Your gas stove is leaking methane, even when it’s turned off

Photo courtesy Stanford. Article by Mark Wilson. Fast Company – January 28, 2022.

I love my gas stove, from its beautiful indigo flames to the way I can twist the knob ever so gently to coax a boiling pot back to a simmer. In every perceptible way, gas stoves are fantastic. But their problems hide where we can’t see or smell them.

In a landmark new paper out of Stanford, published in Environmental Science & Technology, researchers discovered that gas stoves constantly leak methane into the air, even when turned off. […]

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