45 Survival Uses for Alcohol.

CTD's The Shooter's Log ^ | 7/13/2013 | CT Suzanne

[Carriage Hill]

A slightly old article from CTD's blog (NOT mine!), but I'm sure FReepers can add a few uses to the author's 45. Heh.

[Carriage Hill]

Ping to alcohol use.

[Carriage Hill]

Does anyone know if this pub has to be excerpted? If not, I can C&P it all here.

[KosmicKitty]

Help Repopulate??

LOL????

[ClearCase_guy]

And, in a dire emergency, you can even drink it.

[Paladin2]

Purely for medicinal purposes only!

[dhs12345]

You can also make ethanol from wood.

[S.O.S121.500]

Stock/store ‘Everclear’ in this country. Many medicinal and cooking uses, and if you can drink it-You NEEDED a drink. Trades well and beats building that still right away.

[IronJack]

"Ethanol alcohol" is redundant. It's either "ethanol" or "ethyl alcohol."

A very lively substance chemically. It can make people more attractive, less attractive, funny, not funny, pathetic, empathetic, horny, and virtually celibate. And it can even make me believe I can dance.

Powerful stuff ...

[Lion Den Dan]

Alcohol is great for cleaning lenses. It floats the dirt off the lense so it can be blotted up with tissue or cloth, dries quickly and does not attack the glue or sealers.

[OneWingedShark]

Help Repopulate??

Ben Franklin said that alcohol is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.
I add that ugly women are proof God wants us to exercise self-control.

[Lion Den Dan]

You big dummy, read the article first:(

[OneWingedShark]

You can also make ethanol from wood.

That's Methanol — ingested in large quantities is metabolized to formic acid or formate salts, which is poisonous to the central nervous system, and may cause blindness, coma, and death.

So I wouldn't advocate drinking it.

[EEGator]

1. Drinking
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45. Drinking

[DemforBush]

I’d be interested to know the chemical process for #41 - drying wet clothes. Alcohol evaporates more easily than water - does it accelerate the evaporation process for H2O ?

On a (somewhat) related note.... I don’t know how correct this is, but I’ve read that one of the handier things you can keep around for emergencies is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Being 70% ethyl alcohol, it can be used for a firestarter, cleaner, etc. I’m told that if you mix salt into the stuff, the gels precipitate out and you liquid ethyl at your disposal for use as a fuel, etc.

[miss marmelstein]

Everybody needs a beer after a hard day of hunter/gathering.

[dhs12345]

No. I was thinking for sterilization. Plenty of wood out there and treating and sterilizing injuries and wounds is important.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ll drink to those...

[OneWingedShark]

Yes, methanol can be used for that too. It’s just not the same as ethanol, which can be important in a survival situation.

[Carriage Hill]

Plus, it’s faster than “beer goggles”.