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  2. World problems
  3. Energy-inefficient cooking stoves

Energy-inefficient cooking stoves

  • Energy-wasteful cooking methods

Claim

Poorly-designed stoves and the use of open fires used in developing countries to cook on are a hugh source of energy wastage. It is estimated that 5 million adequately designed stoves could be built for less than the cost of one average dam in Africa and would save 4 to 5 times the amount of energy the dam would produce.

Broader

Insufficient energy equipment
Presentable
Energy inefficient lifestyles
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Shortage of firewood
Presentable
Long-term shortage of coal
Presentable
Inequality in distribution of energy resources among countries
Presentable

Aggravated by

Inadequate maintenance equipment
Presentable
Domestic fires
Presentable
Lack of conservation of energy by the private sector
Unpresentable
High cost of natural gas trade infrastructure
Unpresentable

Strategy

Increasing energy intensity
Yet to rate

Value

Wastage
Yet to rate
Overefficient
Yet to rate
Inefficiency
Yet to rate
Energy
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean EnergySustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
E7904
DOCID
11579040
D7NID
136099
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/energy-inefficient-cooking-stoves
Last update
Oct 4, 2020