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.
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Or, ”Was her sick family making gas?"
That's why I have a couple of inverters that I can connect to the car battery. Once the burners are lit, the stove will run without power. One of them is rated at 400 watts. That is enough to run the stove. One is 2000 watts. It will run a small electric heater. Had a major ice storm here in 2007, power was out for over a week. Was able to keep the place warm enough to get by wearing sweaters inside. House was built in 1963, not particularly well insulated, and leaks like a sieve. CO monitor did not detect any carbon monoxide.
Her family was making gas sick.
All that would do is heat your house, since the gas is already ignited; the heat would exit the vents on the stove. Plus, many stoves have lights that indicate when the oven is on, and if you are still in the vicinity of the oven, you can hear the little whoosh of the flames. It’s not a great idea to run any of your major appliances when you are out of the house or sleeping, since any of them are a potential fire hazard, including the clothes dryer. Check around before leaving the house or going up to bed.
You can usually light your gas appliances with a match when the electric ignition goes down, as long as they have a pilot. Depends how the access is configured; but at least your stovetop and water heater are usually accessible. We had a bunch of power outages around here, and you learn after the first one going without a shower for 3 days or whatever.
My electric appliances were about the same cost as gas to run, and was completely environmentally friendly and carbon free
Of course my electricity came from the local nuclear plant...
Silly Wabbit, I’ll bet you think man made global warming is real too.
How about candles? They are FAR WORSE!
What about whale oil lamps?
Its a good thing that while you sit in traffic that your airtight car protects you.
So...no heat...no hot water...and a diet of raw vegetables.
Not all. I’ve never had a gas range that was vented. Gas furnaces and gas dryers and gas water heaters, but not gas ranges.
Very poor presenter. You don’t deliberately shame someone for an honestly asked question, no matter how stupid.
Lots of gas bags writing for the Atlantic...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gas%20bag
from link:
gas bag
Gas bag = wind bag, pompous, talkative, bloviator. One who bloviates - constantly talking, often in a longwinded pompous manner. Many of these folks like the sound of their own voice - often unaware of those around them who are often laughing at them behind their backs. These folks are often very vain and conceited - impressed by their own self importance.
Good thing our house breathes so much you can almost see it’s ribs move! (Built in the fifties -— no insulation in the walls).
If you live in Oklahoma, I’m getting rid of my vintage 1950’s Kenmore gas range. It’s going out to the curb sometime in the next week or so. Needs new insulation (mice..yuk) and a new oven thermocouple. (About $50).
NO. Atlantic soyboys and banshee girls come and make me.
You can buy “off grid” propane/ natl gas appliances that use batteries or piezo ignites like an outdoor gas grill.
For me it is more of a joke if someone asks me if I’ve seen my psychiatrist recently as my wife is a psychiatrist!
LOL! I can understand that!
My third born, as a toddler, fell against the wood range and burned both palms of his hands. Only did that once.
We turned the stove *on* about Labor Day and it ran constantly until Memorial day.......keeping a whole *L* to the 18th C house.
Is it that art-deco turquoise blue that was so popular back in the 50’s?
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