🔥💨 Tes’in’ New York Apartments: How Dirty Stay Dat Gas Stove, Fo’ Real? 🏢
Da scientists stay luggin’ high-tech sensors inside homes in 10 cities fo’ measure an’ track da pollution comin’ from gas stoves as it float from room to room. 🧪🏢🔬💨
Ev’ry mornin’, wen millyuns of Americans strike da match fo’ light up da gas stoves inside dey kitchens fo’ heat up some watah or cook dey hash browns, dey no jus’ sendin’ ono breakfast smells fo’ drift through da house. Da blue flames stay also let out harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxides, an’ even gases dat make da planet hot. 🔥🍳🌍💨
So one team of scientists from Stanford wen recently start dis testin’ journey inside New York City apartments fo’ bettah understand how much pollution stay deyah an’ how it flow from room to room inside real people’s homes. Dis stay part of one 10-city study dat stay already showin’ how contaminants can quick drift inside living rooms an’ bedrooms, even stay go way far from da stove dat cause ’em. 🏙️🏢🔬💨
Plenny folks stay already worried ’bout da health an’ climate effects of gas-burnin’ stoves, an’ some cities an’ states wen even try fo’ phase out natural gas connections in new buildings. Da federal gov’ment stay tryin’ fo’ make gas stoves mo’ efficient too. But dis issue stay one dat stay get people on both sides. Las’ week in Washington, da Republicans wen gather fo’ one House Oversight Committee hearin’ fo’ “check out da Biden administration’s rules attack on Americans’ gas stoves.” 🏛️🔬🚫
On one cool Sunday mornin’, da Stanford scientists wen start wit dey first stop inside New York City: one public-housin’ project inside Morningside Heights inside Upper Manhattan. Dey first challenge: carryin’ 300 pounds of equipment up to da 18th floor. “I hope get one elevator,” Rob Jackson, one professor from da Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability an’ da team’s leader, said with concern. (Dey get one.) 🌆🏢🚚🔬🔋
Da apartment dey visitin’, one three-bedroom one, stay da home of Tina Johnson, one muddah to three grown-up kids. Da place get one view of da elevated train tracks an’ one kitchen where da air stay fill wit da smells of herbs an’ spices she use fo’ cook her favorite dish, American-style ratatouille. Mrs. Johnson jus’ cook up some fried eggs an’ potatoes fo’ breakfast. 🏡🍳🌿🔥
“I stay glad you guys stay here,” she tell da researchers. She wen jus’ get one new stove installed inside her place, but she still “no can handle da smell” of da gas from it, she say. She wen volunteer fo’ take part in da study through one local climate group, Mrs. Johnson say, ’cause she an’ her kids get asthma an’ oddah health problems. She like know wat her stove stay doin’ to da air dey breathin’. 🙋♀️👩🔬💨
Nose-High Tubes 👃🔬
Da researchers start up dey analyzers an’ put up tubes ’bout nose height fo’ suck in samples of air. Aftah dey take background readings, time fo’ turn on da gas, one small burner on high. 🔬🌬️🔥
Da machines catch da change right away: da levels of nitrogen dioxide go up — dat gas can irritate da lungs, make respiratory diseases worse, an’ cause asthma. Da levels go up to 500 parts per billion, five times da safe limit fo’ one-hour exposure, like da Environmental Protection Agency say. (Da levels of benzene, one cancer-causin’ gas dat stay in cigarette smoke an’ car emissions, also go up triple.) 🔬💨🚫
Dis stay wit da kitchen door shut an’ da window closed too. Mrs. Johnson’s kitchen no even get one stove hood fo’ ventilation.
If she open da kitchen door an’ crack da window like she usually do when she cook, da nitrogen dioxide levels drop to ’bout 200 parts per billion. But dat mean da smoke from da stove now goin’ seep into da rest of da apartment.
