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Gas Stoves Linked to 40,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Annually (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So it's mainly asthma that people develop due to exposure to nitrogen oxide - and treating all the patients puts a considerable burden on society.

Unrelatedly, as a side note, I got curious about Portuguese cooking - for some reason the graphs show that cooking food in Portugal requires a three times higher percentage (30% as opposed to 10%) of overall energy consumption, implying either lower energy use for everything else, or higher energy use for cooking.

I wonder if there's some secret sauce that is only made in Portugal and which is extremely energy-intensive? Or just a case of broken statistics...

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Portugal has very low energy consumption per household and it looks like most cooking is done on oil or gas stoves, which are relativly wastefull.

https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-sector/households/household-eu.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_consumption_in_households