminants, including kerosene heaters, are more likely to develop nasal or sinus tumors.

In Ethiopia it's also men, who pour kerosene onto the waste to mask the smell and drink heavily before descending into the pit to dull their senses.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, social entrepreneurs are starting to develop clean energy solutions like solar lanterns — which replace dirty kerosene lamps — and mini-grids powered by clean energy sources.

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.

Musk explained that «the energy cost of methane is the lowest, and it has a slight ISP [specific impulse] advantage over kerosene and doesn't have any of the bad aspects of hydrogen.»

And injecting insulin for type 2 diabetics, though sometimes prescribed, is decried as the wrong approach by others who consider it like pouring kerosene on a fire to put it out.

If any one of them are off, then it won't be the «kerosene killer» that the company hopes it'll be.

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

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.

How about a small startup's innovative solar LED lanterns that eliminate toxic fumes and deadly kerosene fires while creating a ladder out of poverty for their customers.

It is equipped with an electric starter and electric lights, at a time when kerosene fired lights were common.

It was set up to produce kerosene, gasoline, lubricating oil, and oil byproducts.

Eliminating kerosene purchases let customer recoup the price of d.light's least - expensive products in just a few months.

Non-profit groups aiming to replace Africa's deadly kerosene lamps with safe, solar alternatives say their campaign is gaining momentum.

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.

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

Skeptics speculated that the cells had come not from the ice itself but from the 100,000 pounds of kerosene drilling fluid that the Russians kept inside the borehole above Lake Vostok, to keep it from freezing shut.

January 13, 2017 Clean - burning stoves improve health for new mothers in Nigeria In a clinical trial in Nigeria that replaced biomass and kerosene cookstoves with clean - burning ethanol stoves, researchers were able to reduce by two - thirds the risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease in pregnant women.

Everything else is systematically torched by firefighters, whose hoses spout kerosene instead of water.