NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian social enterprise start-up is helping people living in urban slums to use clean energy by changing their kerosene lamps for solar lanterns and wood ...

A unique camping lantern has been created by Lumir that uses cooking oil to power the LED lamp rather than other more harmful fuels such as kerosene or similar. On 1 L of cooking oil the LED lamp is ...

My Oct. 5 post, “The Kerosene Lamp”, received reader comments that deserve sharing. Who in this era of ultra-dark-defying ...

A bioreactor is a useful thing to have in any biology lab. Fundamentally, it’s a tank in which biological activity can be nurtured and controlled. [The Thought Emporium] needed a visual aid for an ...

Kerosene heaters led to the cliche “burning the midnight oil.” Before electric lights became common, oil lamps were really the only option for illumination after dark—but these weren’t terribly ...