Posted by Steve on December 12, 2005, 1:51 am
Excerpts from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113434413248219685.html
Roughly 30,000 people snapped up corn stoves and corn furnaces this
year, twice last year's total.
The furnace is made to hook into the distribution ducts of a heating
system and heat the whole house, while the stove is free-standing,
designed to radiate heat in a single room.
The exhaust from both is clean and cool, requiring only a small duct
to the outside, rather than a chimney.
Dried corn doesn't burn easily. The process in modern stoves and
furnaces is controlled by computer chips and temperature probes.
Owners don't continually shovel corn into the furnace. Corn-filled
hoppers on top of the stove do the work.
To make a million British thermal units of heat it takes $22.64 of
heating oil, $33.80 of propane, or $16.47 of natural gas. Burning corn
can do the job for $8.75.
Sales of wood pellet stoves have begun to falter, partly because the
industry can't make wood pellets fast enough., so US Stove Company is
selling a multi-fuel stove. It burns corn, cherry and olive pits, and
alfalfa pellets. Customers report that it also heats up pretty well
when stoked with certain brands of cheap, dried dog food.
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Posted by Rod Speed on December 12, 2005, 3:40 am
> Excerpts from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113434413248219685.html
> Roughly 30,000 people snapped up corn stoves
> and corn furnaces this year, twice last year's total.
Talk about a complete and utter obscenity...
No surprise tho from the biggest collection
of environmental rapists in the entire world...
> The furnace is made to hook into the distribution ducts of
> a heating system and heat the whole house, while the stove
> is free-standing, designed to radiate heat in a single room.
> The exhaust from both is clean and cool, requiring
> only a small duct to the outside, rather than a chimney.
> Dried corn doesn't burn easily. The process in modern stoves and
> furnaces is controlled by computer chips and temperature probes.
> Owners don't continually shovel corn into the furnace.
> Corn-filled hoppers on top of the stove do the work.
> To make a million British thermal units of heat it takes
> $22.64 of heating oil, $33.80 of propane, or $16.47
> of natural gas. Burning corn can do the job for $8.75.
Only due to the terminal stupidity of agricultural subsidys.
> Sales of wood pellet stoves have begun to falter, partly because
> the industry can't make wood pellets fast enough., so US Stove
> Company is selling a multi-fuel stove. It burns corn, cherry and
> olive pits, and alfalfa pellets. Customers report that it also heats up
> pretty well when stoked with certain brands of cheap, dried dog food.
Wota packa terminal fuckwits.
Posted by jw on December 13, 2005, 1:03 pm
> > To make a million British thermal units of heat it takes
> > $22.64 of heating oil, $33.80 of propane, or $16.47
> > of natural gas. Burning corn can do the job for $8.75.
> Only due to the terminal stupidity of agricultural subsidys.
Complete and utter pig ignorant drivel. Or do you have that phrase
trademarked?
> > Sales of wood pellet stoves have begun to falter, partly because
> > the industry can't make wood pellets fast enough., so US Stove
> > Company is selling a multi-fuel stove. It burns corn, cherry and
> > olive pits, and alfalfa pellets. Customers report that it also heats up
> > pretty well when stoked with certain brands of cheap, dried dog food.
> Wota packa terminal fuckwits.
Complete and utter pig ignorant drivel.
Posted by websurf1 on December 13, 2005, 9:28 pm
Oh dear.
Now we have RS and JW, in a drivel battle. An infernal germinal
terminal war.
Insults complete, replete and repeat.
Posted by jw on December 13, 2005, 11:59 pm
websurf1@cox.net wrote:
> Oh dear.
> Now we have RS and JW, in a drivel battle. An infernal germinal
> terminal war.
> Insults complete, replete and repeat.
Not really. This guy annoys me. Which I am sure is his intention. I
just felt a little fiesty and thought I would reply with some of his
own "superior" language.
Seems he doesn't really care, and if he should choose to respond
intelligent (or likely not), I won't perpetuate this little farce.
FWIW: I think heating with corn is an excellent idea. It is a
renewable resource. It would help correct the screwed up supply and
demand curve for US ag products. It has a high energy content, with
minimal resulting waste product. etc etc.
JW
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> Roughly 30,000 people snapped up corn stoves
> and corn furnaces this year, twice last year's total.