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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Barbequeing with coals and those life threatening flareups will just become another form of moonshining- done in the woods in the dead of night.
The world has gone mad.
The new government approved BBQ’s will require the new owner to register the product with the EPA for a small fee, within 30 days of purchase and will need to be renewed ever 4 years.
You will be provided a notice of federal certificate of compliance which must be posted at the residence in clear view. Any tampering with the new approved BBQs could result in fines and or imprisonment.
The problem with the EPA is that they have to continually find reasons to justify their existence.
The burgers just don’t taste the same without “grease flare-up”.
What a bunch of meatheads! (The Archie Bunker type.)
The rednecks’ll love this. They’ll hurl the grease tray contents onto the fire after flipping the burgers!
I would say the use of the word “targeted” is appropriate here in the South were someone to drop in and enforce this crap.
Well it is going to take more than “POLLS” to move this idiot congress to make it stop.
Thanks again, Dick Nixon.
FIFY...
but republicrats just keep funding and funding and funding. The most they can’t do is write letters to the editor. What a bunch of worthless morons.
Perpetual mission creep (mission gallop)
The new law will have zero effect on the lower class in North Long Beach who grill on a stolen metal supermarket cart over a pile of charcoal briquets from the liquor store... at least right up until some city policeman tries to issue an EPA citation to a parole violator at a public park Labor Day gathering and they end up having to shoot three people to death when an altercation ensues.
LOL “A slotted and irrigated tray”. BBQ’s already come with these, standard. Its called “a grill”.
ESADEPA
That will get the low information voters off their asses and away from the Lazy-Boy chair and the ball games on TV long enough to find out who and what they are voting for.
For it is they who helped get this country in the mess it is in today.
bummer has so far offended nearly everyone. Before it is over, he will have offended even the most rabid liberal as well as the dumbest low information voter.
I just hope it happens in time to save this country.
There is so little time left.
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