What are your thoughts on coffee?

LOL,cracks me up.Burning a fuel that has already had most of the chemicals removed.But,not very far from me, we had a "grass " pellet plant,for quite some years.Never even talked to someone that actually burned them,or even heard of someone that did burn them.The plant "mysteriously" had a massive fire, that ruined the plant,the same year the federal grants ran out.

 

If the price is right I would buy them.

 

A friend, who has contacts in the restaurant industry, gave me a few buckets of coffee beans.
I recently started mixing some coffee beans in with the wood pellets. The mix is only about
1% to 3% coffee beans. I have noticed that the pellet stove is consuming fewer pounds of the
mix, but producing a bit more ash, due to the coffee beans. I understand that coffee beans
have about 10,000 BTU per pound.

 

IDK, Unless the coffee beans were otherwise unusable for their intended purpose seems like a waste of good coffee to me. But what do I know, I have a wood stove

 

Any web link to it? Since we tried making the coffee pellets "back in the day", I'm curious how they've progressed.

 

I never had the time to try it.

 

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Supply would be an issue. I also avoid using fast growing species. The ash content is too high for residential pellets.

 

Huh... I'd be good with it being in the mix as long as it doesn't negatively effect BTU output or ash buildup.

I also grew up near a small coffee company that made it big enough to be bought out by Green Mountain IIRC (subsequently absorbed and closed down). Odd I thought it smelled wonderful, but as mentioned nothing like grinding or brewing.

With a foreshadowing of things to come, we bought pellets in June for $20 ton increase. I have also noticed a number of driveways here in town with a pallet or two of pellets in them where there were none to ever be seen before. Makes me think many folks are new pellet stove owners now which won't help prices or supply...

 

1 Btu = 252.0 calories

 

I have fond memory of a grade school science class homework experiment of burning a single peanut and timing how long it lasted.
Made a "test stand" from a paperclip, put it in the fireplace and timed it along with other dry beans, corn. peas etc... on hand.
Then brought the results to class and did the math to determine calories, BTU output. and discuss the whys of it.

Probably some cheater rich kid with a Brazil nut won but I know it wasn't me. I was fun enough that I remember it though!

 

We've tried some of these pellets......seem pretty good (fair warning: I sell these). The latest analyses we have is 11170 btu/lb, .19% ash......so the numbers actually look pretty good, but they are pretty limited, and the price is somewhat high ($489/ton). FWIW, they also dont swell as quickly with water as pellets do.

 

ALSO, since they run hot, you might want to be careful with those other, lesser quality stoves.......we are burning them in a P43, so far, so good.

 

oh, come on! Noone is rising to bite at my "lesser quality stoves" comment?! Have you finally conceeded the issue?