Sentences with phrase «kerosene lamps on»

Boys had lit the kerosene lamps on the tables, getting ready for dark.

Big, soft pillows and and kerosene lamp on an antique table.

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This sucker could transform lives in so many ways it's not even funny: besides charging economy - altering cellphones and giving children the ability to study after dark, it can help in areas ranging from health (the kerosene lamps currently typically used for night - time lighting are terrible on the lungs) to economics (kerosene can suck up 25 - 30 % of a family budget) to global warming (kerosene = carbon emissions).

Ban Ki - moon, remembering his dependence as a child on a kerosene lamp to do his homework, has championed the first of a new set of global goals, on sustainable energy for all.

When she walked down to the boathouse an hour or so later to get some kerosene oil for the lamp, she saw more soldiers on the pier.

Anything you do on social media needs to be branded with whatever name you write under, or you might as well be in that basement with the kerosene lamp.

Also, the light on the horse looks like it is lit by a kerosene lantern lamp.

Inventor of the automatic technique fumage in which the artist would use the smoke of a kerosene lamp or a candle to create a mark on canvas or paper, which served as the beginning image for a more complete painting.

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

Keep burning dung and hauling water, reading by kerosene lamps, charging cell phones on polluting diesel generators?

They have limited choices when it comes to lighting up their homes, with many relying on candles, torches and, worst of all, kerosene lamps to escape the dark.

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.

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.

Villagers in India who are not yet connected to a grid and who depend on kerosene lamps face a similar cost calculation.

Without electricity families have no clean source of light, leaving millions to rely on expensive and dangerous alternatives such as homemade kerosene lamps.

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.

Previously they relied on kerosene, butter lamps and candles for light.

As we sip Caipirinhas under the soft glow of kerosene lamps, it's easy to let my thoughts drift and lead me to believe I'm on a glamorous Amazonian expedition.

In order to keep the electronics out of landfills, the researchers propose that the batteries be reused where electricity is scarce — in rural communities where kerosene lamps are relied on for lighting.

Just a kerosene lamp and a few candles on a vintage embroidered runner.