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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-- Oscar Wilde
The EPA was created by executive order, it’s not clear to me that Congress can eliminate it.
lets see, a bottle with a rag tied to it and... no no no bad Chode, BAD Chode!!!
Who invited Hillary to the BBQ?
The one in the back row left, is from “The Boot” I know that salute all to well, Afa and Bafa....
Technology for the Reduction of Particulate Matter Emissions for Residential Propane BBQs
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/10266/report/0
Way past time to shut down the EPA and the ATF.
“An EPA investigator tried to arrest me once....”
Sounds like a patent troll, are they planning on licensing royalties?
“the EPA has been increasingly looking at homeowners,...”
China 1949
Post of the day! LOL
Dear EPA, may you burn in the fires you wish to extinguish.
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What are we going to do with these NAZIs?
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10 years from now we won’t be able to buy a grill without these things on them and they will cost 3 times what grills cost now.
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Charcoal is OK with saturated almond wood chips on top of them.
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Few people are willing to risk their jobs for the greater good.
The problem can be corrected only by making the interests of senators congruent with their states.
Return the senate to the states, and senators won't give a rip what Obama, rats and media have to say of them.
Article V.
I cannot WAIT to see an EPA designed BBQ grill. —
Where’s the OSHA Cowboy?
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