The goal is to overcome the hurdles generally posed by limited money and training in such remote areas -- and reduce fuel wood consumption by 75 percent.
Young problem solvers make fuel wood-alternative from bio-waste: Jon Kubricki and Bridget Zarych , both 16-year-old students at Pinelands Eco Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey , are winning team-members of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge.
Meanwhile, Kior last month said it received EPA approval for a drop-in replacement fuel from wood chips using a pyrolysis process adopted from the oil refining business.
Consider, for example, a spate of new studies that have found a rather convincing correlation between the presence of small particulate matter (PM2.5, the fine particles blown into the air by road traffic, coal-fired power plants, industrial manufacturing, and residential wood fuel combustion) and both obesity and diabetes.
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Prior to WW1, most fuel ethanol came from wood logging and milling waste using the Scholler process.
As in most central African countries, Congo's deforestation is currently minor, caused largely by small-scale shifting cultivation and over-harvesting of wood for fuel.
This last comment highlights the very differing scales of illegal logging, which encompasses everything from mechanised teams to individual villagers taking wood for fuel.
It created a race to build the technology for making fuel from non-food sources, whether it was ethanol from wood chips and jet fuel from algae.
Burning biomass fuel sources such as wood, sunflower husks or animal faeces is part of the government's plans to get 15% of the UK's energy from renewable sources by 2020.
This one-of-a-kind restaurant is like a pizza museum: it has seven different ovens using every conceivable fuel - coal, wood, gas, and electric - at temperatures ranging from 550 to 1000 degrees, in an effort to turn out the best and most authentic versions of nine distinctly different regional styles of pizza.
The proposals, for the south bank of the river, include storage facilities for imported wood pellet bio fuel.
Cuomo accused Mr. Ceglia of defrauding customers of his wood-pellet fuel company, according to a news release from the Attorney General's office.
"The whole point is to take a gas guzzler off the road and replace it with a newer, more fuel efficient model, " Wood said.
This type of ethanol refers to fuel made from waste, wood, plants and other products, as opposed to the now widely produced corn ethanol.
Tourism is creating other problems for the local environment, too, including increased population density, over-dependence on wood as a fuel and construction source and the overgrazing and cutting of mountain slopes to feed livestock.
One of these days, we'll be making fuel to power our automobiles from wood chips, to switchgrasses, to agricultural wastes.
The requirements to power a single station can be extensive, particularly if it is using wood as its primary fuel source.
But fuel from algae might make no less sense than trying to make fuel from prairie grasses or corn cobs or wood chips.
Calculate carbon emissions for a road trip or flight and buy offsets to fund worldwide projects that employ those in poverty, such as tree-planting programmes that hire low-income workers, or projects that help both the poor and the environment by distributing fuel-efficient stoves, as opposed to wood-burning ones used in most homes in developing countries.
Advanced bio-fuel centers, which can take landfill waste and wood chips to make cellulosic ethanol, are also part of that universe and are attracting enthusiasts and naysayers alike.
For coal or wood, allow at least 30 minutes for fuel to turn gray before cooking.
If wood had not become scarce in Europe as a fuel we would never have dug for coal and developed the understanding which allows development of oil and gas reserves.
Rather than grow and harvest biomass, such as wood chips or algae, and then process that into fuel, Joule has engineered microorganisms to secrete fuel and chemicals, including ethanol and diesel.
He describes Athens shrouded in wood smoke as people strip the forests, unable to afford heating fuel.
Instead of fruit-tree wood, the ducks here are cooked in an oven with straw as fuel.
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