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F.O.A.D.

On 8/21/13 12:06 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:43:13 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/21/13 11:22 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
Saw a duel fuel stove the other day... It said it ran on pellets or
dried corn. I have never heard of a corn fired stove, any insight, any
experience out there with them? Thanks.

The stove in the cabin out by the river is a multi-fuel stove, and our
partner, who spends more time there in the winter, buys large sacks of
dried corn fuel, 50-pound sacks, I think. We talked about it a couple of
times, and I think I remember him saying the corn burned hotter but was
fussier to get and keep burning properly than pellets. I don't mess with
the stove; I just turn on the electric baseboard heater if it gets
really cold.

I had a coal stove in my Md house. I imagine my Ex still has it.

If you burned hard coal it was really pretty clean and didn't smell
bad.
I got lucky when I met a guy from West Virginia who hauled UHG hard
coal to Dahlgen a few days a week. I rescued him on 270 one night, got
him to the IBM Gaithersburg office where he could get a service truck
to get his truck going and the next day he dropped about a ton of coal
in my yard.
I bet she is still working her way through that. This was that real
shiny anthracite that doesn't leave any residue on your hands, burns
blue with no smoke. It looks like black glass. A few of baseball sized
chunks will burn for hours.

If I were building anew up here, I'd still go with gas heat units, with
earth-cooled piping for heat pump air conditioning coolant. Coal? No
way, Jose.