http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates/2011/02/wood-stoves-may-cause-cancer-heart-disease/ from the WASHplus Project Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.4 http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates/2011/02/wood-stoves-may-cause-cancer-heart-disease/#comment-182 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:29:14 +0000 http://iapnews.wordpress.com/?p=1620#comment-182 If burning wood produces lung-harming particulates or cancer-causing agents like polyaromatic hydrocarbons (similar to the chemicals produced when coal is processed into coke in coke ovens), then the best way to utilize wood as fuel would be centralized electric power stations and steam generating plants for district heating. Here, one could provide emissions control equipment such as baghouses or electrostatic precipitators. Such power plants need not be as huge as the big coal-fired or nuclear power plants that electric companies have. But they should be large enough to benefit from economies of scale.

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