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Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by kragen on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:42PM (#33826485)
radon decays into dust in a couple of days, but natural gas deposits are tens of millions of years old and have been out of touch with potential radon-generating rocks for weeks or months by the time they reach your stove burner

getting radon out does not cost money

Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by moloch-hai on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:59AM (#33830474)
In a week or three, anyway. Anywhere somebody has bothered to liquify the NG, the radon will have decayed before it gets vaporized again. Where pipelines lead straight to gas wells, the dwell time in the pipeline before it is burnt could be quite short. But there might be negligible radon even at the wellhead, as it would need to be picked up from surrounding rock on the way out, unlike e.g. helium which accumulates.

Probably other toxins are more important: mercury vapor and hydrogen sulfide are usually mentioned. Hydrocarbons other than methane may burn to carbon monoxide or soot. Gas is said to get much less processing before delivery than it used to.

SpaceX will probably purify theirs before pumping it aboard, just to increase the useful life of their Raptor engines.

Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher deterg... by kragen on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:10AM (#33830563)
good points