[mikkupikku]

Anthracite burns clean enough to use in a pizza oven. If your neighbor told you he was going to install a new furnace and offered you the choice of it burning wood pellets or anthracite, from a smell standpoint you should absolutely choose the anthracite.

Anthracite, in these regards, is very different from bituminous coal.

[enoint]

Considering the mercury and arsenic in all coal, wood is preferred in ovens.

[hatthew]

And both are very different from not burning anything.

[mikkupikku]

Undoubtedly. Doesn't change the fact that one kind of coal burns smokeless with a clean blue flame while the other will cover everything for miles in a film of soot and tar.

[kube-system]

>Anthracite burns clean enough to use in a pizza oven.

Yeah, so does wood, which is horribly polluting.

[mikkupikku]

The smell of wood might be nice for flavor, but that's beyond the point of anthracite being clean. That particulate pollution from wood burning is severe compared to the smoke you'll get off anthracite, which is virtually nonexistent.

[kube-system]

Regardless of how good it might be at being the cleanest dirty thing, it's not what the US trope of "clean coal" refers to anyway. Anthracite is not used in the US to generate power because it is too expensive.