Corn Furnaces
If you are interested in alternative methods of heating your home, you might want to check out a mid Illinois farmer, Mel Repscher of Taylorville, IL. Mel is manufacturing a patented shelled- corn fueled furnace called A-Maize-Ing Heat Biomass System . Mel and his sons have also purchased a pellet mill that turns grass, crop residues and paper product trash into pellets that can be burned for fuel in simple furnaces. The fuel or pellets are easily transported and stored. The Repscher’s are always looking and researching renewable energy sources.
Being long time farmers they are owners and operators of a 20 acre vegetable farm called Big M Berry Patch. Living on the same family homestead since 1901, the Repscher’s wear many hats extending their knowledge beyond the typical ag production of strawberries, asparagus, rhubarb, potatoes and many other garden variety vegetables.
Farming the Big M Berry Patch in spring and summer, they switch operations in the fall to Big M Manufacturing and produce their corn fueled furnaces until April. Big M produces four corn burner models with forced air and boiler versions. A corn furnace does not burn stalks or left-over cobs. It burns corn kernels. Corn contains oil and ethanol, which burn cleaner than other fuels, and more cheaply, too. Once you learn how valuable this reasonably priced source of fuel is, you have to wonder why the government is not using corn for more of America’s energy needs.
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