Here's the scenario:  you're hard at work during the day with no thought of the heat in your home.  You hear your cellphone announce a text message:  uh oh, the outdoor stove has a low temp warning going off.  Are you glad you know?  Or do you wish it remained something you discovered when you arrive home in four hours.

Here's a better one, you are a member of a congregation who has decided to use alternative energy to heat your church.  You're one of the volunteers tasked with keeping the heat going.  During the evening at home with your family, you receive a call to your cell phone - the computerized voice in the other end informs you that you have a low temp situation going on with the furnace at the church.  You need to add corn.  ( or wood)  Would this be helpful?

You've just read two descriptions of a technology being brought to market by our partner and friend, http://halfmoontechnologies.com/

We're excited to offer this in our stoves beginning - NOW!  And are looking forward to the benefits our partnership will bring.

Moldy corn was commonly available this fall. At prices 1/2 that of clean/dry corn - it's cheaper to heat your home and shop with too.

EZBurn stoves burn well with moldy corn, as long as it's dry when you use it for fuel.

If you do stock up on moldy corn, you'll want to take precautions when you are filling the stove that you don't breathe the dust off the corn. If you're sensitive to mold, you won't want to be around moldy corn.

Beautiful fall colors, so nice outside.  I'm just cringing to think of what's ahead in January/February.  Even though we stay nice and toasty inside with our corn heat there is still a need to go places.

Today the tropicals are coming in off the patio, their time in the sun is over for this year.  They just hate coming inside.  Even though I keep them in 12 hrs of supplemented lighting (on a timer) they still rebel.  They get taken over by aphids.  They drop their leaves.  They refuse to bloom.  Poor Things. 

By the time I can put them out again in the spring, they're just barely hanging on.   But they make it, and I save lots of money on spring plants, because I've gotten lots of babies from my winter activities. 

They do love the corn ash, I think it helps.

This is the fire as it burns in the EZBurn Outdoor Corn Boiler when it's calling for heat.  ( Controls determine if heat is needed or not and the stove will burn corn accordingly)

Wow.

The new model of our Jumbo is such an awesome stove - it burns like a blast furnace.  I think it could melt metal if that water jacket wasn't keeping the heat distributed.  Check this picture out, here is an actual shop image (with the background removed, of the Jumbo next to the Residential.   The big stove is going up in price in January.  You can see here it's totally underpriced as it is.

You can see the footprint of EZBurn stoves is SUBSTANTIAL.  Half the stove is corn storage.  The built-in bin has advantages, if there's no automated feed system hooked up to keep the corn full, this built-in storage allows for fill it and forget it operations.
Clean the stove and fill the stove and go about your business for the week.  But don't forget the cleaning part, a dirty stove is an inefficient stove.  And if the stove is dirty enough, well it just can't breathe.
This is a picture of some of the viewports we include, to make it easier to tell when your corn levels need to be replenished.  These windows in the back show a very full bin.  In this picture, you can also see the ash auger which is used to simplify and shorten cleaning efforts.

This window next to the control panel shows a tall narrow view which will be the best vantage of when to re-fill.
  Of course you can always get yourself a step ladder and look through the fill port on the roof.
And here is a closeup of the back windows with this stove plumb full of corn.

There's a light inside the bin too, which really helps on those dark winter nights.

As much fun as this summer's been, we all know it's going to come to an end.  We like to try to get our corn bin's filled before the current season's crop of corn comes off the field.  This is because sometimes we can find a farmer who has some sub-standard corn that was left over in his bins from last season and that farmer will need the space for this year's crop.

We place our "corn wanted" ad in Craigs List and hope someone finds it.   If we can get a call, we go check the corn.  In our boiler, we need the corn dry like everyone else - but it can be moldy or dirty.  And this is what gets us the best price when we're stocking up for the winter heating season.

It worked out for us this year, and so we've saved about 1/2 the cost per bushel that "good" corn would have cost.  We do deal with lower BTU's this way, but we still feel it's definitely cost effective.

What about you, have you started getting your corn in yet?

What a beautiful weekend for a fair.  It was warm, but a nice breeze to cool you off.  We met some great people and had some more great conversations.  What a diverse community there is in Hutchinson, MN.

The people from American Energy Systems have a great product, they showed their stoves to perfection.  There were three corn burners going and it really caught peoples eyes.   ( But was a little warm to sit by on an August day)

If you're in the market for an indoor corn burner, you have to check these guys out.  American Energy Systems