Heat your home with grass clippings!

[Lahen]

Wow! Really good idea. I am wondering to build it. Thanks for sharing, I think it is very helpful for all of us.

 

[carpenter383]

Wow! Really good idea. I am wondering to build it. Thanks for sharing, I think it is very helpful for all of us.

Good luck and welcome to TBN!!!

 

[Dr_Zinj]

... Just monitor the temps in the pile so it doesn't start on fire! We used to live near a mushroom farm which made their own compost and occasionally the fire department had to show up to water douse the piles on fire. ...

If your compost heap catches on fire, you obviously need more moisture in it anyway. ;-)

And burning compost really screws up the decomposition cycle.

 

[Egon]

You gotta sell this to all the Dairy farmers that feed silage!

Also should vent the exhaust into a device that burns vaporous gas.

You also gota consider a runaway burning down the house. Lotsa barns have experienced this phenomenon .

 

[mjarrels]

Large new local hospital uses the county landfill about four miles away to heat the hospital.

mark

 

[oosik]

There may be additional concerns. Any type of stove used for heat is not 100% air tight. You burn wood - your house has the pleasant smell of the wood. You burn compost - your house smells like compost. It would be a situation where I would have the stove in an outbuilding, heat water and pipe the water into the house. I had a pellet stove(Wollenko Pelletmaster) that would burn just about anything - wood pellets, wheat, dried peas, paper pellets, dried corn and coal. I tried coal - BIG mistake. It took weeks to get the smell of coal out of the house.