On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:19:45 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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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.

Heating with corn

For all of these grievances, big and small, there is apparently no ready
answer. Until now. In the past ten years, there has been a revival of a
heating method so obviously efficient that it is remarkable how few
people know of it: using corn for fuel. A corn stove does not burn
stalks or left-over cobs. It burns kernels, less than a handful at a
time. No, the corn doesn?t snap, crackle, or pop. (One of the things
people ask is whether the corn pops as it burns.) Corn contains oil and
ethanol, which burn cleaner than other fuels, and more cheaply, too.
Once you learn how valuable this reasonably priced source of fuel is,
you have to wonder why someone in the government has not caught on to
the idea of using corn for more of America?s energy needs. Given the
current political climate in DC, maybe you don?t wonder at all (but more
about that later).

Corn stoves have been used in the South and Southwest since 1969, when
the stove was invented by Carroll Buckner of Arden, NC. The most famous
demonstration of the stove was in the Oval Office, installed during the
administration of President Jimmy Carter. Even that, as grand a
promotion as one could ask for, was evidently not enough to create a
rush of orders nationally.

Here in New England where people are likely to mistrust ideas that come
?from away,? the corn stove might look to some like a southerner?s
gimmick to use up waste corn. Northerners might also think that any
stove used in the South will not really do the job in their cold
climate. They would be wrong about that.

In the last few years, corn stoves have been showing up for
demonstration at county fairs all over New England. You might have seen
one and passed on by, thinking it was just one more wood stove. The only
difference, at first glance, is that the fire burning in the glass
window is tiny compared to a wood fire. Small as it is, it is capable of
producing 60,000 BTUs or more. A lot of heat.

So when did you move to New England, Kevin?

John (Gun Nut) H.
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