Sentences with phrase «of wood fuel»

Charcoal is mostly used in urban centers while firewood is the predominant form of wood fuel used in rural areas.

«Before policy makers can integrate energy considerations into food security interventions, it is necessary to consider the state of wood fuel research and how it might be expanded to better serve social needs,» Mendum said.

Despite those efforts, the use of wood fuels is rising due to population growth and emerging urbanization trends, the researchers point out.

The installations reference Rush's interest in the history of folk ceramics, the process of wood fuelled ceramic firing and complexities of collaboration, collecting and curation.

Not exact matches

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

Over two billion people rely on wood for household fuel, for example, and the supply for seventy percent of them is insecure.

Besides the burning of wood for fuel, forest fires add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

A 1980 study by the World Bank of West African countries showed that the demand for wood for fuel exceeded the estimated sustainable yields of forests in eleven of the thirteen countries surveyed.

But the largest contribution to restoring the carbon balance will be a reduction in world population since every person who lives makes a contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by his or her use of the products of industry or by burning wood for fuel.

It spoke to us because of the saloon girl and says «fuel the fire» on it, which is a play on our wood fire grill, so we framed it and put it on the wall.

The chef's rustic kitchen — with its wood - fueled flames and cast - iron grills and griddles — looks like a set - up straight out of Colonial Williamsburg.

Pellet grills are fueled by small wood pellets (think rabbit food about 1 / 4 - inch in diameter) that are available in a variety of flavors.

And when you consider smoking foods, think of the wood as a spice to add flavor instead of just being a fuel.

Having limited education and no skills she was forced to begin the job of carrying fuel wood.

A subsequent visit to Ethiopia brought us face - to - face with women like Mulu, burdened with bundles of fuel wood.

We met a group of former fuel wood carriers who had been taught to weave scarves; however, with a very limited market, they weren't selling enough to be able to support their families.

The faces of the women fuel wood carriers and their children were imprinted on our hearts and left us forever changed — and committed!

According to the US Fire Administration, more than one - third of Americans use fireplaces, wood stoves or other fuel fired appliances to heat their homes.

Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Even in the Early Days of epolitics.com, back when we powered the servers with wood, coal and fuel - grade mummies, plenty of people were already predicting the demise of email as a marketing / communications tool.

Ghana's forests, which once covered a third of its 24 - million - hectare landmass, have been degraded at an alarming rate by excessive and often illegal logging, slash - and - burn agriculture, mining and quarrying, and fuel wood collection.

Five of the six families involved in the pilot project received a multi-fuel burning stove, with waste wood fuel as the primary heat source.

For a tropical country like Ghana, the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves reducing deforestation, reforestation, and exploring affordable and sustainable alternatives to fuel wood.

This dual fuel gas fireplace has 2 rows of flames so your fire will look fuller and more like a wood fire.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

But by 1900, production had reached 60 million barrels annually as world markets replaced wood and whale oil with petroleum and coal as the fuels of choice.

There are a host of other factors surrounding wood - fuel energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood, Mendum said.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

Although much of that timber went to feed growing commercial demand for wood for construction or furniture, the primary cause is local: fuel for home fires.

Cookstove design depends on what food items are being cooked, what types of wood or other fuel is available and general customer acceptance.

Globally, deforestation has slowed over the last 10 years, but «wood fuel accounted for about half of the removed wood,» according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, put out by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization earlier this year.

In 2005, wood fuel consumption represented about 73 and 90 percent of wood removals in Asia and Africa, respectively.

LIMING, CHINA — Fourteen - year - old Feng Yu's parents used to have to carry as much as 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of wood daily to fuel the cooking stove in their kitchen.

By the mid-1800s, coal gas and solid coke had replaced candles, animal oils, and wood as the most important sources of light, heat, and cooking fuel in many European and American cities.

Scientists are turning agricultural leftovers, wood and fast - growing grasses into a huge variety of biofuels — even jet fuel.

Jacobson, the study's author, noted that the study also separated the effects of black carbon produced by burning fossil fuels and that produced by biofuels like wood or dung.

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

That's because engineers must remove one of wood's key components, known as lignin, to get to the sugary cellulose that's used for fuels.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

«In the U.S. we tend to build our houses out of fuel [wood].

Another possibility is «energy woods»: that is, the cultivation of fast - growing trees for fuel.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Haitis need for farmland and timber rapidly deforested the already sparse trees on its side of the island, with disastrous consequences: soil erosion, loss of timber for building and of wood for charcoal fuel, heavier sediment loads in rivers and decreased watershed protection that reduced the potential for hydroelectric power.

Another explanation for Sandgathe and Dibble's findings, she speculates, is that Neanderthals might have had to rely on animal dung, instead of wood, for fuel during cold and relatively treeless periods.

Yet RangeFuels» fancy new ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.

Recent research indicates that unless forests are guaranteed to regrow to carbon parity, production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and preserve fewer species on the landscape during the next several decades.»

It was the height of the last ice age, and survival required desperate measures — especially from those in Eurasia, where food and wood fuel ran low.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

The Georgia Forestry Commission reports that each year loggers leave behind some 8 million tons of waste wood, including too - small living trees, within a 75 - mile radius of the new refinery — enough for four of Range Fuels» plants.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.