[pct-l] Fw: Stoves

[goforth@cio.net (Joanne Lennox)]

I have been discussing stoves with a friend of mine, who has arched off on
the The Great Stove Game.

He uses a juice size can stove and a pepsi sized can stove together to get
the greatest efficiency of burn of a quart of water ( he is interested not
in time but the least fuel consumed).

We started talking about mixing  - Wheeha.  A little sterno maybe to extend
the burn?.  A dab of lamp oil to up the efficiency?  Must be some other
exotics out there( forget the C4).

This note from him

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>  Dear Monty and Joanne,
>     I retested one of the stoves three times using a mixture of 50%
> alcohol and 50% lamp oil (nearly oderless).  I immediately got a 50%
> increase in heating value, which is what one would expect with lamp oil
> having a 100% higher heating value than alcohol.  However, the lamp oil
> produces a lot of soot (though little smoke) on the bottom of the pot
> and also on the stove.  So, I'm now attempting to produce an efficient
> lamp oil burning Pepsi can stove.  If successful, a pure lamp oil stove
> will be 100% more fuel efficient (heating value per weight of fuel) than
> alcohol.
>     I probably won't have my first attempt ready for test for a week or
> so.  Karl
>