RE: Gel Fuel

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

>3% alcohol solution - it's called beer.

In the US -- here it is 6.5%

Actually -- "beer" is the perfect food for humans -- ask the ancient
Egyptians!

It fueled them for many of thousands of years -- at 3% and "less" alcohol.

But not mass produced -- chemically "encouraged" beer -- fresh -- natural
brewed -- beer!

It was also the perfect food for many Europeans -- 

Which then brings us to wine.

Consumed mostly in ancient times -- diluted to 3% or less -- and was drank
as water -- that is to keep fluid levels in the proper range.

when "thirsty" -- drink "diluted" wine -- not water.

When a special occasion comes along -- they drank the wine "pure" and
became inebriated as a result.

Again -- natural wines --

A great natural wine can be made from simply boiling chopped up sugar cane
plant and then letting the liquor so produced ferment.

Called by the ancients around here (Maya) "Balche" --

It self ferments when cooled -- and is a very rich food supplement --
though again -- should be diluted to 3% or less.

So yes -- ethanol is rather the perfect "fuel" -- for engine and human!

I raise pigs and chickens/eggs for the house table here -- the expended
mash will be used for their feed.

Waste not -- want not -- and all of that.

Peter / Belize

At 09:12 AM 9/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>
>	> -----Original Message-----
>	> From: Peter Singfield [mailto:snkm@btl.net]
>	> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:58 PM
>	> Subject: Re: Gel Fuel
>	>
>	>
>	>
>	> By the way folks -- if memory serves me right -- 3% alcohol solution
>	> (water) is one of the perfect fuels for the human body. And was applied
>	> intravenously in this manner -- along with lipids -- protein -- etc -- to
>	> sustain life in the seriously invalid.
>	>
>
>3% alcohol solution - it's called beer.  My students certainly subscribe to
>the belief that it is the perfect fuel and that little else is needed to
>sustain life. I'm not sure that they use it intravenously, but I'm sure
>they'd try it if I suggest.
>
>
> - Bryan Willson
>
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