Inside one bedroom, da nitrogen dioxide levels go up to ’bout 70 parts per billion, below da E.P.A.’s limit but still above the World Health Organization’s standards fo’ chronic exposure. 💨🛌👃
Scientists stay findin’ more an’ more evidence dat gas stoves stay risky fo’ health. One study from last year say dat gas stoves could be connected to ’bout 13 percent of childhood asthma cases inside da U.S. Research before dis even show dat gas stoves make asthma worse in folks who already get it.
Dey get few simple things folks can do fo’ make da danger less, like openin’ da windows an’ buyin’ one air purifier. 🪟💨💨
One thing dat Dr. Jackson notice ’bout New York homes, he say, is dat people tend to stay way closer to da gas stove while dey at home — dey work, dey relax, dey sleep — den people in da suburbs. All togeddah, he say, “da biggest surprise fo’ me stay how high da levels go, an’ also how quick da pollutants move all ovah da house.” 🏠🏙️🔥💨
‘Dinner Party Scenario’ 🍽️🥘🔥
Da next day, da team back at anoddah place fo’ test, dis time inside one Airbnb apartment inside Central Harlem. Da goal stay fo’ recreate one “big family o’ dinner party situation,” say Yannai Kashtan, one Ph.D. candidate inside earth system science from Stanford an’ part of da research team.
Fo’ make sure dey no get too much exposure, da team members camp out on one balcony, where dey can see all o’ Upper Manhattan. Dey hold dey breath, run in an’ out fo’ check da levels.
In ’bout 40 minutes, da nitrogen dioxide levels go ova 200 parts per billion inside da livin’ room, 300 parts per billion inside da bedroom, an’ 400 parts per billion inside da kitchen. Dat double, triple, an’ quadruple da E.P.A.’s limit fo’ one-hour exposure. Levels of benzene also go up triple aftah da stove start.
Dis stove came wit one hood. “But try dis,” say Mr. Kashtan, as he put his hand in da stream of hot air blowin’ out from da hood. Da hood “no make much difference” fo’ da bad air, he say.
In all, da team stay testin’ eight New York City apartments fo’ one whole day. Dey even go inside one Brooklyn home, where dey scratch dey heads ova one New York thing: da windows all covered wit plastic. Nina Domingo, who live inside da ground-floor unit wit two housemates, say dey did dat fo’ keep da place warm, but dat also mean da ventilation stay not good. An’ on top o’ dat, da kitchen no get one hood dat vent to da outside.
Inside da kitchen area, da nitrogen dioxide levels go up to ’bout 2.5 times da E.P.A.’s limit.
Da results from da team stay still preliminary, but dey match da otha scientific research dat show gas stove emissions make harmful pollution dat mess wit climate change an’ public health. Otha research also show dat da emissions still happen even aftah da stove get turned off ’cause da stoves can leak natural gas, which mostly stay methane, one gas dat make climate change worse.
Ms. Domingo, who work inside technology, say she know ’bout da concerns ova stove pollution. Her previous apartment even come wit one electric induction stove, one kind dat stay real efficient. But wen she decide fo’ move to one biggah place last summah, da competition fo’ apartments stay so intense dat she “couldn’t be picky,” she say.
Change might come soon, dough.
Already, ova 60 percent of American households use electricity fo’ cookin’, an’ da Biden administration wen suggest new rules fo’ make gas stoves mo’ efficient. Dis could save folks ’bout $100 million in energy costs, plus da benefits fo’ climate change an’ health. Plenny cities in mostly blue states wen even ban new gas connections, so new constructions gotta use electric fo’ cookin’ an’ heatin’. But some red states wen try fo’ stop those bans.
Da Stanford team, aftah testin’ stoves inside cities like San Francisco, Denver, Houston, an’ Melbourne, Australia, stay headin’ to Washington next. Dey also plan fo’ test in Europe an’ Asia.
