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Summary
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is ongoing.
Hackman, a revered actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from Hollywood two decades ago and spent his later years writing novels.
He lived in New Mexico since the 1980s, remaining largely out of the public eye. His death comes just days before this year’s Academy Awards.
Y’all, hundreds of people die every year from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, and tens of thousands are hospitalized annually. Weird Al Yankovic lost his elderly parents to CO poisoning in April 2004. It’s winter time and Santa Fe is at 7,000 ft (2130 m) of elevation. Please don’t rush to blame and conspiracy.
Can we stop piping natural gas into our homes pls k thx
Gas is nice for some things, but for heating a brand new heat pump is best.
Actually, the one thing that gas is good for is cooking, but induction is far better. So yeah. No real need for gas to the home.
Only if your kitchen is adequately vented, but most that I’ve seen are not.
A modern gas furnace or water heater will have a flue, and if the system has been installed properly then exhaust gasses, including CO, will get sucked out of the house.
Most gas ovens/ranges are unvented - they just spew combustion products, including CO, directly into the home. Its so bad that the 1st generation of CO detectors had to be retired because they were constantly going off when people would cook dinner. Modern CO detectors will only go off if CO levels remain elevated for hours.
Cooking with gas in a home that lacks a large hood fan that’s ducted to the outdoors is a terrible idea.
Induction isn’t far better for cooking. It’s better for cooking on a flat surface of the appropriate (small) size. It’s bad for cooking with large pans (especially cast iron). It’s bad for cooking with curved surfaces (such as woks). It’s also bad for cooking with non-ferrous materials such as copper and aluminum (it doesn’t work at all for these), so high end copper French saucepans are off the table.
Yes I’m aware of the existence of induction wok hobs. They’re neat but they only work well with a wok of the correct size and shape (otherwise the wok either wobbles around or doesn’t fit) and they’re not very powerful with North American 120V mains power. They also come with a crappy nonstick PFAS wok so you end up buying a separate carbon steel wok anyway.
And none of these will work with a large wok!
I use a big Lodge cast iron pan on my induction stove, and it works fine.
Woks are a trick, though. They were designed with the idea that a flame would flow around them, and that’s just how it is.
When you find another way to transport that much energy, that doesn’t always need to be directly connected to infrastructure, to us with such a high ROI, you’ll be famous and rich because you’ll have solved the world’s energy crisis.
Solar panels with attached energy storage like batteries or fly wheels.
Meanwhile, I can take a 20kg LPG tank on a donkey most anywhere on earth and let it sit for months before I use it.
I’m not evangelizing fossil fuels here, but I am pushing back because they are an underappreciated energy resource we tale for granted. They make hugely concentrated amounts of immediately available energy potable.
I highly recommend the book When Trucks Stop Running by Alice Friedmann. You’ll never know how profoundly modern society hand trapped itself until you see if by the numbers.
They’re literally the cause of most of our dedicated energy production infrastructure.
No, I don’t care.
s u r e
What you missed here is that the underappreciated aspect is energy density plus portability. That’s it.
If you’ve never been in a taxi in Africa where some guy has 20 gallons of gas in plastic bags and old cooking oil bottles to drive out to a moto driver 100 miles from any sort of infrastructure at all, then I can see how you might not understand viscerally understand this.
There is nothing else to replace fossil fuels at that level of both portability and energy density. We need more work, more innovation, and more development not for people on the grid, but to get the people OFF the grid away from fossil fuels.