Sentences with phrase «kerosene lamps which»

Each solar light eradicates one kerosene lamp which will, over the course of three years, avert an entire tonne of CO2.

Not exact matches

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.

The other two were Sandbag, which buys credits in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Solar Aid which sells solar lights in rural Africa, seeking to replace kerosene lamps.

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.

In addition to providing light after a disaster, it can also be a replacement for kerosene lamps, which contribute to global warming and create unhealthy indoor air conditions.

I led off my remarks by noting how Thaulo's candle harked back to the secretary general's 2011 speech introducing his 2030 energy - access goal, in which he recalled how, as a youth after the Korean War, he had to study by kerosene lamp light until it was time for exams.

• The ascent of the ladder is associated with rising income, and the fuels which are higher up in the ladder tend to be more efficient (for lighting for example, electricity is more than one hundred times more efficient than candles or kerosene lamps).

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.

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

They often use kerosene lamps, which contribute to indoor pollution and have to be refilled with oil regularly.

The shapes and silhouettes of gas lamps, lanterns and chandeliers had been influenced by those of the kerosene -, oil - and candle - lit fixtures that preceded them, which in turn were informed by the fuels they used.