Sentences with phrase «making kerosene»

Mr. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, by making Kerosene cheap and universally available as a luminant, did more than Greenpeace will ever do to save the whales.

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.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor to create syngas.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Executive Secretary of the PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, who made the announcement, said the reduction in the price of the commodity was due to an implementation of the revised components of the Petroleum Products Pricing Template for PMS and household kerosene.

Mother ship Eve's jet engines will run on kerosene initially but are also capable of running on butanol, a biofuel that can be made from algae.

It is actually chemically the same fuel as that which is made from plants — synthetic paraffinic kerosene.

Making sure roaches wouldn't eat your kite by putting kerosene in the paste.

Furler hopes to get the oil industry involved in replacing the current industrial process where kerosene is made in large oil refineries by distilling it from oil.

In the pages that follow we share some of the stories that have both inspired us and helped us learn why these decisions are being made, and just how important it is that we continue moving towards our goal to eradicate the kerosene lamp from Africa by 2020.

Anyway, taking Africa as an example, off - grid electricity (thanks to PV) is making significant in - roads mostly without government «assistance» particularly in East Africa where, in the first instance it is displacing kerosene lamps.

Until that happens, however, certain spacecraft will still rely on RP - 1, a dense, kerosene - like propellant made from crude oil.

Airports and carriers have invested countless millions in tanks, pipelines, and under - tarmac fuel delivery, so jet biofuels must be compatible with petroleum - based kerosene, able to mix with the existing fuel supply, and be used interchangeably in existing aircraft — which makes them «drop - in fuels» in the argot of aviation experts.

«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.»

Aisa Mijeno, an engineering professor who worked for years with Greenpeace Philippines, noticed during her work there that many indigenous people in the over - 7,000 islands that make up the country were using kerosene lamps exclusively for lighting.

John D Rockefeller saved the whales by making lots of kerosene and then by ruthlessly cutting the price of kerosene.