I hear ya Fisher... I actually went to a coal burning power plant in KY when I worked for a hydraulics comapany. We made the power units that controlled the valves that controlled the amount of steam going into a turbine. It was actually one of the cleanest industrial buildings I have ever been in!! I expected there to be a layer of coal dust on EVERYTHING but there wasn't. Even more amazing because they actually grind the coal into a fine powder and blow it into the furnaces. Not a billowing cloud of black smoke I expected either.
That being said, I'm sure there's stuff you can't see... Plus the hydraulic oil they used is nasty stuff... Ever wanna repaint your bike? It'll strip it right down for you. It's like anything, there's more than meats the eye, kinda like Transformers. You know hydrogen powered cars actually use more fossil fuels than cars because of the energy used to process the hydrogen? Crazy...
