'CO is very dangerous.
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From:
kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
3:37
Subject:
Re: WARNING about generators
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:45:33, uunet!netcom.com!bobmacd+1998820Ncsy2 wrote:
> fixxit@bright.net (steve) writes:
>
> >uunet!netcom.com!bobmacd+1998815Ncsy2 was, like, :
>
> >->You may have heard that generators produce carbon monoxide, and that
> >->people have died of this. This is basically true.
>
> >I intend to run my generator in my basement, with the muffler piped to
> >the chimney. Just a little plumbing work. That would be the best way,
> >imo. Your power is protected, and hidden, and safe, with the exhaust
> >piped out of the house.
No! Don't do it. CO is very dangerous. Do not run an internal
combustion engine in a house, attached garage, or attached structure of
any kind. Don't even run it near your house. Do not run it on your
screen porch, if the wind blows the wrong way, the CO can blow into your
house. CO kills.
Build a separate structure, a shed, a block house.
> Some suggestions I've heard for generating power seem like a really
> good way to burn down your house. Or your whole neighborhood, if the
> Fire Department can't function.
Don't store gasoline in your house. Use a separate structure.
> The bottom line is, fossil-fuel generators are nasty, toxic things that
> don't belong in the same space with people. There's no way around that.
>
> >If you must flame me for my impertinence, please do it thru email, so
> >these nice people won't have to see the carnage :)
>
> Not my style...
>
> -Bob
Keep safe.
cory hamasaki 498 days. |
