State-Of-The-Art Corn-Burning Stove

State-Of-The-Art Corn-Burning Stove ENERGY Corn Burning Soves 26-6-30 "It looks good enough to go in any living room and burns more efficiently than any other corn or pellet-burning stove on the market," says Bob Walker, president of Bixby Energy Systems, Elk River, Minn. The Bixby stove features a revolutionary new combustion system that concentrates oxygen from the air and drives it into the combustion chamber. "It creates a hotter, more efficient burn that yields more energy from the fuel it burns than any corn-burning stove on the market," says Walker. "This stove will burn shelled corn, wood pellets, or special biomass pellets that we have developed which turns almost any organic material into fuel. Each million btu's produced by this stove costs less than $6." Walker is already famous as inventor of the "Sleep Number" air bed marketed by Select Comfort, Inc. That revolutionary product has been a phenomenal success, with more than one million beds sold to date. When Walker decided to go into the stove business, he wanted to build state-of-the-art equipment unlike anything else on the market. He has put an equal amount of work into creating new pelleted fuels made from ag products which can be used in addition to corn. He's made pellets from cornstalks, silage, sunflower hulls, soybean meal, beet pulp and many other residue products. The pelleted feeds are sold in 40-lb. bags or in bulk. The gold-trimmed stove comes in five colors. It weighs 300 lbs. and runs off 120-volt power. An extra large fuel hopper holds two bu. of shelled corn or pellets. It measures 33 in. high and about 30 in. in dia. You simply vent through an outside wall. Sells for $2,795. Inside, the Bixby stove is different from anything else on the market. It starts up easily with the push of a button, using electricity to start the fire. You can electronically adjust output between 8,000 and 50,000 btu's on a touch pad. It screens out cob residue and has a patented feed system that eliminates problems sometimes caused by augers. The stove has a special high-burn system which automatically clears the firepot periodically. The double-walled exhaust vent brings in fresh air from the outside. Bixby set up a new manufacturing plant this past summer and has already sold thousands of units. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bixby Energy Systems, Box 667, Elk River, Minn. 55330 (ph 763 428-1806; fax 763 428-7903; E-mail: sales@bixbyenergy.com; Website: www.bixbyenergy.com).

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