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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (10302)	3/11/2007 7:46:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36918

C2, I think the claimant should have burned the ethanol instead of drinking most of it, then they might have been able to determine which part of their body was getting hot. <His injuries were made worse by the fact that he could not determine what part of his body was on fire. > I think the patented device was for vapour not liquid. Your litigant obviously chucked liquid ethanol onto a still-burning fire. If it was just "glowing", the ethanol would have extinguished some of it and wouldn't have caught fire. But the heat obviously boiled some ethanol and there was some flame which ignited the vapour, causing it all to catch fire in a big hurry. He must have been a total idiot to chuck ethanol on a fire and get burned by it. Did he go in the Darwin Awards? The can of ethanol wouldn't "explode". Ethanol burns very gently unless turned into a big ball of vapour somehow. He probably panicked and tipped it on himself and it caught fire. I bet he was drunk. Somebody isn't describing the situation correctly. I don't think there was an "explosion". He deserves to have fried. You can do a test. Get a cup of methylated spirits aka ethanol. Get a match. Light the match. Hold the lighted match by the surface of the ethanol aka meths. It will light and burn nice and gently. It will not "explode". You can get a tennis ball, soak it in meths, light it, throw it back and forth at night. It won't "explode". Your hands won't even get too hot if you have good technique. The plaintiff was a total moron to get $1 million of frying by chucking ethanol on a barbie. Maybe he chucked gasoline on it instead. A gallon of it. Mqurice