It's funny to me, because when it was coined, natural gas made SENSE. See towngas, the majority of gas used in cities, was made at gas plants from coal. You'd have gasplants that created the gas. Natural gas, therefore, was just gas that was natural and not made.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The gas didn’t have carbon monoxide. The gas released carbon monoxide as a byproduct when the gas was combusted to release the heat for the oven.
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year ago
Incorrect. The production of town gas from coal created large amounts of carbon monoxide. People didn't turn the oven on, they just turned on the gas. Suicide rates in england dropped more than a quarter after the switch over to natural gas. Town gas is mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. https://caer.uky.edu/power-generation/coal-gasification/