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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
From my cold dead tongs...
Tree, rope, bureaucrat.....some assembly required.
Hysterical. I suppose they are going to put cameras on everyone’s house, and hire millions of people to watch and see whether you insert before you flip, and remove after the flip.
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Drones to view your backyard grill ?
Leave it to the Federal government to try to take the aroma of grilling burgers or steak out of the equation! Maybe we could create a buyback program for outdated grills, with a subsidy for the new models! You’re all invited to my annual Earth Day styrofoam burning party....
F-off EPA, really... And you assholes call yourselves Americans?
You all need your butts kicked, then fired.
“I’ll figure out how to make my own barbeque grill before I pay $1,000 for a dinky EPA approved “grill”.....”
Couple of cinder blocks, old oven rack and a pile of wood works just fine.
For many years the government has brainwashed people that the major cause of global warming was SUV’s.
But we now know that the root cause is that cavemen, tribal natives, explorers and settlers did not have proper catalytic converters for their open cook fires.
EPA Nazis wouldn’t last one minute in a firefight.
Don’t like their rules ... I’m betting that there will be an administrative policy pushed through authorizing .... yes, EPA SWAT teams. If the Dept. of Ed has one to crack heads and bust knees to get ed loan repayments, the EPA has a much higher calling ... the religious war of Global Warming.
Fix the Third World first-EPA
Like Pratibha, over two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people continue to rely on carbon-emitting biomass and dung-based fuel for cooking, according to a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) report titled ‘Sustainable Energy For All’ – released this month.
“thethirdpole.net”
Swallowing a camel...straining on a gnat.
Communist bastards in the federal government.
not fix, exterminate the EPA for arrogance
The arrogant LIB asshats throughout government need brought to Justice...nothing less.
I probably ate as much venison cooked over an open fire as on a stove, and I didn't need exhaust fans and doo-dads. Sometimes, it was just impaled on a stick. (and that is just one type of meat).
Obviously, these people have too much time on their hands, which makes them hammers in search of a nail.
I intend to keep my charcoal grill unregistered and free!!
These people are rabid and insane. STOP GIVING THEM MONEY.
"The secret is in the sauce."
FMCDH(BITS)
EPA shut down this:
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