Subject: Heat: Oil or Propane?

From: [email-masked] (Lloyd Schultz)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 03:39:05 GMT

ST>        Time for a new furnace.  Currently I have a 130K(+) btu oil furnace
ST>        which was adequate to heat the house.  The property owner has been
ST>        told that fuel oil is better because "it yields more heat than
ST>        the same dollar amount of propane."  I'm at a loss because I've
ST>        seen no such metrics.
It seems that the market would dictate prices and I am not sure ifthe
two fuel types have parallel pricing.  A furnace
of a given btu rating and a specific efficiency rating is going to pump
out the same amount of heat no matter what kind of fuel it uses. (?)

We heat our old farm house with a pulse furnace fueled with propane.
The price over the past six years has ranged from 49-cents to
89-cents/gallon.   It seems that oil has been consistantly higher.

Thinking of supplementing with a corn burner next year.  They too are so
efficient that they require no chimney, just something similar to a
dryer vent.

Lloyd
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From: [email-masked] (John Stafford)
Date: 14 Jul 93 10:18:12 -0600

> efficient that they require no chimney, just something similar to a

	My experience with the corn burners is that they must be large
	to be effective in a home. The models I've seen are simply
	inadequate for general home heating.  Yes, the single virtue
	seems to be the 'vent' rather than chimney.

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John Stafford   Minnesota State University @ Winona
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From: [email-masked] (David A. Sticha)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 01:00:08 GMT

>[email-masked] (Lloyd Schultz) writes:

The reference to high efficiency corn burners has piqued my interest. I thought
corn burners were just another variation of the pellet stove, nowhere near the
efficiency of modern furnaces. So how can you get away with a dryer vent? If
you have more info on these, such as manufacturer's name and city, dealers,
specs, etc. I would be most interested.

Dave Sticha
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