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Blue Peter on June 24, 2009 - 11:05am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The Tibetan tents are the other extreme - very low embedded energy, quick to build or erect, but a major health hazard to the occupants. Minor improvements in the design can drastically improve the quality of life for the occupants.

What's the health hazard? fumes?

Peter.

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RalphW on June 24, 2009 - 11:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that toxic emissions from cooking stoves are responsible for causing 1.6m premature deaths a year, half of them among children under five years old. In China 83m people will die from lung cancer and respiratory disease over the next 25 years, according to a recent report from Harvard University.

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=...

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