Local Balinese women cook the food on sawdust burners using secrets that only their grandmothers know.

There is a clear need to continue making advances in areas such as the efficiency of various energy conversion systems (burners, turbines and motors, for example) low energy designs for electrical appliances and for heating, cooling and lighting of buildings the dematerialization and recycling of energy intensive material and designing land use and transportation systems that minimize demand for personal vehicle travel.