People dying from CO poisening running generators indoors

[Pacfanweb]

Only ones I'd feel sorry for is any children that might also perish. The ones who started a freaking internal combustion engine inside any building and stayed in there with it have to be idiots. If they're too cold, they could go to a local school gym or something....there's no way there isn't somewhere for them to go.

 

[sandorski]

We are all doing the same, with CO2. Am I evil for not caring?

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: Newbian
Get a $5 extension cord and plug in a heater running from inside to outside.

How hard is that?

Not hard at all, and I had a friend who did this very same thing, but he still, was killed. Guess it was because he was stupid and deserved to die.

 

[Brainonska511]

Never underestimate the power of stupid.

I saw it all the time when I was working in a grocery store.

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: AreaCode7O7
Happened in Seattle a few years ago during the power outages. A lot of the people that died were LEGAL immigrants who couldn't speak the language well enough to read the warning labels and hadn't grown up with grills and generators so had no idea it was dangerous. The Times wound up printing a warning as their headline in eight languages in giant type.

Well KY is filled with hillbillies and rednecks who can't read also.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: sandorski
We are all doing the same, with CO2. Am I evil for not caring?

What?

CO != CO2. CO will bind fairly irreversibly to the RBC in place of where O2 would normally bind; thus oxygen cannot reach your cells and they cannot make large amounts of ATP in the mitochondria, essentially starving your body of energy.

CO2 doesn't bind nearly as tightly and thus isn't as deadly. Of course, high concentrations of CO2 will also kill you.

If you're referring to CO2 output by large factories and cars, much of that ends up in the upper atmosphere, where it acts to reflect thermal energy back to the ground as a greenhouse gas.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: sandorski
We are all doing the same, with CO2. Am I evil for not caring?

What?

CO != CO2. CO will bind fairly irreversibly to the RBC in place of where O2 would normally bind; thus oxygen cannot reach your cells and they cannot make large amounts of ATP in the mitochondria, essentially starving your body of energy.

CO2 doesn't bind nearly as tightly and thus isn't as deadly. Of course, high concentrations of CO2 will also kill you.

If you're referring to CO2 output by large factories and cars, much of that ends up in the upper atmosphere, where it acts to reflect thermal energy back to the ground as a greenhouse gas.

I should have bought you that chemistry geek shirt for the ATOT SS

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: sandorski
We are all doing the same, with CO2. Am I evil for not caring?

What?

CO != CO2. CO will bind fairly irreversibly to the RBC in place of where O2 would normally bind; thus oxygen cannot reach your cells and they cannot make large amounts of ATP in the mitochondria, essentially starving your body of energy.

CO2 doesn't bind nearly as tightly and thus isn't as deadly. Of course, high concentrations of CO2 will also kill you.

If you're referring to CO2 output by large factories and cars, much of that ends up in the upper atmosphere, where it acts to reflect thermal energy back to the ground as a greenhouse gas.

Sigh, you Fail.