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Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels (news.slashdot.org)
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The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health -- and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are.

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

You're probably on that puny ~110-120 volt supply.

Electric isn't bad when there's enough of it.

I'm currently looking directly at a ~400 volt stove. (My sauna stove, not mainly for cooking, although grilling sausages in a sauna is not unheard of.) I think my cooking stove is on the same sort of high power supply though. And even the regular outlets are 240v.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Apologize for ruining the humor with pedantry but …

    You’re probably on that puny ~110-120 volt supply.

    Assuming this is a dig at the US, major appliances like stoves use 240v circuits. I think there are a couple possible but my new stove circuit is 50a 240v, the same as my car charger.

    Induction stoves are something where you can still make fun of us though. They are rare and most are expensive. I just converted from gas to induction and none of the three places I went to even had a display model so I Could see what an induction stove looked like

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    Well, yeah, because we've got twice that on stoves and 240 on regular outlets? So it's still just half of what most of Europe is using. Which would very well explain the difference in experiences.

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