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[Jim Mayer <JamesLMayer@netscape.net>]

Just a minor note... the tests that I (and most other folks I've seen) have
used involved boiling one pint (or two cups) of water.  Since it takes me
about two tablespoons to boil a pint, I wouldn't expect to be able to boil
three cups.

-- Jim


Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:32:36 -0800
From: "Tom Simon" <simontom@cgocable.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Alcohol Stoves

Most of the stove designs say that all you need is 2 tablespoons of alcohol
to boil 3 cups of water. Starting with cold water around 50 degrees F., as
is most water in the higher elevations I find that this much alcohol will
not bring 3 cups of water to a boil in any stove design. It will burn out
well before boiling. It seems like the fuel requirement for a 3 cup boiling
meal is more like around 4 tablespoons of alcohol. My testing is done at
near sea level. What's going to happen at 11,000 ft. when I'm up in the
Sierras next July?


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From:          Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@uwyo.edu>
Date:          Sat, 04 Dec 1999 23:27:20 -0700
Subject:       Re: [pct-l] www.topozone.com
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There is a marked difference between a 56K modem and a T1 line.  The T1,
as it should, downloads the whole page almost instantaneously.  The
squares fill in in odd patterns, but they "always" filled in.  I was
able to follow the whole Muir Trail over about 15 minutes, including
guessing wrong what direction the trail was going.  Using the site at
home is way too frustrating.  

Jeffrey Olson
Laramie, WY
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From:          Owen Kittredge <owenk@quiknet.com>
Date:          Sun, 05 Dec 1999 00:30:10 -0800
Subject:       Re: [pct-l] New Stove Designs
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"David B. Stockton" wrote:

>
> PS. Greg should be disqualified from all stove testing because of close ties
> with the oil
> industry and his unfair advantage to receive 55 gallon drums.

Sorry fokes Greg's connections with the oil industry will not help a barrel of
oil is 42 gallons ! Maybe a geologist from the environmental industry would
have a DOT drum he could use (recycled of course)

Owen K

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