Eliminate Your Home Heating Bills For Less Than $200

Heating Alternatives

It is often said that interesting times call for interesting measures, and in today's energy conscious world, we definitely need solutions of this sort.  There are many different options open to you when you want to reduce your carbon footprint and one of the first things that you need to look at is the heat that you use to heat your home in the winter.  In the vast majority of cases, the energy that you use to heat your home comes from the use of fossil fuels. As fossil fuels are specifically a non-renewable energy source, it seems that we might be in trouble, until we figure out what our options are going to be.

Heating Your Home With Grass Clippings?

The truth is that the source for the solution to your problems might be as little as twenty feet away.  Your lawn, with the amount of clippings and leaves that you pull from it, might actually be enough to heat your home over the entire winter.  In the first place, consider the process of composting.  When you apply oxygen and warmth to decaying plant matter, it will produce heat. The more confined it is and the more material that it has to work with, the more heat it will produce.  When you are looking at this innovative and extremely energy conservative way to heat your home, you'll find that while it uses the same principle as composting, the process is much more refined.

Better Than Biogas

Essentially, when you are looking at this process to heat your home, the most crude version of this plan involves getting a simple standard Poly tarp.  Organic material, like leaves and grass clippings, will be piled up in the tarp and the edges of the tarp will be lifted up and tied together.  Everything is sealed inside and then more straw and leaves are piled around the bag to insulate it.  When you think about the fact that even a system like this can convert 1500 pounds of organic matter into 13 million BTUs of chemical energy, you'll find that it is actually large enough to heat an American home for several weeks or even a month. 

At regular intervals, the bag will need to be opened up in order to put more air and oxygen into the process.  It will be simplicity itself to add two large-diameter pipes into the pile to make sure that fresh air gets into the bag.  When you want to mix it up to get the air distributed, simply moving the bag can be effective.

When you are looking at making this work for yourself, you'll find that you can start with eight sheets of one inch blue foam building insulation and this will serve as your bottom layer of insulation.  Then get a sixteen or twenty foot plastic tarp, and put it on top of the insulation.  On top of this, put on about forty bags of cut lawn grass and forty bags of leave, or even fifteen to twenty five bales of straw or hay.  If you use straw or hay, you'll need some green compost to get things going.  Then bring up the tarp around the filling to make a bag.  Before you tie it off, put a four inch PVC pipe that stretches to the top layer to bring in oxygen, and put in a longer pipe that will get to the bottom and bring out carbon dioxide.

This is essentially all you need  to heat your home for less than 200 dollars all winter!

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