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| Smart Building Products offers corn burning technology for home use  Smart Building Products, the online source for energy efficient product technology, now offers a solution to America's fuel crisis—cost and energy saving corn stoves for residential use. Energy engineer and Smart Building Products Vice President Eric Ackerly has provided many commercial corn-based boiler plant options to large facilities in the Northeast including Penn State University and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. He now proudly offers this energy and cost-saving technology for home heating use. Residential corn stoves are a cheaper and cleaner alternative to heating with natural gas, oil and propane and are easy to install and use.They require only a dryer vent through an outside wall and usually require less than two hours to install. After setup, simply pour in a 50 lb. bag of corn, light the fire and walk away. It is not necessary to keep an eye on the stove, poke it or constantly add fuel to it. Corn stoves burn for at least 24 hours, depending on the setting selected, which is based on the outside temperature. Corn stoves don't produce messy ashes like wood and pellets do, only a small clump that can be crumbled to enhance any lawn or compost pile. In addition, inefficient fireplaces can be converted with a corn-burning insert. Over 10 billion bushels of hulled corn are produced annually in the United States, making it the most widely available heating resource, renewable every 120 days. An extensive and very mature distribution system and delivery network already exists to bring corn across the country for livestock feed. Corn heat exhaust is environmentally safe, CO2 neutral, and non-toxic. No additional carbon by-products are released during combustion into the home or into the atmosphere, which helps eliminate the buildup of greenhouse gases. If corn is spilled, it does not contaminate the soil or groundwater and would not require remediation. Additionally, corn stoves do not require special permits. In addition to large biomass boiler plants for commercial applications, Smart Building Products offers three corn stove sizes and models available for purchase with direct shipping options as an Amaizeablaze corn stove authorized dealer. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |