Dear Jim: I am tired of hauling wood indoors for my fireplace. I saw pellet and corn stoves at my home center store and they sell the pellets there. Are they convenient to use and do they produce much ...

Sean McMahon was tired of the high cost of propane to heat his 3,600-square-foot Fremont home. So, last fall, he and his wife, Sue, converted a conventional fireplace with a wood-burning insert. “It’s ...

ST. PAUL — The prospect of high heating bills this winter is prompting many Minnesotans to turn to wood and corn stoves to heat their homes. At the Minnesota State Fair, Kris Borgeson stays busy at a ...

Worries about the price of oil and natural gas and the environmental impact of coal have led some colleges to seek alternative fuels for their steam plants—fuels like wood pellets or corn leaves and ...

OMAHA - A Nebraska company has come up with a way to make pellets that burn like coal from all the leftover parts of a corn plant. Next Step Biofuels' Russ Zeeck says these corn pellets could be a new ...

PLAINVIEW — As the temperatures drop, a Plainview farm hopes the market for its new home-grown renewable energy product line will heat up. The Kruger family farm grows corn, but it is not ethanol that ...