On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:54:18 -0600, granpaw
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

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And I thought I'd read in this thread somewhere towards the beginning tha
the corn should be completely dry.
I'm wondering if it isn't more like I had heard when the corn furnace came
out here in northern wisconsin the a higher moisture corn would give a
higher temp (steam?)..hmm makes sense to me unless I'm missing something.

Two things wrong with that.

Wet stuff tends toi burn slower, so you get lower temperatures. It
probabky also smokes more. Smoke is heat going to waste.

Creating steam from water _takes_ heat. The hot steam then goes up the
chimney along with its borrowed heat. Wet corn would be as bad as wet
wood.