Stove Fuel

[CharlesHarris]

My backup 20Kw genset runs off propane, stored in an above ground 1000 gallon tank of propane, and burns 1.85 gallon/hour at 50% duty cycle, which is adequate to flip the whole house, barn and workshop and bugger on with no adjustments in lifestyle for a fortnight. If I reduced consumption to absolute minimums, running only emergency essential circuits, I could not quite double that endurance.

For backup cookstove room heat and lighting I like pressurized kerosene Petromax lanterns and a single burner kerosene stove from India, which run on K1, JetA, JP8, etc.