[pct-l] Alcohol fuels toxic?

[Ron Cordell]

By products of burning alcohol are carbon dioxide and water. However, it is
possible that there are impurities in the alcohol, especially if they were
put there to prevent ingestion. Those impurities may cause issues...


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Dan Jacobs <youroldpaldan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Jim Marco <jdm27 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Ha, ha...yup very true. Even methanol is not super toxic, you get small
> amounts of it in your diet all the time, more so if you are a vegetarian.
> Most fruits and vegetables have some trace of it. Isopropyl alcohol is,
> perhaps, the worst of common alcohols. As a fuel it produces all sorts of
> sooty byproducts that are not too good to be breathing. With methane
> (natural gas) and other fuels that require special jets, there is no
> problem with these. WG is also fairly safe. In an enclosed area, such as a
> tent, most stoves will produce small percentages of carbon monoxide, also.
> This is bad because your blood has an affinity for it and permanently bonds
> with it. Even these small percentages can be bad. There is a lot more to
> all this stuff. Some of the byproducts from methanol are from the break
> down in the liver. But your body prefers to use ethanol over methanol.
> Getting good and drunk will let you excrete most of the methanol, directly,
> before metabolizing it, if you happen to
>   drink a couple swallows. Kind'a weird....
> >         My thoughts only . . .
> >                 jdm
>
> "Doctor, I get a headache and I feel like crap when I (insert something
> here)."
> "Don't (Insert the something from above here too)."
>
> Dan Jacobs
> Washougal
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