[pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

VOC stands for Volatile Organic Compound, correct? Basically what  
vaporizes into the air. Since esbits are solid, there isn't anything  
vaporizing. But I could be wrong.

On Apr 3, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Donna Saufley wrote:

> Question:  does anyone know what are the VOCs g/l for esbits,  
> trioxane, and
> fuel canisters (like snow peak or msr) are?  The rule threshold is  
> max VOC
> 25 g/l.
>
> LR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l- 
> bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of CHUCK CHELIN
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 8:58 AM
> To: Mike Schaeffer
> Cc: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes; pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question
>
> Good morning, Mike,
>
> On the occasions that I eat hot food I use either a cat food can  
> stove or a
> pop can stove for its "multi-fuel" option.  With solid fuel I turn  
> the stove
> over and put the chunk on its bottom.  Doing so provides the  
> correct spacing
> of the fuel from the bottom of the pot, and it gets plenty of air.   
> I tried
> putting the solid fuel in the right-side-up stove and it didn't  
> work well.
>
> I use Esbet only for comparison testing.  Much superior, in my  
> opinion, is
> Army surplus trioxane fuel.  It seems to provide functionally the same
> heat/ounce, it's much expensive, and it leaves little or no residue  
> on the
> pot.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT - 1965
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Mike Schaeffer
> <chiefrat2006 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Esbit may be a good alternative to denatured alcohol.  Has anyone  
>> tried it
>> with
>> a cat food can stove?
>>
>> Mike Schaeffer
>> AT '78
>> PCT '11
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes  
>> <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:51:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question
>>
>> Esbit.
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2011, at 6:55 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>
>>> Survey type Question,
>>>
>>> If, in time HEET became unavailable... Would you be more likely to
>>> use a
>>> canister,  or would you try stoveless?
>>
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