Serendipity wrote:

Bill Bonde ( ``This is the Battle of Epping Forest '' ) wrote:


Serendipity wrote:

Ron Peterson wrote:


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:41:30 -0500, wrote:



Have you looked at corn stoves, they work well.


Are they really cost effective tho?


If the price of corn is low, they can be cost effective.

The ones we were looking can be seen at http://www.GrainStovesInc.com
They burn wheat, rye, and corn so if the price of corn is high one
season, you might be able to get one or the other grain cheaper. The
nice thing about these stoves is they are environmentally friendly too.


How is burning grain environmentally friendly?

Grain is a renewable resource unlike fossil fuels.

It currently takes fossil fuels to grow the grain, a lot of fossil
fuels, and there is great waste in the process, the non-food biomass
being under-utilized, or even not used at all. Taking this high value
food product and burning it for energy is like, well, it's like taking
high value petroleum fractions and not using them in the chemical
industry but instead burning them for energy. Oops. I guess you ain't
alone in this.


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