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How about making the hydrogen on demand. Then you could feed the oxygen to the combustion area and consume that at the same time.
If they take away my gas range oven from me I'll just use propane. Me and many others. There's gonna be lots of accidents, fires, etc with people having propane ovens in their homes.
Hydrogen is losing attention recently. Gas when leaking become dangerous for atmosphere.
Plug Power (hydrogen producer) as well as Nicola (hydrogen semi-truck producer), both stocks nose down recently with no light in tunnel for recovery.
WookieMan says
Fuck family, that's baggage and a burden
That's your family, not mine.
B.A.C.A.H. says
If they take away my gas range oven from me I'll just use propane. Me and many others. There's gonna be lots of accidents, fires, etc with people having propane ovens in their homes.
Propane just like natural gas is adulterated with a odor that is QUITE noticeable when it leaks.
richwicks says
B.A.C.A.H. says
If they take away my gas range oven from me I'll just use propane. Me and many others. There's gonna be lots of accidents, fires, etc with people having propane ovens in their homes.
Propane just like natural gas is adulterated with a odor that is QUITE noticeable when it leaks.
I have a propane oven/stove-top and I don’t think I have ever once been afraid of having an accident. It’s all in how you use it, respect it. Really no different than natural gas.
If they take away my gas range oven from me I'll just use propane. Me and many others.
Remember when Morning Joe and Mika said the plot to stop gas stoves was a right wing conspiracy theory?
How in the hell would you have any accident with natural gas or propane??? That's Darwin award material. That's like not knowing how to hook up a hose to a water spigot. If you're that dumb you deserve to die from an explosion if I'm being honest.
I don't even know who that is. And it's a bat shit crazy theory, that's what it is.
People will simply start making wood gas out of anything organic as well:
And it's a bat shit crazy theory, that's what it is. Not trying to incite violence, but anyone wanting to ban natural gas would have some consequences coming is all I'll say. IL is a shit state, but they haven't gone as remotely full retard as CA apparently.
In 2019, Berkeley, California, became the first city in the U.S. to change its building code to ban gas hookups in new buildings. It was a response to the climate emergency: Nearly a third of the city’s emissions came from natural gas.
But the electric range OVEN is not a suitable replacement for cooking with gas. Cooking with an electric range oven SUCKS. It only produces radiant heat, a different concept than the heated combustion products from burning of gas diffusing into the stuff we're cooking.
While I agree that gas ovens are different than electric ovens, I think that most people are fine with electric ovens.
Jeez, they're worried about carbon emission so they create another reason for us to BBQ more often? Silly stupid government.
I don't think they are worried about carbon emissions. You still create carbon emissions in order to create electricity, and converting gas to electricity is at best 40% efficient.
It's said never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, but I think there's an exception to the rule when government is involved. I simply don't believe they are this incompetent. I think their underlyings are incompetent, they are oblivious, but the people doing this are not. You don't have to be smart to realize that an power plant is only around 40% efficient in generating electricity, and that there's transmission losses and then there's the efficiency loss in converting the electricity into useful work. Any junior engineer, even a high school graduate should be able to realize this.
China burns a whole lot of coal to manufacture solar panels so that Californians can smugly proclaim their electrons are all carbon free!
Not trying to incite violence, but anyone wanting to ban natural gas would have some consequences coming is all I'll say.
I think that most people are fine with electric ovens. The big pushback is from those who like gas cooktops.
I think solar panels might possibly produce more energy over their lifetime than they take to manufacture.
California is already doing it:
Those of us who like to cook (bake) with gas, which besides cooking aficiondos would include just about every commercial line cook and chef, will switch to propane before using an range electric oven.... and as you pointed out, which I do often (do it all year in our mild climate) outdoor barbecuing. Jeez, they're worried about carbon emission so they create another reason for us to BBQ more often? Silly stupid government.
Electric stovetops should have never been invented.
WookieMan says
Electric stovetops should have never been invented.
Ironic coming from rural person. The electric stovetops were part of the "all electric kitchen" that allowed rural homes to operate when the only utility available in the boonies was electricity. Those oil tanks work great for heat, but not for stoves.