Wat dey ‘spect fo’ find inside Asian cities? Smallah spaces, which could mean higher concentrations of pollutants, an’ mo’ exposure. Dis one global problem, dey say. How bad da problem stay, dey goin’ find out soon. 🌍🏙️💨
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🔥💨 Tes’in’ New York Apartments: How Dirty Stay Dat Gas Stove, Fo’ Real? 🏢
Da scientists stay luggin’ high-tech sensors inside homes in 10 cities fo’ measure an’ track da pollution comin’ from gas stoves as it float from room to room. 🧪🏢🔬💨
Ev’ry mornin’, wen millyuns of Americans strike da match fo’ light up da gas stoves inside dey kitchens fo’ heat up some watah or cook dey hash browns, dey no jus’ sendin’ ono breakfast smells fo’ drift through da house. Da blue flames stay also let out harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxides, an’ even gases dat make da planet hot. 🔥🍳🌍💨
So one team of scientists from Stanford wen recently start dis testin’ journey inside New York City apartments fo’ bettah understand how much pollution stay deyah an’ how it flow from room to room inside real people’s homes. Dis stay part of one 10-city study dat stay already showin’ how contaminants can quick drift inside living rooms an’ bedrooms, even stay go way far from da stove dat cause ’em. 🏙️🏢🔬💨
Plenny folks stay already worried ’bout da health an’ climate effects of gas-burnin’ stoves, an’ some cities an’ states wen even try fo’ phase out natural gas connections in new buildings. Da federal gov’ment stay tryin’ fo’ make gas stoves mo’ efficient too. But dis issue stay one dat stay get people on both sides. Las’ week in Washington, da Republicans wen gather fo’ one House Oversight Committee hearin’ fo’ “check out da Biden administration’s rules attack on Americans’ gas stoves.” 🏛️🔬🚫
On one cool Sunday mornin’, da Stanford scientists wen start wit dey first stop inside New York City: one public-housin’ project inside Morningside Heights inside Upper Manhattan. Dey first challenge: carryin’ 300 pounds of equipment up to da 18th floor. “I hope get one elevator,” Rob Jackson, one professor from da Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability an’ da team’s leader, said with concern. (Dey get one.) 🌆🏢🚚🔬🔋
Da apartment dey visitin’, one three-bedroom one, stay da home of Tina Johnson, one muddah to three grown-up kids. Da place get one view of da elevated train tracks an’ one kitchen where da air stay fill wit da smells of herbs an’ spices she use fo’ cook her favorite dish, American-style ratatouille. Mrs. Johnson jus’ cook up some fried eggs an’ potatoes fo’ breakfast. 🏡🍳🌿🔥
“I stay glad you guys stay here,” she tell da researchers. She wen jus’ get one new stove installed inside her place, but she still “no can handle da smell” of da gas from it, she say. She wen volunteer fo’ take part in da study through one local climate group, Mrs. Johnson say, ’cause she an’ her kids get asthma an’ oddah health problems. She like know wat her stove stay doin’ to da air dey breathin’. 🙋♀️👩🔬💨
Nose-High Tubes 👃🔬
Da researchers start up dey analyzers an’ put up tubes ’bout nose height fo’ suck in samples of air. Aftah dey take background readings, time fo’ turn on da gas, one small burner on high. 🔬🌬️🔥
Da machines catch da change right away: da levels of nitrogen dioxide go up — dat gas can irritate da lungs, make respiratory diseases worse, an’ cause asthma. Da levels go up to 500 parts per billion, five times da safe limit fo’ one-hour exposure, like da Environmental Protection Agency say. (Da levels of benzene, one cancer-causin’ gas dat stay in cigarette smoke an’ car emissions, also go up triple.) 🔬💨🚫
Dis stay wit da kitchen door shut an’ da window closed too. Mrs. Johnson’s kitchen no even get one stove hood fo’ ventilation.
If she open da kitchen door an’ crack da window like she usually do when she cook, da nitrogen dioxide levels drop to ’bout 200 parts per billion. But dat mean da smoke from da stove now goin’ seep into da rest of da apartment.
