Wednesday, April 11, 2012

April 11, 2012 - Carbon Monoxide News

“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592, bio link)

UPDATED: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills Peoria Man in Large House Fire
CIproud.com
PEORIA - Carbon monoxide poisoning killed a Peoria man after his home caught fire Saturday night, according to results from an autopsy today. The fire started around 9:00 pm in the 600 block of Shoshone Rd. on the city's north side.

Is it the fuel or is it the technician; is it the manufacturer of the heating equipment or is it the consumer or some combination of circumstances?
Heating oil safety highlighted by new study
BoilerJuice
Research entitled the Downstream Incident Data Report carried out by the Gas Safety Trust examined the number of carbon monoxide poisoning incidents in the UK between July 2010 and June 2011. It also compared data from gas, piped LPG, solid fuel and ...

Cement Production with Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
REVE This would produce a different chemical reaction without a carbon dioxide byproduct. In a study published in a recent issue of Chemical Communications, a team of researchers from Virginia's George Washington University explain a revolutionary way to ...

Slow progress to cleaner coal
Nature.com
Despite being more than a year behind schedule, the GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin puts China at the forefront of global efforts to exploit coal resources without releasing carbon dioxide. In 2008, leaders of the G8 group of nations called ...

Carbon Monoxide Survivor Check in on this website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.

National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011; Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia

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