[Stoves] RE Methanol stove fuel. was Re:[Gasification]Methanoltoxicity?

[Harry Stokes]

The antidote for imbibing of methanol is ethanol.  I doubt that meths at 5%
is much of a risk, beyond the risk of drinking crude ethanol.

Fuel ethanol itself must be denatured to assure that it is not drunk or
blended in drinkable ethanol.

Some fuel ethanols are of course denatured with kerosene or gasoline, so
choose your poison.

Harry





-----Original Message-----
From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Crispin
Pemberton-Pigott
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:04 PM
To: Stoves
Subject: [Stoves] RE Methanol stove fuel. was
Re:[Gasification]Methanoltoxicity?

Dear Friends

I have this reply to the methanol question from John Fitton at Sasol (who
knows a lot about these things).  He says:

"Bio-ethanol will have to be denatured - i.e. cannot drink it.  Also Meths
contains 5% methanol and 95% ethanol in SA - hence cannot be drunk!! Hence
there is bitrix in the product to prevent drinking."

So people are drinking 5% methanol after passing it through bread.  No
kidding!  The method I described with the bucket etc must deliver a
tolerable amount, one way or another because it is quite a popular pasttime.

Regards
Crispin
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