Inside one bedroom, da nitrogen dioxide levels go up to ’bout 70 parts per billion, below da E.P.A.’s limit but still above the World Health Organization’s standards fo’ chronic exposure. 💨🛌👃
Scientists stay findin’ more an’ more evidence dat gas stoves stay risky fo’ health. One study from last year say dat gas stoves could be connected to ’bout 13 percent of childhood asthma cases inside da U.S. Research before dis even show dat gas stoves make asthma worse in folks who already get it.
Dey get few simple things folks can do fo’ make da danger less, like openin’ da windows an’ buyin’ one air purifier. 🪟💨💨
One thing dat Dr. Jackson notice ’bout New York homes, he say, is dat people tend to stay way closer to da gas stove while dey at home — dey work, dey relax, dey sleep — den people in da suburbs. All togeddah, he say, “da biggest surprise fo’ me stay how high da levels go, an’ also how quick da pollutants move all ovah da house.” 🏠🏙️🔥💨
‘Dinner Party Scenario’ 🍽️🥘🔥
Da next day, da team back at anoddah place fo’ test, dis time inside one Airbnb apartment inside Central Harlem. Da goal stay fo’ recreate one “big family o’ dinner party situation,” say Yannai Kashtan, one Ph.D. candidate inside earth system science from Stanford an’ part of da research team.
Fo’ make sure dey no get too much exposure, da team members camp out on one balcony, where dey can see all o’ Upper Manhattan. Dey hold dey breath, run in an’ out fo’ check da levels.
In ’bout 40 minutes, da nitrogen dioxide levels go ova 200 parts per billion inside da livin’ room, 300 parts per billion inside da bedroom, an’ 400 parts per billion inside da kitchen. Dat double, triple, an’ quadruple da E.P.A.’s limit fo’ one-hour exposure. Levels of benzene also go up triple aftah da stove start.
Dis stove came wit one hood. “But try dis,” say Mr. Kashtan, as he put his hand in da stream of hot air blowin’ out from da hood. Da hood “no make much difference” fo’ da bad air, he say.
In all, da team stay testin’ eight New York City apartments fo’ one whole day. Dey even go inside one Brooklyn home, where dey scratch dey heads ova one New York thing: da windows all covered wit plastic. Nina Domingo, who live inside da ground-floor unit wit two housemates, say dey did dat fo’ keep da place warm, but dat also mean da ventilation stay not good. An’ on top o’ dat, da kitchen no get one hood dat vent to da outside.
Inside da kitchen area, da nitrogen dioxide levels go up to ’bout 2.5 times da E.P.A.’s limit.
Da results from da team stay still preliminary, but dey match da otha scientific research dat show gas stove emissions make harmful pollution dat mess wit climate change an’ public health. Otha research also show dat da emissions still happen even aftah da stove get turned off ’cause da stoves can leak natural gas, which mostly stay methane, one gas dat make climate change worse.
Ms. Domingo, who work inside technology, say she know ’bout da concerns ova stove pollution. Her previous apartment even come wit one electric induction stove, one kind dat stay real efficient. But wen she decide fo’ move to one biggah place last summah, da competition fo’ apartments stay so intense dat she “couldn’t be picky,” she say.
Change might come soon, dough.
Already, ova 60 percent of American households use electricity fo’ cookin’, an’ da Biden administration wen suggest new rules fo’ make gas stoves mo’ efficient. Dis could save folks ’bout $100 million in energy costs, plus da benefits fo’ climate change an’ health. Plenny cities in mostly blue states wen even ban new gas connections, so new constructions gotta use electric fo’ cookin’ an’ heatin’. But some red states wen try fo’ stop those bans.
Da Stanford team, aftah testin’ stoves inside cities like San Francisco, Denver, Houston, an’ Melbourne, Australia, stay headin’ to Washington next. Dey also plan fo’ test in Europe an’ Asia.
Wat dey ‘spect fo’ find inside Asian cities? Smallah spaces, which could mean higher concentrations of pollutants, an’ mo’ exposure. Dis one global problem, dey say. How bad da problem stay, dey goin’ find out soon. 🌍🏙️💨
