I'm feeling Darwinesque. Even "primitive" societies knew to CUT A FARKING HOLE IN THE ROOF. When I'm in Alabama over the Xmas holidays there are always cases where a trailer full of rednecks turns all pretty pink and dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

some generators are just too big to fit indoors anyway.

It's a Hunterdon county thing

It's right there in the name, GAS GENERATOR!

Allen. The end.: When I'm in Alabama over the Xmas holidays there are always cases where a trailer full of rednecks turns all pretty pink and dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Sounds festive!

numbone: It's right there in the name, GAS GENERATOR!

*farts*

Why yes, I am.
/thanks for noticing

OBVIOUSLY it's only for external use. They don't even taste good.

I can't put em up my butt?

For the last time, indeed.

not even occasionlly for fun or profit? dang it

You're likely to have trouble when the amps hit your anus.

I Read Fark For the Pictures: For the last time, indeed.

I see the problem with this, you have to hook it up to the power grid of the house some how and most people don't know how to setup a water proof sealed power cable that connects to anyplace but the main breaker downstairs. Also when you need to use it is when the weather outside is really really cold, or in a hurricane. So being outside is a bad idea as well. I wonder if there is some way of piping the exhaust out of a house while keeping it inside so you can operate it by hand.

Last time for that guy, that's for damn sure...

Awesome work subby, I'm sure everyone considering using these indoors just read your PSA and realized just how foolish they are. Good thing we caught it the last time you said it right?

What the hell good is power out in the yard? I'd be freezing in the house... idgit!

Don't leave the holiday tree in your house until Valentines Day.

/after New Years, it's over man, let it go.

Thisbymaster: I see the problem with this, you have to hook it up to the power grid of the house some how and most people don't know how to setup a water proof sealed power cable that connects to anyplace but the main breaker downstairs. Also when you need to use it is when the weather outside is really really cold, or in a hurricane. So being outside is a bad idea as well. I wonder if there is some way of piping the exhaust out of a house while keeping it inside so you can operate it by hand.

I'm pretty confident I could build box in my living room maybe 4-8 feet on each side with 2x4's, wrap it with some heavy duty plastic sheeting, tape it up good, have probably 10-12" ducting going in and out of the box that run outside, and probably a decent fan on each pipe. but you're probably looking at hundreds of watts to move enough air to make that work. I'd have carbon monoxide detectors around, but no reason that shouldn't work, but if you do it wrong you die so nobody will recommend you do it. probably a fire hazard too.

Luckily gas-powered generators always come with nice quiet mufflers so people don't feel obligated to operate them behind closed doors.

I guess they dared to be stupid.

theorellior: I don't believe it. Next you're gonna tell me that charcoal grills aren't to be used in the kitchen.

For some reason, this power outage has people desperate. So far, I've seen people who are heating their homes with the burners on their gas stoves, people running generators in basements and garages, and scariest...a charcoal grill burning in a child's room for heat. Almost 300 ppm of CO there. They're lucky the kid isn't dead.

And it isn't like it's below freezing and death is threatening. My house hasn't dropped below 49 degrees. I can't believe how these people can't suck up a few days of minor convenience without doing something completely insane.

A Spring Garden Road resident, though, said JCP&L representatives and crews made it clear to her and others on more than one occasion earlier this week that, since only about 20 people live in the neighborhood, repairs to downed power lines nearby were not a priority there.

"We've been told before, like during Irene, that there's not enough people on the road," Victoria Todd said.

She called the company's response to the outage, particularly from crews assessing damage nearby, irresponsible and arrogant.

"They just said we were way down on the list," Todd said. "I have a feeling if the Stephenses didn't perish, I wouldn't have power."

Holy shiat, what a biatch. She's trying to use their death to get a faster response the next time the power goes out.

They had the generator in the garage, they probably thought that was ok.

Goimir [TotalFark

If I had a stake in the CO alarm industry I'd be clamoring for a law to mandate their installation ala smoke detectors.

/only source of CO in this place would be a house fire

Those things can cost upwards of $25.

/Not too many households have that kind of money to throw around these days.

...like the blood on my arm.

Thisbymaster: I see the problem with this, you have to hook it up to the power grid of the house some how and most people don't know how to setup a water proof sealed power cable that connects to anyplace but the main breaker downstairs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=extension+cord

numbone: It's right there in the name, GAS GENERATOR!

It generates gas? Get me 5 of them.

lizyrd: And it isn't like it's below freezing and death is threatening. My house hasn't dropped below 49 degrees. I can't believe how these people can't suck up a few days of minor convenience without doing something completely insane.

They bought the generator "in case the power goes out".
Power goes out, they have to use it, to justify the purchase.

Using it wisely, however, is another thing.

And it goes UP HIS NOSE!!!

But shaking the baby's still fine, right??

The movie 'Waterworld' is a classic

/got nothin

That's the same thing people used to believe about go karts.



FREE YOUR MIND.

Goimir: If I had a stake in the CO alarm industry I'd be clamoring for a law to mandate their installation ala smoke detectors.

/only source of CO in this place would be a house fire

They did just that here in CA. Link (new window)

Portable gas, however, is perfectly safe and available from door-to-door Texas oil men who are itchin' like a hound to fill you up.

/wildcard, biatches!
//yeeehaaaw!!

studebaker hoch:
If I had a stake in the CO alarm industry I'd be clamoring for a law to mandate their installation ala smoke detectors.

/only source of CO in this place would be a house fire

Those things can cost upwards of $25.

/Not too many households have that kind of money to throw around these days./i>

Some states require them, but only in new construction/rentals/major remodels. In a new home/major remodel in my region, you need one on every floor, linked to the other alarms in the house. They also require a smoke alarm on every floor and in every bedroom. Thus a CO alarm going off in the basement (from a malfunctioning furnance) will set off all the alarms in the house (even the smoke detectors in the bed room)

The only bad thing about CO alarms is that they only last 7 years. Most will start beeping/going off at that point in order to force you to purchase a new one.

cig-mkr: Runs my whole house when the power is out. 12KW, runs on natural gas, automatic transfer switch.
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costs 10k, but if you got it it's a sweet way to go. 1-4k for a nice quiet honda portable is pretty awesome too.

Thisbymaster: I wonder if there is some way of piping the exhaust out of a house while keeping it inside so you can operate it by hand.

Here you go. (new window)