One simple way that coal plant managers can adopt is to simply replace part of the coal they load into their plants (up to 20%) with dried biomass like sawdust, wood chips, dried walnut shells, etc.

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Once the wood is kiln-dried, fungi can no longer grow and the spalting becomes frozen in time.

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In Eber, a village of about 1, 000 people, 15 people were crushed to death in houses made of sun-dried mud bricks and wood.

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