I have been wishing for a wood furnace for our house. I grew up with one and it was so much better, easier to pay our heating/electric bills for the wood rather than gas heat. I hadn't even considered a pellet stove even though I've heard of them. Looking at costs and other aspects it seems like it might be just about the same cost to purchase and have installed a pellet stove as it would be for a wood stove.
What would you estimate is your average winter expenditure of electricity for the stove since it has to use electricity to continue pulling corn from the pellets as it burns the pellets?
How new is your furnace? How frequently do you have to load it with fuel?? How big of a load does your furnace hold?? Do you have a top load or bottom load stove?
For those who complained that this method of heating would be more hazardous for the environment I found
this.
And also learned that "Compared to EPA-certified wood stoves that give off about 5 grams of particulates per hour, pellet stoves have very low particulate emissions, some far less than 1 gram per hour."
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It seems that I am going to have to consider this possibility for heating more seriously. It seems to be the cheapest and overall possibly the most environmentally sound (Disregarding solar panels, etc.) method of heating my home. If you consider that the fuel is made from recycled materials that might otherwise be wasted and the pollutant output is relatively low compared to other forms of heating - I think this sounds like a great idea.