Patrick says
California is already doing it:
They could do this the right way. Instead of a ban on gas water heaters, why not encourage new construction to use flash heaters at the use location? That is, only cold water is piped through the house and every sink or shower has a small electric flash heater for hot water. This would save from wasting water waiting for the hot water to come from the tank and would never run out. This concept has long been used in England in what they call "power showers."
WookieMan says
Electric stovetops should have never been invented.
Ironic coming from rural person. The electric stovetops were part of the "all electric kitchen" that allowed rural homes to operate when the only utility available in the boonies was electricity. Those oil tanks work great for heat, but not for stoves.
I'm used to cooking on electric coils. I actually prefer it over induction heating but not over gas stovetops. Gas is the best, you can quickly cool and heat and you have pretty precise control of the heat with gas. Induction depends on what pan you are using, gas doesn't so much, other than the thickness of the pan. Electric coils have a ton of hysteresis of heat so it heats up slowly and and cools down slowly. With gas, turn the gas down, and it reduces the heat, with induction heating it's either all on or all off, with electric coils it's a middle between both, but not a good one, it's closer to induction heating.
Agree with all this. They're older now, but my beef with the electric coils or the flat surfaces beyond cooking was a 3 or 4 year old kid putting their hand up there. I've seen it happen. They stay hot forever and unless you train them as early as possible you can walk away and 5 minutes later a kids or hell even an adult has 3rd degree burns on their hand.
We have a ton of nukes here in IL. But we also have a lot of gas power plants. I believe that's most of how CA gets their power if I recall correctly. I honestly wonder if that's the real reason for not allowing gas appliances?
Indoor air quality is, ostensibly, one of the big reasons for the push against gas stoves.
Are Gas Stoves Really Causing Asthma?
A dive into the paper behind the panicked headlines.
The concern is that gas stoves emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, and those pollutants could lead to respiratory issues in children... In their case, they estimate 12.7 percent of asthma cases are caused by gas stoves.
Why would you guys live in CA and even think about this? I'm cooking with gas.
WookieMan says
Why would you guys live in CA and even think about this? I'm cooking with gas.
I'm cooking with gas too. This is non-issue now and there is no guarantee it will be an issue later. (Especially taking into account the recent court decision overturning Berkeleys' attempted ban on gas lines for new buildings). The OP just likes to spread FUD and preach doom&gloom in the US (while prising shitholes like CCCP or Quaddafi's Lybia).
Indoor air quality is, ostensibly, one of the big reasons for the push against gas stoves.
Are Gas Stoves Really Causing Asthma?
A dive into the paper behind the panicked headlines.
The concern is that gas stoves emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, and those pollutants could lead to respiratory issues in children... In their case, they estimate 12.7 percent of asthma cases are caused by gas stoves.
Indoor air quality is, ostensibly, one of the big reasons for the push against gas stoves.
Are Gas Stoves Really Causing Asthma?
A dive into the paper behind the panicked headlines.
The concern is that gas stoves emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, and those pollutants could lead to respiratory issues in children... In their case, they estimate 12.7 percent of asthma cases are caused by gas stoves.
But it's OK for parents to smoke cigarettes inside their homes.
Gas stoves have nothing to do with asthma from your quoted comment. Not directed at you BACAH. But outside of extremely rare cases asthma is generally a made up illness in my mind. My nephew that lives with us "supposedly" has it. My SIL was doing doctors visits and then I started doing them. Doc said he was fine.
Doctors don't care. I've yet to meet an honest one.
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Just generate hydrogen gas from electrolysis. It's NOT efficient at all, but it burns very cleanly and the byproducts are just water, and perhaps some NO2.
It's easy to do and would be relatively safe to operate. Would be no more explosive than natural gas. Production of the gas can be controlled by a float, such that when enough hydrogen is created in the water, either the electrodes are exposed (don't think that's a good idea, because it would wear the electrodes more at the bottom than the top), or just a float that turns on an off a switch to the electricity.
There, a solution for chefs. But it's like 35% efficient. You'd need something like gold or platinum electrodes, and they need to have a LOT of surface area.
This process creates both oxygen and hydrogen and never can the two mix. If you end up with a mixed gas, you basically have a bomb. They oxygen would also have to be vented to the outside, and carefully because any fire near that would burn vigorously.