The same American research team that revealed gas stoves can emit methane, even when they're not turned on, has arrived in Australia to test pollutants inside kitchens.
abc.net.au/news/kitchen-pollutants-study-australia-looks-at-gas-stove-health/102109372In the driveway of a Melbourne home, a team of American scientists huddles around the boot of an electric car, peering at a line of machines inside.Scientists will take air quality readings and gas samples from Australian kitchensThey are monitoring pollution levels from the home's unventilated kitchen, where a gas stove is switched on.
"It looks like it's now 495 parts per billion ," says Eric Lebel, a research scientist specialising in energy. According to the National Environment Protection Measure, the maximum concentration standard for NO2 for one hour is 80 ppb.gas stoves there could emit the greenhouse gas methane, even when they were not switched onIn Australia, the team's work aims to build on that knowledge and to learn more about the health and environmental impacts of natural gas stoves here.
Brigid Lynch signed up to the study to find out more about the possible effects of the gas stove in her rental home.
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