posted on Mar, 3 2023 @ 10:06 PM
originally posted by: JIMC5499
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
The gasses created by cooking are heavier than air. They rise while they are hot and then sink when they are cold. Most places have draft vents that
lead to their furnace. When the furnace is on most of the gasses are vented to the outside.
Of course, that's why stove vents in restaurants have a fan and like you say the cold air return of the forced air furnaces would remove the heavier
CO after it cooled any way.
This was something I considered when I was running my generator earlier in the week. It's outside about ten feet off the end of the house. The exhaust
is facing north, as is the back side of the house, and the wind comes from the west so that could potentially kick it back in. However, I considered
that the CO when hot would rise in a cloud while the exhaust pipe forced it some ten plus feet away, so it had to be even farther out when it cooled
and ended up along the ground. Anyway, no one got carbon monoxide poisoning during the 22 hours of near continuous run time needed during the ice
storm outages.
edit on 3-3-2023 by MichiganSwampBuck because: For Clarity