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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This IS bullshit. The EPA must be eliminated, Democrats, and their environ-mental-midgets prohibited from running Kool Aid stands.
Nonsense is their only sense.
Waaaayyyy too many bureaucrats with waaaaaayyy too much time on their hands.
If Dudley Dooright of the EPA comes around my house, I’m gonna show him the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” as a hint.
the EPA can shove that project right up their...
dismantle the EPA, they are just looking for reasons to keep wasting taxpayers money.
This is going to hurt tailgaters and black families.
“Ha! I refuse to use propane, charcoal is the only way to go!”
Charcoal will be banned soon enough.
Won’t affect those of us with access to hardwoods.
The EPA just does not have enough to do.
Let’s send them out into the country to pick up
Dog turds!
Have they considered a small, two cycle gasoline motor to power the anti-pollution system.
The catalytic converter in the exhaust system probably won’t add more than $600 to the price of a $200 grill.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Hijix....
How much taxpayer funding will be required to establish a nationwide network of neighborhood BBQ snoops to narc out violators?
Do these pointy heads have any idea what the Chinese are dumping into the air?
I use both propane and charcoal. Charcoal for cooking and a propane torch to light it.
Of that, I have no doubt.
Thankfully I use charcoal so I’ll be exempt.
hey.how else ya gona get rid 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.
Good Lord, make it stop.
You can have my weiner when you pry it from my cold dead Webber.
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