Before it's gone, I'm running some tests with the gas stove. I want to make some comparisons over on Connextras.
Boiling approx. 5 liters of water (most in a pot, some in a kettle) brought indoor CO2 levels from 818 ppm to ~1200 ppm *with the extractor running*
And now that I'm in the middle of cooking a meal which needs the oven, we're here and climbing. This meter is approximately 30 (9-ish meters) feet from the stove.
It's not great, folks!
1440 as I hit Toot!
@TechConnectify Am I misunderstanding this? You're measuring carbon dioxide levels (not carbon monoxide levels)?
I didn't think higher concentrations of CO2 were dangerous, as long as atmospheric oxygen was greater than 19%
Carbon Monoxide is the silent killer, but High CO2 isn't generally risky unless the O2 levels are being depleted in kind.
I could be wrong, all my knowledge on the subject is from prior confined space work.
@TechConnectify Thanks for the context. That makes sense. I've never used a gas stove, so never really thought about it honestly. I've heard they're in the news lately but tend to avoid the news outside the retro tech space lol.
@yestergearpc so, you don't have context as I haven't explicitly put it in these toots. But here is the deal: CO2 is pretty tame but easy to measure, and I'm using it as a proxy for how present other things such as particulate matter and nitrous oxide might be in the air.
When CO2 goes up from using the stove, that means that all the other particulates and crap that it's emitting are also going up and that building ventilation is not taking care of it