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1 Large Edit Overhaul
2 Low-cost variation?
3 corn stove
4 Separate articles
5 Fuel cost calculator

[edit] Large Edit Overhaul

I welcome any comments on my additions to the more specific pellet stove page. The blank redirect page is gone, finally.

TheCrippledWerewolf 26 November 2006

[edit] Low-cost variation?

There is a new low cost idea! A Pellet Basket! Burn wood pellets in a pellet basket for your fireplace or wood stoves. Check them out at www.burnwoodpellets.com and see how they work, and how they can save you money on your heating bills. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.83.29.98 (talk) 02:18, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

If there is a low-cost variation on this idea, it might qualify as Appropriate technology. E.g. it could be used for animal dung, which when burnt indoors in Africa causes a lot of health problems.

If there is such a thing and anyone has info on this, it should be added, with a link from that page (Appropriate technology), and the appropriate category added. I'm happy to help - let me know on my talk page --Singkong2005 01:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

There are devices that can be used to create briquettes from grass/dung/sawdust: http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5788&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=671&iSubCat=886&iProductID=5788 There are also small gasifier stoves for cooking/heating, and small can stoves that run on sawdust. But none of these really take advantage of the automatic feeding that is possible with pellets. Creating pellets on a household scale seems to be somewhat difficult. And, honestly, developing countries are already ahead of the curve in creating and adopting many of these technologies anyways. --Benjamindees 19:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll look into it. --Singkong2005 04:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] corn stove

The information on cost of corn needs to be updated. Here in Midwest, corn is almost $3 a bushel this year and the price gap between propane & corn has narrowed. I have a corn stove. Gravemistake 22:21, 26 December 2006 (UTC)gravemistake

[edit] Separate articles

I think that the Corn Stove page should be separate from the Pellet Stove. The reason for this is that many people burn corn because it is less of a CO2 producer than burning wood. That is, wood pellet stoves release more CO2 into the air because they burn wood. Corn, on the other hand, sucks in tons of CO2 but most of it is kept in the stalks which are not burned. There should be links to each other on each page, but please keep them separate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgroves4ward2 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 23 October 2007

Actually, rotting corn stalks release CO2 just as if they'd been burned, where the wood that isn't made into pellets is turned into lumber, and sequester their carbon until the building is demolished.

[edit] Fuel cost calculator

I found this fuel cost calculator at http://www.pelletheat.org/3/residential/compareFuel.cfm/ from the the Pellet Fuels Institute. Could this be added to this entry --Quick5875 (talk) 20:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)