Posted on 03/13/2015 3:19:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Environmental Protection Agency has its eyes on pollution from backyard barbecues.
The agency announced that it is funding a University of California project to limit emissions resulting in grease drippings with a special tray to catch them and a "catalytic" filtration system.
The $15,000 project has the "potential for global application," said the school.
The school said that the technology they will study with the EPA grant is intended to reduce air pollution and cut the health hazards to BBQ "pit masters" from propane-fueled cookers.
Charged with keeping America's air, water and soil clean, the EPA has been increasingly looking at homeowners, especially their use of pollution emitting tools like lawn mowers.
The school is proposing two fixes to reduce emissions from barbecues. First, they want to cut back on grease flare-ups. The idea: "A slotted and corrugated tray is inserted immediately prior to meat flipping, and removed immediately after. This short contact time prevents the tray from over-heating and volatilizing the collected grease. This collected grease will then drip off into a collection tray and can be used at the pit master's discretion."
But, total capture isn't "practical," so a filter and fan are proposed for installation. "The secondary air filtration system is composed of a single pipe duct system which contains a specialized metal filter, a metal fan blade, a drive shaft, and an accompanying power system with either a motorized or manual method. This system can be powered by either an exterior electric motor with a chain-driven drive shaft, directly spinning the fan blade, or a hand-powered crank," said the project write-up.
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When they go after beer farts, I am in REAL trouble.
let em come after the Bonfires!!!
Will some body please tell the EPA to GET LOST???
Eliminate the EPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COME AND TAKE IT! (my backyard grill).
This will get shot down as soon as the Burning Man hippies get wind of it.
“But, total capture isn’t “practical,” so a filter and fan are proposed for installation. “The secondary air filtration system is composed of a single pipe duct system which contains a specialized metal filter, a metal fan blade, a drive shaft, and an accompanying power system with either a motorized or manual method. This system can be powered by either an exterior electric motor with a chain-driven drive shaft, directly spinning the fan blade, or a hand-powered crank,” said the project write-up.”
I cannot WAIT to see an EPA designed BBQ grill.
What about cutting down all trees to totally eliminate forest fires?
Ha! I refuse to use propane, charcoal is the only way to go!
think i'll go throw the rest of last years lawnmower gas on the ground and light it,,, 
Would the EPA object to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM
This started at a university as well. A department at MIT got competitive with how quickly they could light the barbeque. Eventually they went to liquid oxygen. I remember hearing a professor talk about it and he cautioned people not to soak the briquettes as liquid oxygen soaked briquettes wold be equivalent to several sticks of dynamite each. One of the profs tried to return the remnants of the BBQ to Wal Mart saying it was defective.
This is craziness - pure D craziness! Who is funding these retarded grants?
“COME AND TAKE IT! (my backyard grill).”
The EPA does have a SWAT team - no joke.
Lunatics running the asylum.
If the majority is to be taken seriously, the Federal Government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States.
--J. Thomas, dissenting in Raich.
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Presumably, Scalia is just fine with this.
Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.
J. Scalia, concurring in Raich
it will never be enough for the EPA.
Only when we say no more. No more EPA.
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