Not So Fast re: "Banning" Gas Stoves

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well with this being the latest and most current thread on banning or at least restricting natural gas, have any of you have any memories of those flaming smokestacks called gas flares?

Seen them in aerial views of industrial areas of cities in movies or on tv?

Driven around or by them or like me once tried to get real close to one while driving in such an area and instead of a long, tall structure one I’d tried to get a close-up was a relatively short, fat shaped like a volcano-like vessel…

Mom and dad answered my sister and I questioning those when we’d seen and be told that this or those are called GAS FLARES by dad anyway, mom answering that they were for burning wasted gas…

Any still working or just about nearly all of out of or going out of commission?

— Dave

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare

 

[justjunque]

Dave,

I've seen a couple of those flares around here; on the outskirts of landfills. Someone told me it was to burn off methane. I don't know if that's accurate or not.
And, since I don't get out as much as I used to, I don't know if they're still active.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

JUST JUNQ: Well as I’d said I live around many urban areas so it struck me the thought of a central part of my local skyline seems to have recently been missing which is why I thought I’d pose my musing on it here and methane as you’d mentioned plays a key word there…

— Dave

 

[sudsmaster]

 

 

I probably said this before here, but I much prefer cooking with natural gas than with electricity. When I bought this house in 1997, it had an old glass top Corning electric cooktop, which I hated. I replaced it within a year with a gas cooktop, and that has worked out well.

 

The wall oven in the main kitchen is electric. The place does have a patio kitchen, with an electric range, and I picked up a gas range for that, but still haven't installed it. As I recall, I had someone run a gas line to a spot under the house (crawl space) which would probably work just fine for that range. When I get a round toit.