• 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