Heating/Cooling

Biomass Furnace
The Ecohouse is heated by an “A-Maize-ing Heat” biomass furnace, model number LDJ620-9 and LDJ620-10. The unit was purchased from an Iowa-based company, LDJ Manufacturing, Inc, for $3,650. The furnace runs on wood pellets, corn kernels, or other biomass pellet fuel. A full load can keep the house heated for two weeks. The biomass furnace is only used when it is needed with the help of the programmable thermostat. The biomass furnace is considered to be carbon neutral because the carbon that is emitted equals that which the corn or trees sequestered.

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