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"A report from Australia’s Climate Council, released last week, finds that the
health impact of having a gas cooktop in your home is roughly equivalent to
having a cigarette smoker puffing away in the corner, and accounts for about
twelve per cent of childhood asthma. “It’s odourless, it’s invisible, it’s a
bit of silent enemy,” the C.E.O. of Asthma Australia said. “People might feel
differently if they understood that their gas appliances were emitting a range
of toxic substances.” That is why the gas industry has lobbied so hard to
prevent that perception. In at least fourteen U.S. states, the industry lobby
is pushing bills that would prevent local governments from restricting the use
of gas; a particular threat comes from the new appliances—chiefly air-source
heat pumps and water heaters, and induction cooktops—that are now widely
available and increasingly cheap. (Even the Wall Street Journal, whose opinion
pages unfailingly defend the oil-and-gas industry, admitted in a review that
induction cooking is “safer and faster than gas.”) Indeed, leaked documents
obtained last week by E&E News show that fifteen big gas utilities have mounted
a Consortium to Combat Electrification."
Via
libramoon@pluspora.com.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
