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

[Robert Moskowitz (robertm]

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



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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
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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