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It seems there are three separate issues: 1. NO2 produced by gas appliances 2. Various pollutants produced during cooking 3. Poor venting The article mostly p
by wskinner 6y ago
It seems there are three separate issues:
1. NO2 produced by gas appliances
2. Various pollutants produced during cooking
3. Poor venting
The article mostly pushes for legislative solutions to 1, namely banning new gas stoves and incentivizing electric stoves.
I wonder if improving ventilation and filtering might actually be a more effective solution, as it has the potential to address all three issues.
- com2kid 6y agoSo, fun fact, huge differences in efficiencies of removing pollutants even for vented range hoods. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1420274 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1420274 (Kinda long...) tl;dr those stupid microwave exhaust vents may only remove, at worst, ~25% of no2 from the environment. A cheap hood, 30%. A really good hood, 90%.
- ummonk 6y agoSolving 1 partially solves 2 since people will cook a lot less if they have to use electric cooktops.