Sentences with phrase «on kerosene»

Lepus, Looks like you got me there on the kerosene calculations (darn pesky zeros).

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India, and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

The estimated 80 % of Kenyans that are not on a grid rely solely on kerosene to light their homes.

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

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

SkyPower and Plan International plan to distribute two million home solar kits over a five - year period, with an aim to reduce reliance on kerosene.

If this is done, not only will India save on huge subsidies given on kerosene, but emissions polluting the atmosphere will also be eliminated.

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India (http://selco-india.com/), and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

E. coli's single - celled life is «like a self - building, self - multiplying, self - healing race car that can run on kerosene [or] Coca - Cola,» says Andreas Wagner (Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates).

According to the researchers, the choice of fuel was determined by its prevalence: the vast majority of airlines operate on kerosene derived from petroleum.

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.

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.

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

One solar - powered Little Sun light lasts for two to three years before needing a battery replacement, and can save households up to 90 % over three years compared to what they would have spent on kerosene.

Not exact matches

The first stage used Rocket Propellant - 1, a form of kerosene similar to jet fuel, while the second and third stages relied on liquid hydrogen for fuel.

It tipped over, spilling the burning kerosene on the floor.

Ultra-low sulfur diesel futures, used as a proxy for the jet and kerosene markets, reached $ 2.1431 a gallon on Jan. 26 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since Feb. 27, 2015; it last settled at $ 2.0927.

Saudi Arabia will be a litmus test — it raised some gasoline prices by 66 % and slashed subsidies on gas, diesel, kerosene, electricity and water.

The potential for using petroleum - based solvents such as gasoline and kerosene was discovered in the mid-19th century by French dye - works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly, who noticed that his tablecloth became cleaner after his maid spilled kerosene on it.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product.

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).

The bureau will also be releasing monthly reports on FACC disbursements, consumer price index and inflation reports as well as price watch on diesel, petrol and kerosene.

According to the calendar analysed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the bureau will release data on consumer price index and inflation, price watch on diesel, petrol and kerosene.

The Federal Government has officially announced the removal of subsidy on Household Kerosene (HHK) thereby hiking the price to N83 per litre from its former price of N50 per litre.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

Because they burn kerosene, they are far safer and cheaper to operate than the hydrogen engines used on the Saturn V.

«We no longer use the contract completions crews that used very small trace amounts of kerosene and a hydrocarbon distillate on five wells more than three years ago,» said John Christiansen, director of external communications at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the companies listed in the report.

«The poorest people, who can only afford kerosene for lighting their homes and charcoal for cooking, spend 30 percent of their income on energy,» Bergman observes.

While most rockets have three or four stages, this one has just two, and it runs on refined kerosene that costs less per gallon than regular unleaded at a California gas station.

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

To date, biomass - derived synthetic paraffinic kerosenes (SPK) have required blending with petroleum feedstocks on a 50 % basis to... Read more →

A direct descendent of the R - 7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), the Soyuz - FG comprises a central «core» and four tapering, strap - on boosters, fueled by liquid oxygen and a highly refined form of rocket - grade kerosene, known as «RP - 1.»

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.

If it were me, I'd probably put a sticker on the gas tank that said something like «Use Kerosene fuel only»

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

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.

The scraps of cut - off fabric that usually line the bottom are floating in kerosene - rippled water, the emeralds and sapphires of a peacock's tail flashing on its moonlit surface.

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Later that evening, when the hot heavy night had descended, someone — it is not clear who — splashed kerosene on the doors of the pawnshop and took a match to it.

In an effort to bring on uterine contractions, she has endangered her own life by drinking drugs such as castor oil and quinine, or poisons such as kerosene.

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.

Some are non-electric and run on gas or kerosene, which also produces gases in the air that could kill your feathered friend.

Though there was no electricity after dark, a flickering kerosene lantern was placed on our porch each night.

«They found equipment such as a chainsaw, a kerosene jerry can, a lighter and a cell phone,» Karhutla Riau task force deputy commander Edwar Sanger said as quoted by Antara in Pekanbaru on Saturday.

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.