New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings

Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by gwbas1c on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:35PM (#35756895)

Indoor pollution from a gas stove has more to do with how the building was built.

Older construction leaks a lot more air than newer construction, primarily due to changes in code. More specifically, the air in an older home, from the 1980s, might change over every four hours or so. In a newer home built to modern building codes, it's eight or ten hours.

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by CydeWeys on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:31PM (#35757405)

Hours is still an awfully long time to have dangerous chemicals floating around in your air after each time you cook a meal.

My apartment has a gas stove, which I was was induction. The gas stove plus the lack of a hood that vents to the outside means the indoor air quality gets pretty messed up. I usually have to open some windows when cooking, which is not great in winter.

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by amluto on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:41PM (#35758388)

Your stove may well cause quite dangerous NOx in rather less than 4 hours:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707/suppl...

See the last page.

What you need is a real vent that vents outside. Or a stove that doesn’t emit NOx (and carbon monoxide, etc).

Frankly this whole thing is a bit absurd. Everyone ought to know that flue gas from a furnace or water heater is extremely dangerous when it ends up indoors. Why are gas stoves ever considered okay?

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