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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
-- The term «
wood stove or pellet
stove» means a
wood stove, pellet
stove, or fireplace insert that uses
wood or pellets for
fuel.
Carbon monoxide is produced by liquid or solid
fuel sources like a gas burning appliances or a
wood burning
stove.
Charles from Uganda makes
stoves like these to reduce his use of
fuel wood from forests (they use 1/3 of the
wood that an open fire needs) and keep his kitchen area safe for his children.
Wood pellets, sometimes called
wood stove fuel pellets or pellet
fuel (and brand names like Feline Pine cat litter), can make a great replacement for regular cat litter, and have many advantages over the traditional clay stuff.
An old
wood burning
stove fuelled with well seasoned firewood and pinecones gathered from the garden provides welcome warmth — even in the summer months the nights are cool in this mountainous region.
- Use
fuel stoves in preference to
wood fires.
With its
wood burning
stove fuelled with
wood from the estate, Wild Eyedeer can be warm and cosy, whilst being extremely spacious providing a comfortable, light, airy and well - equipped stay.
But in other places, propane or other fossil
fuels, or simply a more efficient
stove for burning
wood, may be the right choice.
Many tiny housers build a raised platform for their
wood burning
stove, creating space for
fuel storage below.
Another suggestion is for projects to provide or subsidise efficient cooking
stoves, which will decrease the use of
wood for
fuel.
Pellet
stoves and fireplace inserts using pellets for
fuel that are exempt from testing by the Administrator but meet the same standards of performance as
wood stoves are considered certified for the purposes of this section.
The scheme additionally supports a number of other renewable technologies including micro-hydro,
wood pellet
stoves, and
wood fuelled boiler systems.
Burning solid
fuel (
wood, dung, agricultural residues, and coal) in traditional
stoves for cooking and heating negatively affects the health and welfare of nearly 3 billion people, mostly in low and middle - income countries.
The higher tech systems may produce way less emissions, and work far more efficiently, than a
wood stove, yet they are reliant on complex, high - tech components and expertise when it comes to both installation and maintenance — not to mention convoluted, vulnerable, and far - from - sustainable supply lines for their
fuel, whether it be natural gas or electricity.
Indoor
wood - fired
stoves can cause respiratory problems and burns, and the high demand for
fuel to supply them can contribute to deforestation.
Although there more quickly renewable sources of biomass for cooking than
wood, a 50 % reduction in
fuel usage compared with other tradtional
stoves is something to take seriously.
By allowing myself some flexibility with heating sources, I'm able to keep my
wood consumption down to a level that (I hope) will allow me to
fuel the
stove primarily, maybe even totally, with downed
wood from my surrounding woodland.
Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple
stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (
wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
Represented Taglich Private Equity, LLC, a New York based private equity sponsor in acquisition of Lignetics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of
fuel for
wood pellet
stoves, compressed
wood logs and animal bedding