Sentences with phrase «kerosene fires»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unless you're a Wall Street trader or a CNBC fanatic, you're bound to learn something new about how unregulated capitalism set itself on fire less than a decade ago — and how the banking industry has retained its tight grip on both the kerosene and the matches.

A kerosene heater can cause a fire, as well.

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.

Affordable and clean energy: Switching from kerosene to solar lighting saves an average of 100 liters of kerosene per year Spending on fire wood is cut by 40 %.

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 target market is the billions of people around the world without access to electricity, who use kerosene lamps or camp fires for light and, also, have virtually no access to news, except for battery - operated radios (when they can afford batteries).

We also wanted to decrease fire accidents by replacing kerosene and candles as the main source of lighting.

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

I've regularly questioned whether lawyers have business sense, and I guess time will tell whether the strategy of throwing kerosene on the fire is the right approach to this development.

A kerosene heater can cause a fire, as well.