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      There exist inorganic fuels, but I don’t think any portable flamethrower is capable of using them.

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        Couldn’t you… use basically moonshine?

        Like, set up a distillery, get your grain mash and sugar… now you have very high proof alcohol.

        Now, you could just strap basically a pilot light to … a more seriously designed super soaker… and you’d have to add some kind of … jellying, gelling? agent to the moonshine to get it to act more like a flame thrower than a squirt gun…

        This would not be a 100% organicly sourced entire flamethrower, but you could at least make the fuel mostly, if not fully, from organic, non petroleum products.

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          Petroleum is organic already. No need to make alcohol.

          (Well, to a very high extent. It also has inorganic impurities.)

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            Ah, I was using the uh… food industry sense of the term (which is admittedly a fuzzy definition), not the chemistry definition.

            Yay for domain dependent meanings!