DocumentCode
3383731
Title
Creating global awareness for eliminating light poverty in the world: To replace hazardous kerosene lamps with clean and safe solar lamps
Author
Barki, Bharat ; Barki, D.T. ; Habbu, Girish
Author_Institution
Noble Energy Solar Technolgies Ltd, (NEST) A9, Aero View Towers, Shamlal Blgs., Begampet, Hyderabad-500009, AP, India
fYear
2008
fDate
11-16 May 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
In this age of economic globalization and digitalization of every sphere of life, over 2 billion people world over are still burning unsafe kerosene to light up their evenings. Besides being a slow poison that the kerosene fumes are, in India alone, 2.5 million people meet with kerosene related fire accidents, which include 350,000 children. There is nothing good about kerosene, yet many national governments provide subsidy and promote this killer fuel indirectly. Even after 100 years of invention of electricity the modem world is leaving behind a third of world population without access to electricity and forcing them to use the deadly kerosene lanterns. The power-hungry world has so far failed to divert even a negligible portion of its grid electricity to those who burn unsafe kerosene for lighting. While the world with constantly increasing population demands more and more energy, the fast growing industrial developments long for even more energy supply thus making the scenario worse.
Keywords
Accidents; Electricity supply industry; Fires; Fuel economy; Globalization; Government; Lamps; Modems; Power generation economics; Toxicology;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2008. PVSC '08. 33rd IEEE
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA, USA
ISSN
0160-8371
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1640-0
Electronic_ISBN
0160-8371
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922825
Filename
4922825
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