Lynne Kiesling
Check out this very interesting fact from this recent FuturePundit post on using corn as a fuel:
And Dennis Buffington, a professor of engineering at Penn State University, provided these figures in a recent Wall Street Journal story about corn stoves: For 1 million BTUs of heat, it takes $16.47 in natural gas, $33.80 in propane and a mere $8.75 for corn.
Randall then goes on to discuss other aspects of using corn for fuel, including reduced emissions, and how one utility in Iowa is using corn to meet its peak demand instead of spending the money to do environmental upgrades on one of its units. Very interesting.