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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default Propane vs Alcohol

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:10:53 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Also, alcohol doesn't have the BTU's of propane.


Propane weighs 4 lb/gal alcohol 5,8lb/gal. BTU/lb are something like
18k for propane v. 12 k for alcohol. 9,5k for methanol. My car burns
that, but I don't have an alcohol stove. I do have a one burner primus
stove that burns kerosene.

Casady