If you can't find meths on tap, then just try to buy the largest bottle of it that's available and decant it into a smaller bottle when you need to use it. Interestingly, whilst meths is "greener" than small cans of gas, it is still derived from fossil fuels. Ethanol ( alcohol) is produced on an industrial scale by the hydration of ethene, which is a gas produced from crude oil. Until meths is available from bioethanol (and that has issues as well) there is no real eco-friendly fuel to use when camping.
Rosswym: where do you get your ethanol from? I thought you had to sign for it & the customs boys came to check the use register? iof not, very interesting & worth investigatinng!
"In Australia, ethanol is made from waste products as sugar cane, the waste from starch production, and red sorghum, so that there is no conflict with food production."
Context is everything Here, we are clearly talking about portable stoves for camping and hiking.
Yes, you're quite right; I was thinking of too big a picture, and I've made exactly the same context point as you have in past discussions... Not sure what came over me on Friday; my apologies.
UK meths is subject to a fairly stringent spec on what can be included; I've posted a link in another thread somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment...
Aha! thank goodness for Google and Firefox retaining browsing history... one click led to Wki, which led to the Regulations.
Interesting - says it's ok to put water in which I'd suspected.
When making denatured alcohol in accordance with a formulation specified in paragraph 1, 2 or 3, water may be mixed with the alcohol before denaturing or with the denatured alcohol but the quantity of water added must not reduce the proportion or quantity of denaturing substances or dyes in the resulting mixture below the proportions or quantities specified in the formulation; and or the purpose of ascertaining the proportion or quantity of denaturing substances or dyes in any uch mixture the water shall be treated as if it were alcohol.
Here, we are clearly talking about portable stoves for camping and hiking.
