Re:Proposed US Rule for Portable Generators Will Save Thousa...
by fragmede on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:59PM
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> I have a clue and won't run it indoors.
You say you have a clue, but unfortunately, someone looking at you can't tell if you actually have a clue or if you're an idiot that doesn't. And idiots without a clue will happily claim that they have one. The device is already covered in very clear warning labels that someone without a clue could use to get a clue. (The problem is people who are too smart, and think they have a clue but actually really don't. Which is unfortunate because they look the same as the other people, but loudly think the rules don't apply to them.)
Which leads to the other way we accomplish this, which is to allow people to sit through a course and take a test in order to get a license to do certain things, like drive or fish or remove asbestos or have pyrotechnics.
The challenges of modeling exactly sufficient airflow accurately isn't a short course, so regulation requiring a sensor is the least bad answer.
You say you have a clue, but unfortunately, someone looking at you can't tell if you actually have a clue or if you're an idiot that doesn't. And idiots without a clue will happily claim that they have one. The device is already covered in very clear warning labels that someone without a clue could use to get a clue. (The problem is people who are too smart, and think they have a clue but actually really don't. Which is unfortunate because they look the same as the other people, but loudly think the rules don't apply to them.)
Which leads to the other way we accomplish this, which is to allow people to sit through a course and take a test in order to get a license to do certain things, like drive or fish or remove asbestos or have pyrotechnics.
The challenges of modeling exactly sufficient airflow accurately isn't a short course, so regulation requiring a sensor is the least bad answer.