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Engineering360: "The indoor pollution potential of gas stoves"

07/25/2023 10:00 AM

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07/25/2023 11:18 AM

I think the expression goes, "Now you're cooking with gas." I will happily sniff a little benzene rather than cook with unresponsive electric cooktops.

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07/26/2023 12:25 PM

unresponsive? Depends on what you are used to. I grew up with an electric stove, so that is my "standard." Gas stoves are immediate on, which can be useful, and immediate off. While cooking oatmeal for breakfast, the residual heat of the electric stove is useful--I can turn it off, then go shave while the oatmeal finishes cooking. Gas wouldn't do this!

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07/26/2023 4:26 PM

True, the same thermal mass that can be so frustrating can be helpful as well under different circumstances. I too grew up with electric cooktops but since I've had gas for the last 26 years, I never want to go back. I do have an electric hot plate if I need to simmer something on really low heat or a Crockpot.

I avoid using the lowest flame on the stove for an all-day simmer because it is too easy to blow out the flame and I don't like leaving an operating stovetop gas burner unattended.

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07/26/2023 5:07 AM

Does "resulting in concentrations measured in bedrooms that exceed national and international health benchmarks" mean one might develop lung cancer from it?

Since it takes about nine times more fuel for electric heating than direct fuel heating, whick contributes the most to pollution?

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07/26/2023 5:10 AM

This raises some questions in my mind.

  • Where does the benzine come from? Is it already in the air? is it a product of combustion? is it so stable that it is not consumed by the combustion process?
  • if the benzene is produced as a result of burning gas, how can an electric stove produce 10-50 times less benzine? (please forgive the arithmetical approximation) Surely an electric element will produce no benzine at all in the kitchen. If the electricity was produced by gas combustion, it would happen at the power plant.
  • What is the concentration of benzine in the air that is harmful to health?
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07/26/2023 12:05 PM

How dare you ask reasonable and thoughtful questions? The unstated purpose for this kind of study and others like them is to outlaw gas stoves. There is no such thing as a risk vs. benefit analysis. It's all about the green agenda.

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07/26/2023 12:17 PM

What about CO2? I thought it was one of the primary products of combustion.

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