Sentences with phrase «wood fuel»

The project reduces GHG emissions associated with the consumption of biomass for wood fuel traditionally used to boil drinking water.

And environmentalists fear promoting wood fuels could end up harming forests and other ecosystems.

Past studies suggest burning wood fuel is responsible for approximately 2 % of global CO2 emissions.

Three billion people still rely on decentralized wood fuel production.

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

The TWH exhaust air heat pump can be used with solar thermal systems, electric P.V., gas / oil boilers and heat input from wood fuel buffer systems.

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.

Heating with wood fuel does not contribute to the problem of global warming because of the natural carbon cycle of trees.

The «NativeEnergy Hydraid BioSand Water Filter Programme Central America» aims to reduce wood fuel consumption used for domestic / non-residential water treatment by introducing zero energy BioSand water filter technology to replace the use of boiling.

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) has published the first testing protocol for black carbon emissions from wood fuelled heat stoves.

The control system supplied with this heat pump can control solar thermal systems, electric P.V. integration, gas / oil boilers and heat input from wood fuel buffer systems.

A team from the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute paid a visit to Cookswell Jikos, a small Kenyan owned hybrid business that provides quality charcoal and wood fueled stoves to the market, to discover how the business is providing sustainable solutions to the challenges facing the charcoal industry in Kenya.

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.

«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.

They recommend that energy availability for household use — specifically wood fuels — should be added to the short list of essential drivers of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.

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.

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.

Europe's forests are often highly regulated, so European power companies have had to look abroad to source wood fuel, turning to the largely unregulated forests of the American South for fresh supplies.

«A national scheme of payments for environmental services would provide incentives for local land users to turn to more sustainable agriculture, encourage reforestation and help meet the demand for wood, including wood fuels,» said Almeida Sitoe, Associate Professor at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique and lead author of the report.

The scheme additionally supports a number of other renewable technologies including micro-hydro, wood pellet stoves, and wood fuelled boiler systems.

Many families can cut their carbon foot print by 25 % to 50 % by heating their home and domestic water using a new Phase 2 qualified Hydronic Heater and responsibly harvested wood fuel.

One additional thing that should be mentioned is that even if wood fuels are harvested in a sustainable, carbon - neutral way, that doesn't mean wood is a climate - friendly fuel.

Since wood fuel is here to stay, at least for now, scientists from the Center of International Forestry Research (CIFOR) wanted to find out how countries in the region prioritized this energy source as part of the climate actions they intend to take under the Paris Agreement.

Majority of this people depend on wood fuel for cooking and kerosene lanterns for lighting.

Some scientists also worry that policies promoting wood fuels could unleash a global logging boom that trashes forest biodiversity in the name of climate protection.

Around 95 % of Ugandan households use wood fuel as a primary energy source for cooking.

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

of fossil fuel used to harvest firewood yields 25 BTUs of wood fuel — a respectable ratio.

LPG, not solar panels, are the substitute for wood fuel for Suparti and in many parts of the developing world.

It's usually created by an earnest, well - traveled pizzaiolo who quotes dough master Chad Robertson and who probably chopped the wood fueling his brick oven in Vermont.

The householders have formed a pioneering wood fuel club with regular meetings to discuss ways to promote wood fuel throughout the region with the aim of developing a truly sustainable community.

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

Access to wood fuels for cooking must be considered when formulating policy to deal with food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers who advocate expanding the effort to improve wood - fuel systems and make them more sustainable.

Besides this, the ecosystem provides millions of communities with clean water, wood fuel and rainfall, making the region one of Kenya's major food baskets.

Monaghan's Cottage boasts a large rear yard and private garden with plenty of room for children to play including a swing set and a wood fuel barbecue.

Sizing a wood fueled fireplace is important not only because you don't want to waste money on an over-sized one, but because you don't want to hog up valuable floor space with one that's larger than necessary.

Demand for wood fuel and charcoal also leads to deforestation, devastates biodiversity, reduces habitat for endangered species and reduces carbon uptake by forests.

(F) Philips HD4012, wood fuel.

Cookstove types used around the world (A) Three - stone, minimally tended, wood fuel.

(H) StoveTec GreenFire, wood fuel.

(E) Philips HD4008, wood fuel.

(C) Envirofit G - 3300, wood fuel.

(D) Onil, wood fuel.

(B) Berkeley - Darfur, wood fuel.

(I) Upesi Portable, wood fuel.

(G) Sampada, wood fuel.

Even when the wood fuel comes from the «waste» leftover after a forest is cut down, the emissions from burning it exceed those from coal.