Sentences with phrase «kerosene at»

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

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.

Not exact matches

As a clean, renewable alternative to dirty kerosene lamps and diesel generators, Matthews, now the founder of Uncharted Play based in Harlem in New York City, invented a groundbreaking rotational energy harnessing and generating soccer ball, simply called SOCCKET — all at the age of 19.

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.

Ultra-low sulfur diesel futures, used as a proxy for the jet and kerosene markets, reached $ 2.1431 a gallon on Jan. 26 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since Feb. 27, 2015; it last settled at $ 2.0927.

Curiously, the hike in the price of kerosene came at a time when the price of crude oil had dropped to record low, with the price of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number of countries, like the United States.

This, he said, was not beneficial for Nigeria economically and health-wise, as data at the disposal of government showed that thousands of women and children had died as a result of diseases caused by firewood and kerosene polluted air.

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.

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.

He, like many of his neighbors in rural areas with no electricity access at all, prefers to use cheaper wood, coal and kerosene for his own cooking and lighting.

Kerosene lamps provide a primary light source in many households — at a cost to both health and wealth.

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.

In the developing world, the 10 watts it produces can light a room at night by electricity rather than expensive and dangerous kerosene.

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.

«We no longer use the contract completions crews that used very small trace amounts of kerosene and a hydrocarbon distillate on five wells more than three years ago,» said John Christiansen, director of external communications at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the companies listed in the report.

The data obtained at the Department of Aerophysics and Space Research allows for validating kinetic models of the burning of kerosene, which is a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons.

The process, described in the January 28 Nature (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group), is perfect for creating hydrocarbons with at least 12 carbon atoms in them — besides diesel, the group includes jet fuel (kerosene).

While most rockets have three or four stages, this one has just two, and it runs on refined kerosene that costs less per gallon than regular unleaded at a California gas station.

At this age of intense juvenile curiosity, I noticed that my parents were using a mysterious liquid (kerosene) to create light.

At the beginning of the movie, Deadpool tries to commit suicide by igniting a half - dozen barrels of kerosene.

A one - off prototype belonging to the Le Mans Museum, it is powered by a single - rotor kerosene - fuelled turbine said to deliver 100bhp at 25,000 rpm.

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

Nowhere else is the danger greater than at a modern airport with thousands of travellers and highly flammable kerosene.

Nearby, large salad bowls of oil paint mixed with safflower oil, kerosene and water stood at the ready, having achieved a frothy consistency.

Kerosene lamps only, so everybody goes to bed when the sun sets at seven, and there is nothing to do.

In a world where two billion people still squint by the light of a kerosene lamp (at best) at night, any kind of electrical illumination is a gift beyond measure.

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.

The economics of this off - grid business model rely on what it provides being affordable to poor households, as well as offering an improvement on the energy services they currently have (often kerosene or candle lighting, plus payments to local businesses for charging mobile phones) at a lower cost.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

According to the SOLAR - JET Project Coordinator at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Andreas Sizmann, a solar reactor with a 1 square kilometer heliostat field could generate 20,000 litres of kerosene a day.

Practically speaking it means not being able to keep the lights on (whether electric lights, kerosene lamps, candles etc.) preventing productive industry and studying at night, it means not being able to boil and purify contaminated water, it means cooking food to the bare minimum and not taking full advantage of potential nutrients, it means not being able to preserve food through refrigeration or dehydration.

As a child, growing up on the East Coast of the U.S. and spending nearly every summer day at the same Atlantic beach, I remember when «beach tar» was ubiquitous (after a day at the beach, you had to use kerosene to get the black goo off your feet).

At refineries, crude oil is processed into different kinds of fuel, including gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel, kerosene, and lubricating oil.

Millions of people in Nicaragua and Nepal live without electricity and rely on harmful, polluting alternatives like diesel and gas generators, kerosene lamps, and candles to see at night.

In one year a kerosene lamp burns nearly 20 gallons of kerosene, which at $ 3 a gallon means $ 60 per lamp.

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.

If some sort of micro-credit system could be created for people to purchase them and pay back the money at a rate similar to that which they would be paying for kerosene then perhaps products such as this can have a real quality - of - life impact for the world's poorest people.

The image shown is of a woman cooking at night with a pump kerosene stove... a generic reminder that the often praised solar cooker is of little help for the evening meal.

Solar - Powered Lanterns The first is through solar - powered lanterns that are rented out at rates that are competitive with the cost of the kerosene that previously powered their lanterns.

The company also states that the lantern is at least four times brighter than a kerosene lantern, so users aren't giving up lighting quality for off - grid charging capabilities.

«We believe the exceptional quality of the Kiran lantern, delivered at a low and affordable price, will make it a serious competitor to kerosene and other fuel - based lighting in every rural market.»

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.

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