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

[Ed Woolsey]

Employee at one of Iowa's ethanol plants just fired for trying to drink
up all the profits. This will likely be an ongoing issue...even in
ethanol stoves.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202798,00.html
Sorry to use Fox quote....might still be somewhat accurate.

Ed 
Iowa





-----Original Message-----
From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Harry Stokes
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:20 PM
To: 'Crispin Pemberton-Pigott'; 'Stoves'
Subject: Re: [Stoves] RE Methanol stove fuel.
wasRe:[Gasification]Methanoltoxicity?

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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