My experience with ethanol gel stoves has not been encouraging. Most stove designs pay no attention to proper mixing of fuel and air, but rely on pure diffusion. As a result, combustion is poor, there is an aldehyde stink, and pots are blackened.
However, some of my friends have got the hots for this as a possible solution. Ahah! They say - bioethanol, then stoves, and communities can cook cleanly and safely. I have several reports of quite large scale experiments in the past (one involved 4000 households), but I think the experimental design was weak in every case. Does anyone in this group have any reports of sustainable success, or alternatively failure and the reasons therefore? Happy cooking all round, Philip Lloyd Energy Institute Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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