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Current energy options cannot meet future demand and are causing long term damage to the planet, pellets are an alternative option. Pellets for fuel purposes can be made from a large selection of resources. Wood is such a resource; wood residue is available as a waste resource from sawmills. Sawmill waste is usually sent to be made into premium wood pellets as it contains very little or no bark and is predominately pine, spruce or oak residue which produces very little ash during combustion. Premium wood pellets also contain very little moisture, which also enables a higher combustion temperature and more complete combustion. Many other biomass resources can be processed into pellets to be used as fuel. These include purpose grown energy crops such as miscanthus, switchgrass and hemp. Other resources such as grasses and straws can also be produced into pellets. Burning other biomass pellets as apposed to wood does however create issues. Ash, clinkers and corrosion are some of the obsticales in burning some biomass pellets.

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Pellet stoves are ideal for small heating options to provide either your full or supplementary heating requirements. Wood pellet stoves come in various different shapes and sizes, with various heat outputs. The stove can also serve as an attractive centerpiece for the room. Some pellet stoves come with an additional back boiler to connect up to your central heating system. It is possible to use other fuel pellets in pellet stoves, however the burn pot design and several other features are crucial to whether the stove can burn the pellets efficiently and without damaging the stove.

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Pellet boilers are required to heat a larger area, and they also need a larger space for the boiler and fuel. Some people choose to have a small pellet stove in the living room and then use a pellet boiler to heat the rest of the property. Running a pellet boiler is a lot less work than running a log boiler for example. Pellet stores can hold various weights of pellets depending on their size from holding a day or so of pellets to holding up to a years supply. Depending on the type of fuel used in the pellet boiler the amount of manual maintenance will change, for example the ash content. Grass pellets can contain over 5 percentage ash which is far higher than wood pellets.

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