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Heating oil is expensive. If the oil furnace burns close to a gallon an hour that is around $5! Most are old and have low efficiency, another reason that I want to replace mine with natural gas.
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Natural gas is still cheaper than fuel oil/ diesel. It's the cost of them putting a line in that is expensive. Once it is in it makes a good selling feature if you ever put your place up for sale.
With natural gas prices climbing, people will be looking into alternatives like the solar and wind power that you harness to a bank of battery's to run electric heaters.
With natural gas prices climbing, people will be looking into alternatives like the solar and wind power that you harness to a bank of battery's to run electric heaters.
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The cheapest heat is wheat or comparable cereal furnace, 150/200 bushels to heat a home for the season. Low grade wheat is about $2 a bushel. Grain burns much cleaner than wood with less than 2 percent ash. Natural gas is 4.18 more costly than grain with electricity at 8.6 times. Wood, wood pellets and of course diesel is more expensive then grain for heating. This information is from the Country Press from Nov. 16 2005.
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Wheat or any other grain would be a good way to ehat for me, since my old man is a farmer, and I know I could just go get grain anytime I want, due to the fact I help out them alot. What kind of stove/furnace would a guy need to burn grain..??
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I don`t have that info, in the article is a name, Delmer Hering, a farmer from Bruno near Humbolt. The article mentions that he has a web site but I didn`t see the address. 
West Central Pelleting, Dean Skinner from Wilkie is also mentioned. Seems like a coal burning stove is converted to burn grain. The cost of the stove maybe alittle expensive but as long as grain prices are in the dumper it sounds like a cheap way to heat.
West Central Pelleting, Dean Skinner from Wilkie is also mentioned. Seems like a coal burning stove is converted to burn grain. The cost of the stove maybe alittle expensive but as long as grain prices are in the dumper it sounds like a cheap way to heat.
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