Reply #32: Well, it's safer than coal, but not safer than nuclear. Wood burning link

[NNadir]

Carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, benzene, toluene, benzopyrene, benzo(a)anthracene... this is just a partial list of the compounds found both in tobacco and wood smoke (Click on Woodsmoke 101 in the link below.)

Maybe the McNeil Generating Station only releases 10% of what's allowed, but isn't it entirely possible that 10% of what's allowed is still dangerous? No? Oh, yeah, I forgot. It's biomass, and it's automatically safe because it has the syllable "bio" in it.

Anyway, here's the website of the people who would like to ban wood burning because it's too dangerous:

http://www.webcom.com/~bi/welcome.html

There is no such thing as risk free energy. There is such a thing as risk minimized energy, the latter being another term for nuclear energy.