Briquettes are a slow-burning form of fuel that saves energy for home cooking and heating needs. Try out the recipes shared. In a time where we are seeking to conserve the environment as well as cut ...

NAKIVALE, Uganda, Aug 9 (UNHCR) - Cooking with a traditional three-stone stove in south-west Uganda's sprawling Nakivale refugee settlement used to be an exhausting daily exercise for 39-year-old ...

Mrs Kalpana Karia, the briquette projects coordinator at the Briquettes Processing Factory in Dunga, Kisumu County. Inset: The ready briquettes. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Everybody is so busy on this ...

Which is better: recycling all your paper, or soaking it and making briquettes to burn and so reducing the need for heating oil deliveries? Chris O'Neill, Co Kildare Every time we put out a kilogram ...

A project that converts human waste into fuel has been shortlisted in an international innovation competition. The project, by the Nakuru Water Sewerage and Sanitation Company (Nawassco), involves ...

A few years ago, Richard Stanley received an invitation to a government-sponsored energy conference in a plush hotel in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. Jaded from attending such seemingly endless “talk ...

THERE are many economic benefits associated with implementing a biomass briquettes programme in Jamaica, in an effort to provide the island with a cheaper fuel source. Biomass briquettes (or ...