Stoves and Trees
Stoves and Trees

Author: Gerald Foley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1040028713

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Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. The book not only examines newer stoves but also ascertains how people buy, collect and use wood in the developing world. It finds that most forests are cleared for timber or farmland not fuelwood and explains why stoves which show 50% energy savings in European laboratories often save little or none in village homes.

Hitchers
Hitchers

Author: Will McIntosh

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1597803367

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Two years ago, on the same day but miles apart, Finn Darby lost two of the most important people in his life: his wife Lorena, struck by lightning on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, and his abusive, alcoholic grandfather, Tom Darby, creator of the long-running newspaper comic strip Toy Shop. Against his grandfather’s dying wish, Finn has resurrected Toy Shop, adding new characters, and the strip is more popular than ever, bringing in fan letters, merchandising deals, and talk of TV specials. Finn has even started dating again. When a terrorist attack decimates Atlanta, killing half a million souls, Finn begins blurting things in a strange voice beyond his control. The voice says things only his grandfather could know. Countless other residents of Atlanta are suffering a similar bizarre affliction. Is it mass hysteria, or have the dead returned to possess the living? Finn soon realizes he has a hitcher within his skin... his grandfather. And Grandpa isn’t terribly happy about the changes Finn has been making to Toy Shop. Together with a pair of possessed friends, an aging rock star, and a waitress, Finn races against time to find a way to send the dead back to Deadland... or die trying!

A New Approach to Domestic Fuelwood Conservation
A New Approach to Domestic Fuelwood Conservation

Author: Jan Bialy

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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FAO pub. Textbook on research covering household energy conservation of fuelwood in developing countries - examines deforestation and the development of fuel saving stoves; looks at research needs; explains the techniques of power consumption and other surveys, measurement of chemical and thermal energy, of cooking efficiency, etc.; discusses testing and field trials. Bibliography, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, references, statistical tables.