Sentences with phrase «use kerosene lamps»

The lack of access to electricity for 1 billion people (many of whom then use kerosene lamps for lighting) exposes households to very high levels of fine particulate matter.

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

The target market is the billions of people around the world without access to electricity, who use kerosene lamps or camp fires for light and, also, have virtually no access to news, except for battery - operated radios (when they can afford batteries).

So they use kerosene lamps, and kerosene is just a terrible way to provide light for a lot of reasons, one being that, for many people, kerosene costs a significant part of their income.

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.

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The company works with local entrepreneurs to sell its lamps to households where electricity is scarce or unavailable, at prices that are affordable to families currently using costly and toxic kerosene for their lighting.

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).

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out.

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 program is expected to offer health and economic benefits by cutting the use of guttering kerosene lamps.

We'll use the funds you raise to replace African candles and kerosene lamps with as many clean, renewable solar lights as possible — and send you a surprise gift

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.

Lighting is another big source of indoor air pollution — particularly the use of unvented kerosene lamps.

The only «non-green» energy used was a bit of kerosene for the kitchen lamp, and petrol for a small Ford utility.

In developing countries the Soccket is able to give families a power source for lighting and cooking in place of kerosene lamps and wood - burning stoves that cause indoor pollution and numerous health problems for those that use them.

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.