RE: (TFT) Oil lantern consumption

["rsmith" <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

Hello rgtraynor,
	A pint is close enough to a 0.5 liters
in my books.  For how many hours would you
say that one liter of would burn in a lantern?

	By the way, to whom is the party to
which I am speaking?

	;)

	Rick


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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:31 AM
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Subject: (TFT) Oil lantern consumption


<<Going by real-world lanterns, the 1 liter per hour oil consumption of
'book' lanterns is really high. It ought to be more like 1 liter per day.>>

It's more like one PINT per WEEK.

My family's had a permanent site in a summer campground for over forty
years,
where until relatively recently there was no electricity to the campsites.
Lighting for all those summer nights involved propane or glass-chimneyed oil
lanterns.  The oil lanterns had a capacity of about a half-pint of kerosene,
and burning a lantern well into the night hours (something less prevalent in
medieval farming communities) would require a refill a shade less often than
every two days.
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