The only heating is a wood-burning stove; such are the insulating properties of straw that fuel bills could be 20% of those of conventional homes.

唯一的取暖设施是烧木头的火炉使用的稻草是绝缘特性的稻草燃料只需要传统的家庭使用的燃料的20%。

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The fire a burning up in the blood, the strongest vow is straw.

血液中的火焰一燃烧起来，最坚强的誓言也就等于草杆。

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With the characteristic of fluidized burning, this technology avoids alkali metals problem and the adaptability problem of changeful straw fuel.

该技术利用流态化燃烧的固有特点，避免了碱金属问题和针对多变秸秆燃料的适应性问题。

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Parents are being reminded to take more responsibility for their children's safety after five boys, aged 4 to 5 years, suffocated while burning straw in a barn in Guizhou province on Monday night, China Daily says.

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Some developers are now looking to generate energy by burning straw, which the UK has an abundant supply of and which, as a by-product of agricultural crops, does not have an impact on the food verses fuel debate currently engulfing the biofuel industry.

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There will be a lot of shadow boxing and burning of straw men before this is done.

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