中英对照：节能炉项目获得可持续能源奖

　　Innovators bringing sustainable energy to communities in developing countries were recognised last night (19 June) at an awards ceremony held in London, United Kingdom.

　　在促进可持续能源的阿什登奖颁奖年会上，来自孟加拉国、巴西、中国、埃塞俄比亚、印度、坦桑尼亚以及乌干达的项目各获得了2万英镑（约合4万美元）的奖励。

　　Projects from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania and Uganda were all awarded prizes of ￡20,000 (around US$40,000) at the annual Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

　　设计更安全和效率更高的燃木炉灶的技术信息学设计努力项目（TIDE)项目被授予了“能源冠军”奖，并获得了4万英镑的奖励。

　　The Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE) project, which designs safer and more efficient wood-burning stoves, was crowned the overall Energy Champion, winning a ￡40,000 prize.

　　这些由TIDE设计的炉灶使印度南部估计约800万从事小产业的人民受益——比如，印染、香料烘干以及街头食品摊贩。

　　These TIDE stoves are a boon for an estimated eight million people working in small industries in southern India — for example, in textile dying, spice drying and street food vendors.

　　TIDE的负责人Svati Bhogle说该奖项“会激励我们探险未知领域、第一个去开辟新的天地并使之成为常规。”

　　Svati Bhogle, chief executive of TIDE, said the award "gives us the motivation to venture into uncharted terrain, to first break new ground and then develop it into a beaten track".

　　这种炉灶既能利用诸如椰子壳这样的废弃材料，也能利用木柴。改良的传热、隔热以及燃烧产生的热量和烟更少，这最终改善了工作环境。这些都是针对印度每个特定小产业进行设计的，同时用户也为开发做出了贡献。

　　The stoves can use waste material such as coconut shells as well as wood. Improved heat transfer, insulation and combustion creates less heat and smoke, resulting in improved working conditions. They were designed with each industry specifically in mind, with users contributing to the development.

　　Bhogle说现在有10500只炉灶在12个产业部门中投入使用，这节约了14万吨燃料并减少二氧化碳排放20万吨。

　　Bhogle said 10,500 stoves are now in use in 12 industry sectors, saving 140,000 tonnes of fuel and 200,000 tonnes of emitted carbon dioxide.

　　“印度农村存在严重的能源危机，获取能源并有效利用能源，再加上精心设计和实施良好的促进机制，具有改造乡村的潜力。”

　　"There is a serious energy crisis in rural India, but access to energy and its efficient use, accompanied by well-conceived and well-implemented enabling mechanisms, has the potential to transform rural areas."

　　今年的阿什登奖还奖励了其他一些炉灶。坦桑尼亚的 Kisangani Smith集团设计了一种使用压缩废锯末和稻麸做燃料的炉灶，而不是用昂贵的木炭。

　　Other stoves were prominent among this year's winners. The Kisangani Smith Group in Tanzania designed a stove that uses compressed waste sawdust or rice husks, rather than expensive charcoal.

　　GAIA协会的炉灶选择利用了制糖工业中的废糖蜜生产的乙醇燃料，他们把这种炉灶分发给了埃塞俄比亚东部一个大型难民营中的索马里难民。

　　The GAIA association has opted to use ethanol fuel produced from the waste molasses of the sugar industry in their stoves, which they have distributed to Somalian refugees living in a large camp in eastern Ethiopia.

　　印度的Aryavart Gramin银行以及孟加拉国的Grameen Shakti项目——2006年奖项得主而且获得了今年的卓越成就奖——都为那些无法接入电网的人们提供负担得起的贷款来在他们家里安装太阳能发电装置。

　　Elsewhere, both the Aryavart Gramin Bank in India and Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh — a 2006 winner and recipient of this year's Outstanding Achievement Award — provide affordable loans for people without access to the electricity grid to install solar power in their homes.

　　乌干达的尼罗河果实项目利用太阳能来干燥果实。这种简单的太阳能干燥装置是用一种覆盖了塑料膜的木架制成的，能够让阳光进入但是挡住了昆虫，而且还利用了自然对流。

　　The Ugandan project, Fruits of the Nile, harnesses the power of the sun to dry fruit.　Simple solar dryers, constructed from a wooden frame covered with plastic, let the light in, keep insects out and use natural convection.

　　Ashden奖还发表了一个报告，对之前的10个获奖项目进行了分析。这份由英国国际发展部委托撰写的报告得出结论说，必须找出更多的方法来为创新研究和开发提供资金和人力资源，而且要有明确的国家能源政策来指导项目。

　　Ashden also published a report, commissioned by the UK Department for International Development, analysing ten previous winners. More ways must be found to provide financial and human resources for innovative research and development, it concluded, with clear national energy policies to guide projects.

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