Let’s start
this blog with an interesting number as given by the International Energy
Agency. It’s predicted that somewhere between 800 million to 2 billion people
will switch from traditional cooking with wood to other fuels such as LPG by
2030.
Off all the
lot, LPG is the preferred fuel for a variety of reasons. If we take a narrative
of comparison between LPG and wood, we are sure that there will be a lot of
points in favor of LPG. Even if we are not covering the entire points list,
let’s look at some of the major ones.
·
Efficiency: LPG is more energy concentrated
compared with wood. Annual per capital cooking requires only 43 kg of LPG
compared to the 400 kg of wood. The fuel consumption is cut approximately as
1/10th. This is because LPG transfers 50% of its energy to the stove
compared to the 10-20% of wood.
·
Health: Wood leads to a lot of pollution because wood
creates exhaust smoke. Wood cooking is one of the primary reasons for indoor
air pollution, which claims more than a million lives every year.
·
Carbon efficiency: Wood consists of only 50% fuel and
the rest are molecularly bound oxygen with vapour while LPG is completely fuel.
Thus burning wood wastes a lot of heat while the energy is not transferred
properly.
·
Environment Friendly: LPG can reduce Carbon dioxide
emissions significantly and this is much more effective in a tropical country
like ours. The data projects the emissions can be curbed by up to 60%.
·
Sustainability: Switching to LPG will save a lot of
trees from being cut down. For example if only 100 families switch from wood to
LPG, we can save close to 21.5 hectare of forest.
·
Better control: LPG fires can be easily turned on
or off using a stove, while trying to douse a wood fire will be a bigger
problem because of the smoke it releases.
These are
but very few reasons to get LPG for home. Now getting a new gas connection is
very easy with the government also supporting this. SUPERGAS also supports the
greener and better switch to LPG from wood for your health and for
environment’s sake.
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