Sentences with phrase «kerosene cookers»

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.

She points to forensic evidence which indicates that the fire in the train was most likely caused by a kerosene cooking stove carried by one the Hindu pilgrims.

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There is an apparent anxiety and expression of displeasure by the residents of Osun, as kerosene, which is the major cooking material now sells for N300...

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

The scarcity of kerosene, used by millions of largely poor Nigerians for cooking, has hit major cities causing huge increase in price.

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.

«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.

«The poorest people, who can only afford kerosene for lighting their homes and charcoal for cooking, spend 30 percent of their income on energy,» Bergman observes.

Nights are lit by the glow of cooking fires and kerosene lamps, or, when it's clear, the natural light of the moon and the stars.

But something has to give, according to nearly everyone immersed in the energy challenge facing a world heading toward 9 billion people — in which more than 2 billion people today still have no real energy options except guttering kerosene lamps and wood or dung cooking fires.

Gita Devi cooked dinner on a small wood - fueled fire by the light of a small can of kerosene in the courtyard of her home in the village of Chakai Haat in the state of Bihar.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

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.

There has been some progress: since 2000, the number of people in developing countries with access to clean cooking — principally liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and electricity, has grown by 60 %, and the number of people cooking with coal and kerosene has more than halved.

Domestic refers to residential and commercial fossil and biofuel burning (e.g. cook stoves, kerosene, heating oil, etc).

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.

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.

«The outcome of the study indicates that per unit of energy delivered to the cooking pot, the Safi ethanol stove reduces the climate impact associated with black and organic carbon by 91 % compared to the kerosene stove and by 83 % compared to the charcoal stove,» says Olivier Lefebvre, Founder of Climate Solutions Consulting.

A major source is the primitive cook stoves used all over the developing world that burn wood, charcoal or kerosene.

Indoor pollution — caused by burning a fire inside your house, cabin, hut or tent to cook and keep warm — was a deadly global problem until the late 19th century when cheap kerosene, a fossil fuel byproduct, became available in America and Europe.

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).

And without access to electricity kerosene is often the fuel of choice for both cooking and illumination.

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.

In developing countries the Soccket is able to give families a power source for lighting and cooking in place of kerosene lamps and wood - burning stoves that cause indoor pollution and numerous health problems for those that use them.

Majority of this people depend on wood fuel for cooking and kerosene lanterns for lighting.

Just last month, research by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed that pneumonia has killed more Kenyans that malaria in the past year, and that people who use kerosene, animal waste, charcoal and wood fuel for lighting and cooking — especially in rural Kenya — are more likely to die from pneumonia [1].

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.

3.8 million people a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels and kerosene for cooking.

In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass, kerosene fuels and coal.

You cook with kerosene.