From: Serendipity 
Newsgroups: alt.energy.homepower misc.consumers.house misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: Re: Oil/Pellet Stoves?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:15:37 -0400

Ron Peterson wrote:


>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:41:30 -0500, me@privacy.net wrote:
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>>>>Have you looked at corn stoves, they work well. 
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>>>Are they really cost effective tho?
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> If the price of corn is low, they can be cost effective.

The ones we were looking can be seen at http://www.GrainStovesInc.com 
They burn wheat, rye, and corn so if the price of corn is high one 
season, you might be able to get one or the other grain cheaper.  The 
nice thing about these stoves is they are environmentally friendly too.
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>>They have to be very tiny. What do they do? Hollow out a corn thing?
>>What do you put inside to burn? How do you keep the rest of the corn
>>from catching fire?
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>>OK, its the cob. I just remembered the cob. They make pipes out of
>>them so I guess they are fireproof.
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> They use shelled corn.
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