Nitrogen Dioxide

  Reading an article about perhaps future changes made for the safety of cooking with gas. What was mentioned in future homes may be built for electric stoves only or having a good ventilation system for a gas stove. I thought about gas stoves in campers when they are being used they need to be well ventilated when in use. We cook a lot inside of our camper using the gas stove and oven after reading this article about the safety of good ventilation, we will make sure from now on to use the vent fan. Perhaps there will be for future campers requirements for ventilation and warning signs. With the roof vent fans and a window open I think for a small camper that would be enough ventilation. In the article mentioned cooking with gas has only been in use the past 100 years and fifty years ago it was realized that there were dangers in breathing the harmful fumes of natural gas being burned. They are finding enough evidence that changes need to be made for the future use of gas stoves either discontinuing them or strict requirements for proper ventilation.

Many higher end RVs with large solar and battery systems are configured all electric now. They use induction cooktops which are quite efficient. Not expensive either, 2 burner ones are around 100-200$ and use around 2kw. So if you ran both of them for a hour a day  which would be a quite a lot of cooking, you'd use around 2kwh. That would require around 500 watts of solar to run on an average day. Quite doable nowadays depending on what else you want to run at the same time.

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   The main concern appears to be asthma in children from the pollutants of burning natural gas. I don't think too much will happen anytime soon but I am thinking in the future there will be changes.You can try and search for the article (Gas-Stove ban) under market watch on yahoo.com. There have been some changes already taking place in California and New York limiting the use of gas stove tops and ovens. With everything going electric a better source of electricity will be needed for our cooking and transportation.