Colder than a penguin's tail feathers, what's in your hopper?

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tjnamtiw said:
Keep arguing but................. http://extension.psu.edu/natural-re...lled-corn/heat-energy-content-of-shelled-corn

Corn is more uniform than pellets so it stands to reason that you would be able to feed more POUNDS/HR which would translate into more BTU/HR, which leads you to believe that corn is hotter. So you really are looking at feeding the same heat content per pound material at a higher rate. You just use more pounds per hour. This is the same phenomenon that leads to the misnomer of 'hotter' pellets.
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Interesting read, thanks for posting. The feed rate being higher due to shape and size of the fuel is noteworthy as well, as far as "pounds per hour", I have never taken the time to estimate, I just know it seems the hopper always needs filled using corn or pellets. I understand I am posting on a pellet forum so "Argue" May not have been the best choice of words. I will leave it at per my experience in the several years I have had multi fuel stoves I have found that I get more heat(room air) out of corn than I have out of any pellet that I have had in the hopper.
 
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