Sales hot for corn stoves

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ^ | Mon, Jan. 31, 2005 | Jenni Glenn

[Willie Green]

Renewable fuel costs less to heat homes

The black, cast iron stove emits a rosy glow as if its owner had just chopped a fresh cord of wood to fuel the fire.

But this stove doesn't burn wood. Instead, kernels of dry, clean corn -- a grain grown to serve as livestock feed -- fuel the flames and create a blaze capable of heating an entire house.

Corn stoves are a little-known rarity in the heating industry. But in the wake of high heating prices, a growing number of northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio residents are turning to corn stoves to heat their homes.

[Willie Green]

Related article: Alternative source shells out cheap fuel

[Willie Green]

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[dirtboy]

Well, at least it cuts Archer-Daniels Midland out of the loop.

[Beowulf9]

And watch the price of corn go up........

[WestTexasWend]

But wouldn't the popping keep you awake? ;)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If you use the corn cobs first, you get even more heat.:)

[deport]

If you use the corn cobs first, you get even more heat.:)

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Yes however your charmin cost then increase.......

[shaggy eel]

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[frannie]

Is that a joke? All corn is not pop corn.

Frannie

[Viking2002]

Interesting. My wife and I want to build a log home in a couple of years or so, and I'm also considering alternative/backup heating sources, even over and above the ubiquitous stone fireplaces. We got hammered with ice down here over the weekend, and while we didn't lose power this time, 'been there, done that'.

[SunnySide]

ground source heating if you are allowed to drill on your property is a good source to check out for that log home.

[xcamel]

I'm on my 8th year with a Traeger wood pellet furnace. Dual hot water loop +domestic HW preheat. Runs 75K-135K BTUs. I guess it will burn dry corn also, but never tried it.

The beauty in NY is that there is no tax on wood products for fuel. Heat costs run between $12 and $20 a day, and I only run it when it's colder than 30F. We had one "5 Bag" day when it was -25F. Whole house heat + all domestic HW, sure beats oil and electricity costs.

[WestTexasWend]

Yes, that's why I winked > ;)

[oyez]

I was hoping that it could consume that awful corn sweetener, so the food and drink industry would go back to cane sugar..

[Larry Lucido]

I tried to pop corn on one of these things. It got pretty confusing.

[Larry Lucido]

"We got hammered with ice down here"

Hmm, I wonder if ice can be used as fuel....

[IrishCatholic]

thanks, bookmark for later research

[cyborg]

Heh... Paul Harvey schills for them, and their corn syrup and genetically modified soy.

[cmsgop]

Is there a picture?

[Fiddlstix]

Yes however your charmin cost then increase.......

ROFLMAO!
Good One!