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Re:Eon Switches All U.K. Customers to Renewable Power by stefan_ on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:50AM (#20390531)
Of course the other pollutants created from burning wood in population centers kill us when inhaled, so we've traded a minor source of CO2, which might kill us through some correlated highly delayed uncertain mechanism in an uncertain future, for something that is actively toxic and cancerous.

Burning wood for heating is the diesel car story all over again. The tradeoff makes zero sense.

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Re:Eon Switches All U.K. Customers to Renewable Power by Nyandalized on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:05AM (#20390609)
Burning anything can be "actively" toxic and cancerous. You can argue about the process of anything, but that shifts the conversation away from the energy source.

Wood doesen't have to be burned in X place, and it _could_ be gathered and processed using clean procedures, but they're outside of the scope of wood being carbon neutral.

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