News tagged with cooking stove
Cooking with sound -- Score stove enters test stage
A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world's poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a bio-mass ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Carbon nanotubes: The weird world of 'remote Joule heating'
(Phys.org) -- A team of University of Maryland scientists have discovered that when electric current is run through carbon nanotubes, objects nearby heat up while the nanotubes themselves stay cool, like a ...
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Some 'improved cookstoves' may emit more pollution than traditional mud cookstoves
The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of "improved cookstoves" (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the worrisome "black carbon," or soot, particles that ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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US launches new coalition to fight climate change
Faulting the world for not doing enough to fight climate change, the United States on Thursday announced the formation of a coalition to cut short-lived pollutants that speed up warming and harm health.
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Energy poverty creating a respiratory disease 'epidemic' for almost half the world's population
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Elusive ultrafine indoor air contaminants yield to NIST analysis
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework—measurements in a "typical dwelling" of the release, distribution and fate of ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Saving millions of lives and protecting our climate through clean cooking options
For many people in the developing world getting enough food to eat is a persistent challenge. However the challenge does not stop there. A new issue of the international journal Energy Policy details the human and enviro ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Leicester leads the way towards a sustainable lake in Africa
University of Leicester conservation scientists David Harper, Caroline Upton and Ed Morrison (Departments of Biology and Geography) will be developing demonstration projects that might lead Europe towards an ecologically ...
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Berkeley Lab tests cookstoves for Haiti
The developers of the fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stove for refugee camps in central Africa are at it once again, this time evaluating inexpensive metal cookstoves for the displaced survivors of last year's deadly earthquake ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Curb soot and smog to keep Earth cool, says UN
Sharply reducing emissions of soot and smog could play a critical role in preventing Earth from overheating, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.
Jun 14, 2011 |
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How to save energy and stay cool during a heat wave
Nature doesn't appear willing to cut consumers a break. Neither does the economy.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 14, 2011 |
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