BLUMOONCCC at aol.com said:
Does anyone have information, or could lead me to information, about using
corn as insulation? My college-aged daughter has to write a paper on this
and is not having much luck. Any help is appreciated.
Freddie replied:
Perhaps, you mean by insulation, packaging peanuts which are
sometimes made out of corn starch. In that case, you may need
to refine your reference search. I am not aware of using those type
of starch products for heating/cooling insulation, but I really
wouldn't know.
On a humorous note, one of the historical buildings at the Kansas
state history museum in Topeka, Kansas has whole ears of corn in
the wall for heating/cooling insulation. Supposedly that was not an
uncommon practice dury the previous century.
Freddie
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