Burning Grass Pellets
August 7, 2007 – 12:10 pm | by gaulardcom
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I am in the wood pellet mood. I am a planner, like an old farmer or something. Better yet, like a caveman. There have been times when I have wanted hair like a caveman…ok, I’ll stop there.
Anyway, I was doing some searches on wood pellets and came across a great post on a new idea, grass pellets. Check it out.
I really like the way people are always trying to come up with a better way to do something. The pellet stove is a great idea. It keeps the house nice and toasty and really doesn’t cost that much to run. I mean, I just spent about $630 for the whole season of heat. That’s not bad. It certainly is better than the three dollars per gallon of dirty oil fuel that I used to get. Not to mention all the diesel they burn in the truck to get it to my house.
If they can make stoves handle burning more types of pellets, that would be a good thing. I think the main factor with burning a lot of things is the ash content. People now mainly burn wood pellets and corn, but you need a special stove to burn the corn. I only burn wood pellets, so I don’t really know what type of heat the corn gives off.
Keep up the good work and keep thinking. There are quite a few people out there like me who search this kind of stuff all day while at work. HAHA.
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Tags: ash content, burning grass, caveman, corn, diesel, dirty oil, Environment, oil fuel, pellet stove, Pellet Stoves, stoves, three dollars, wood pellet, wood pellets
2 Responses to “Burning Grass Pellets”
By BioMama on Aug 21, 2007 | Reply
I agree with your observation regarding the different types of fuels. I work for a company that is developing a series of stoves that burn corn, corn pellets and wood pellets. Soon they are going to be testing for other pelletized fuels (grass, sunflower meal, cherry pits, etc) I recently heard that baby diapers are being pelletized for burning. That is great for the land fills. See ya later.
By Charles on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply
If the fuel prices stay where they are and the wood pellet mills up production, wood pellet stoves will become much higher in demand than they already are.
Wait until states like New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire catch on, then were really going to see a burst in the wood pellet stove industry just like the outdoor wood furnace industry. In that respect I mean nobody will be able to get a unit for 6-12 weeks. Companies like Harman are already finding it hard to keep up production.
This industry is becoming so popular that the Europeans are now starting to sell their units here in America.