Another great idea. Looks like my simple alcohol stove. I wonder how well Carbon fiber would work as the wick? Would a light weight fine wire screen work in place of the glass, that would bring down the weight and the worries of breaking the glass. I am going to have to experiment later on with this idea.
i have used steel wool as wicking, and it literally lasts forever. i dont know what an alternative to glass would be, because plastic melts and you cant see through metal.