Sentences with phrase «polluting kerosene»

Reaching the poor Solar - powered lanterns are available to rent at a price that is competitive with polluting kerosene lamps.

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This, he said, was not beneficial for Nigeria economically and health-wise, as data at the disposal of government showed that thousands of women and children had died as a result of diseases caused by firewood and kerosene polluted air.

Kerosene lamps also pollute the air, and the fuel poses a poisoning hazard, especially to children.

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

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

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.

Such systems will power two, three, or four small appliances or lights and are widely used in homes and shops in lieu of polluting and increasingly costly kerosene lamps.

A new (ish) start - up hopes to replace these kerosene lanterns with something less polluting.

Once charged the light will last six hours, giving rural communities an alternative to expensive, polluting and unhealthy kerosene, and allowing people to work or study past dusk, communicate with the outside world, and freeing up cash for school fees or agricultural inputs.

Worse it comes from heavily polluting and dangerous kerosene which can cost as much as 25 to 30 percent of a family's income.

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.