Cats also lay claim to the warm spot in front of the kerosene heater. The Nekobako blog captures this scene perfectly

Instead, many people rely on kerosene space heaters to keep warm, as well as something called a kotatsu a low wooden table outfitted with a heavy blanket, and warmed by a heater underneath.

Our electric heater does not work well.

In BhatBatheni, Kathmandu, people queue for kerosene.

Passivhaus designs usually integrate the heater with the ventilation system.

YR When I exit full of kerosene, I'm about 55 kilos.

Four little engines, 22 kilos thrust each, turbines working with kerosene.

At the same time Łukasiewicz continued his work on kerosene lamps.

89 per cent of rural households and use kerosene lamps for light.

In all systems, a small supplementary heater increases personal security and reduces lifestyle impacts for a small reduction of autonomy.

Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

If you park your car and didn't plug in the heater, when you come back you don't have a car. It just doesn't work.

Likewise, overcoming the burden of indoor air pollution will happen only when people can use kerosene, propane, and grid based electricity.

If I buy a hybrid car, install a solar panel at my home, or upgrade to a more efficient water heater, I get a tax credit.

Though the Russians claim to have improved their operations, they continue to use the same borehole, which has already been contaminated with kerosene.

CO2 emissions result from other, generally beneficial acts, such as burning coal to keep warm, burning kerosene to cook, or burning gas to transport people.

Using alternative energy sources such as solar cooking and electrical heating is effective, as is using fuels such as kerosene or coal rather than biomass.

Another, far less common, type of MEMS based accelerometer contains a small heater at the bottom of a very small dome, which heats the air inside the dome to cause it to rise.

Later this aboriginal fishing technique was reinvented, and fishermen began using kerosene to light the fire. During Japanese rule over Taiwan, fisherman switched to using acetylene gas for stoking the flames.

The word kotatsu conjures up images of coziness and warmth, and not just for humans. House cats love the kotatsu, too, and can often be found snoozing under the table, inside the blanket, close to the electric heater.

Many Parties have measures in place that encourage the switching from solid cooking fuels, such as biomass and coal, to cleaner alternative fuels, such as kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and biogas.

I could, after all, have written it on paper, by the light of a kerosene lamp. It seems I have lost the ability to write without hearing the sound of my fingers tapping on the keyboard.

Firewalls won t work, if kerosene is simultaneously thrown on the fire, as Europe seems committed to doing there is no example of a large economy and Europe is the world s largest recovering as a result of austerity.

Whether foraging for firewood, which may expose them and their daughters to the risk of rape, or spending their scarce resources on kerosene for smoky, inefficient lighting, women make difficult decisions every day about household energy resources and usage.

A solar home system connects a photovoltaic panel to florescent lightbulbs, radio, and even TV, via a battery and load controller. A World Bank study has shown that a 20 watt solar home system can cut monthly kerosene consumption in rural households by roughly 15 liters.

This is I don't know if you saw it on CNN recently they gave the Heroes Award to a young Kenyan shepherd boy who couldn't study at night in his village, like all the village children, because the kerosene lamp, it had smoke and it damaged his eyes.