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LPG
abbreviation for
- liquefied petroleum gas
Example Sentences
Indeed, the Paris summit was heavily attended by gas companies, and despite the lack of official recognition of LPG in the event's declaration, some in the industry celebrated the attention as a "turning point" for the fuel.
At the conference, the Dutch commodities trading multinational Vitol announced $550 million worth of clean cooking investments in Africa, partly in the form of LPG infrastructure.
But conspicuously absent from the declaration was any mention of what Jack described as a "perennial debate" among advocates of clean cooking: the question of what kind of stoves count as appropriate improvements on preindustrial methods and, in particular, the role of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, in addressing the crisis.
Jack's work has involved advocating for moving people from gas to electric stoves, but he believes Africans can't afford to wait for the infrastructure and investment necessary to avoid using LPG as a "transition fuel."
Although he considers Jack a friend with a reasonable position on the issue, Kammen contends that the adoption of LPG stoves "slows down the process for us to switch to electric cooking" in Africa, and he argues that the rapidly increasing cost-effectiveness of electric cooking is underappreciated by health researchers.
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