Posted on 10/17/2020 7:46:42 AM PDT by Tallguy
Heather Price knows her way around gases. An atmospheric chemist at North Seattle College, she studies outdoor air pollution, the flow and change of chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere. But she wasn’t worried about the gas stove in her own home before her son developed asthma and, at two and a half years old, had to use his inhaler multiple times a day. She started to wonder: Was gas making her family sick? Sign up for The Atlantic’s daily newsletter. Price’s house ran on natural gas—“gas stove, gas furnace, gas hot-water heater,” she says. In American homes, this setup is quite common, but gas appliances—and gas stoves in particular—have costs. Cooking on a gas stove unleashes some of the same fumes found in car exhaust. If those fumes are not vented outside the house, they linger and sneak into lungs.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I know I’m just that way....
My experience:
In New Hampshire about 11 years ago we lost power for 13 days because of an ice storm just after Christmas. Unfortunately, the temperatures were in the single digits (under 10 degrees F) for most of those days. Fortunately, I had a gas stove. I quickly learned that heating the house, either from the top burners or the oven created an unbreathable condition in the house. Because windows and doors were all sealed to keep the cold out, there was no venting of the gasses created by burning the gas.
It quickly became clear that the stove was not vented and was not a way to heat the house. So... Neither her dryer (I had one of those too) or stove were vented and could have made her child’s condition worse. The furnace is vented and should not have been an issue.
If you live in a climate where your doors and windows remain closed, unvented gas appliances can be an issue.
Once in awhile, but more often recently I reflect on which is worse for our environment natural gas, or leftist gas? This article only further secures leftist gas as the leading contender.
We have gas and absolutely love it. We live in the foothills and the power goes out frequently during storms in Fall, Winter and early Spring, sometimes for days. But we have our backup generator hooked up to the gas so we just crank it up and flip a couple of switches and life goes on basically without any disruption. It costs about a third compared to powering the generator with gasoline.
The only thing a little unusual is that things made out of rubber seem to deteriorate more quickly in this house than other places we have lived. I am not sure what causes that, but thought that the gas stove top might have something to do with it. We have an old JennAir with down draft venting between the burners that we only turn on when we are making something smokey.
Due to transmission losses, gas appliances release far, far less eeeeeevil CO2 and water than a remote power plant does to generate enough electricity to power your all electric appliances!
I got a bad burn as a kid on a stove like that... next proposed solution?!
See? Now this is why I posted this article. The smell of Freeper ridicule in the morning is delicious!
It’s all that damned hair spray,....and oven cleaner.
So the Green New Deal is going to:
End air travel,
End cruising,
AND
End cooking with gas?
I don’t like the sound of that.
Ya THINK??!??!!
They probably also get headaches from all the carbon monoxide.
OTOH, to look at them, you'd think they are in the pink of health...
Last time I had a gas stove it cost over $20 a month just to have the connection, then about $1 a month for the amount of gas I actually used.
Honey bees, you’re all good. Don’t do that with paper hornets or you will die on fire.
The pilot light of most gas stoves is always on.
But this makes me wonder about the air quality of those open kitchen restaurants with multiple flames going all day long.
Well, then you’re likely complaining about building codes and who installed the appliances. My hot water heater has a vent stack. My range top has a vent hood. Admittedly that is manual so must be turned ‘on’ to be of use.
OTOH, I have installed my own appliances and done my own electrical work. I’m not cutting corners on installation techniques — they are “to Code” — but merely trying to save the time & money for inspections. I would suggest that this “Atmospheric Chemist” may have purchased an older home from a do-it-yourselfer and that before she tears into an established industry and energy source she should put some of her analytical brain-power into investigating the more mundane aspects of homeownership.
Most — i’m tempted to say ‘all’ — new gas appliances use electric ignition. That’s why I lose my (GAS) heat when the power goes down.
Hot water and cooking via propane here. We heat the house with wood. Oh, the humanity! Or is that a huge manatee?
Reminds me of the city council meeting where a (presumably) UC Santa Cruz student with a room-temperature IQ went on a screed about combustion engines...
I guess put that together with only minimal cooking and you’d be good!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.