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Dave Lyon
 
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Default Corn Furnaces make national news


How dry is that ton of corn? Water costs, twice, you pay for of on
delivery and you pay for it in the lowered process efficiency, right?


It's supposed to be below 15%. If not, the corn will start to mold, and it
won't burn well.


There's lots of woodchips around but they're wet, too. I assume
pellets are a byproduct of some manufacturering process that has
already dried the wood.


When the wood arives at the pelletizing plant, they grind it into sawdust,
then dry it. Then make pellets.