Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 28, Issue 34

[OCCNG11 (normangauss]

Robert:

  The absolute amounts are meaningless.  My point was to provide data.  It 
is up to the readers to interpret the numbers anyway they want.  In my 
opinion, it is the relative amounts that are important.

   If you want to burn a gas stove in a typical air-tight home, especially 
without an exhaust fan, you will soon begin to experience a stuffy-air 
environment.  Some people are not affected.  But others develop breathing 
problems and have headaches.  The only solution is fresh air, even if it 
means some heat loss.

Norm Gauss
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Moskowitz" <robertm [at] knowledgetree.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 28, Issue 34


> Yes, but that's after burning a billion BTU. Since the average stove
> burner produces something like 10,000 BTU per hour (usually much less),
> it would have to burn for 100,000 hours (or more) to produce these
> quantities of emissions. If you cook for four hours a day, that's 25,000
> days, or 68.49 years. That's pretty much a lifetime. Each hour, your
> stove is emitting 1.17 pounds of carbon dioxide, or .02 pounds (that's
> 1/50th of a pound) per minute, which would occupy about one-tenth of a
> cubic foot, but which is dispersed all around you and doesn't go
> directly into your lungs. Obviously, the other gases are emitted in
> incredibly smaller quantities than this.
>
> I think context is so interesting, do you?
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> "OCCNG11" <normangauss [at] charter.net>  wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:23:24 -0700
> From: "OCCNG11" <normangauss [at] charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Gas stoves and indoor air quality
> To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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> Emissions from the Combustion of Natural Gas
>
> According to the EPA, natural gas emits the following combustion products
> (pounds per billion BTU):
>
> Carbon Dioxide    117,000
>
> Nitrogen Oxides             92
>
> Carbon Monoxide          40
>
> Sulfur Dioxide                  1
>
> Particulates  (Soot)           7
>
>
>
>
>
> So if you don't mind breathing a little Carbon Monoxide, natural gas 
> stoves
> are just fine.  Just remember though that the ambient oxygen in the 
> kitchen
> is being consumed by the stove, leaving less for you to breathe.  The
> solution to this of course is to have a source of fresh air into your
> kitchen.
>
> Norm Gauss
>
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