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If your house is on fire, you best GTFO no matter what kind of refrigerator you have. American homes have plenty of propane/natgas appliances anyway, so what d
by slackdog 4y ago
If your house is on fire, you best GTFO no matter what kind of refrigerator you have.
American homes have plenty of propane/natgas appliances anyway, so what difference does one more make?
- xxpor 4y agoPeople usually store their propane tanks outdoors.
- msandford 4y agoAnd they have natural gas piped into the house.
- xxpor 4y agothe volume in a pipe is a lot less than what you'd find in a tank, especially considering the pressure in said pipes is usually one tenth of a psi (.6 kPa)
- msandford 4y agoIn the US it's typically more like 0.25psi, I don't know about elsewhere. But it's connected to what you might consider a tank of nearly infinite volume. It's flow rate limited, but it's fast enough to get an entire house to explosion concentration in much less than a day. Perhaps only an hour. Point is that we humans manage to figure out how to harness things that might be dangerous when they're useful. And hydrocarbon refrigerants can be very useful so we might figure out how to deal with the relatively small danger they pose.
- xxpor 4y agoI don't disagree to be clear, I'm just saying treating it differently than a gas pipe isn't totally crazy. A punctured refrigerant line will empty in a few minutes, and it's next to a compressor that'll likely generate a spark when it kicks on. Even if it just means we need to use thicker line, lets do it.