Wood Pellets
All pellets are not the same, as they are made form different combinations and types of wood. Curenttly there is over 70 companies in the USA that manufacturing pellet fuel and each one has their own secret recipe. The Pellet Fuel Insitute the industry trade assocation regulates the size and quality of the pellet fuel, which they test thinks like ash content analysis. Ash content determines whether a pellet is considered premium (less than 1% ash content or standard (less than 3% ash content.)
North America produces about 300 million tons of corn, wich is enough corn to heat over 115 million homes. Shelled Corn has about the same BTU as wood pellet fuels (8,000 Btu/lb), but has more ash so the maintenance on the pellet stove in terms of ash removal is greater.
One acre will yield 3.8 tons of shelled corn, enough to heat 1.5 homes and is equal to 11.5 barrels of oil. Heating with a closed loop energy crop such as corn can reduce green house gases (CO2) by as much as 5.1 tons of CO2 per home per year.
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