Whole house heating with corn stoves and corn fireplace inserts is the lowest cost heat available in America today. Clean, safe, quiet, healthy, no smoke, convenient, almost no ash (5 gal per year), use very little corn.
Like everything else, they's good ones and they's bad ones. Be sure to get a modern updated 98% efficient corn stove with NO clinker grinder. Stoves with 40-60% efficiency, like wood stoves, require removing about half the raw fuel as ash. There is less than 1% potash cake and no flyash produced by the 98% efficient corn stove.
Corn stoves have recently been prefected. The older corn stoves with clinker grinders made lots of flyash, were noisy, burned lots of corn, and required high maintenance.
For corn stove and fireplace details go to
www.msnusers.com/clift or
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cornstoves. Contact
[email protected] for any questions and to find a supplier of a good corn stove. Always ask tough questions of recent users who depend on corn stoves as the primary heat source.
Resolve any concerns before the price of natural gas per month cost more than the house payment.