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The History of Glass Making and Blowing - Part 3

The future possibilities of being able to distill your own.There are no hard times --if you are prepared for hard times.City folk in the 1940's when they went into the country were surprised to find the farmers didn't know there was a depression because they made their own food and alcohol. Why is alcohol important like sugar, gold, salt, tobacco, and canned food?There are many needs and uses for it. This article will hopefully educate you. Our goal here is wanting people to have open discussions about preparing for the future. We all benefit in sharing information.1. Alcohol as cooking gas. There are alcohol stoves around you can buy or make yourself. They look like real stoves and can carry heavy large pots on top of them. They consist of a stand and burner. You can place any kind of alcohol inside. After prepping, the flame usually burns ?? hour at high. I myself have used an alcohol stove everyday for a month, to cook and reheat my food, safely in my kitchen, as an experiment. This can cost you anywhere from 5 to 10 cents to produce the alcohol.2. Alcohol as fuel. Motorcycles made before electronic ignition, can still run on alcohol. The T Model Ford was run on alcohol.These days you can get an E85 converter, so your car can run on ethanol fuel. Anybody can install this if you have some knowledge in mechanics. It will take no less than an hour to convert your car. Or you can go to your auto repair shop.Ethanol fuel is the same thing as drinking alcohol. Its also called ethyl or grain. There are different proofs, kinds and qualities. It can be made in stills as small as coffee makers to fit on your countertop.There is also "Methanol" alcohol, otherwise known as wood alcohol, but we are not talking about that kind here because those products give you headaches. The old story about the old moonshiners going blind was because of drinking this.3. Alcohol as bartering. Its considered liquid currency. In Kosovo after the war, there the only thing that was used as money was homemade vodka distilled out of old fashioned pot stills, made out of potatoes. This paid for labor and the rebuilding of their city. Their paper money was worth nothing.Alcohol, most importantly, can be used for bartering for food products. The great thing about ethanol is the shelf life lasts forever, as long as it is properly sealed. One can bury this as one would hide gold.4. Alcohol for medical purposes. Medical alcohol or Isopropyl, for use in sterilizing wounds. This will be valuable as medical supplies may be hard to come by. This is used for surgical operations, sterilizing appliances and tools, as well for bacteria and germs. This is made from 40 lbs of sugar and 2 bags of yeast. After this is fermented after 3-4 days the ABV ( how much alcohol is in by volume ) will be around 16%. If you have 15 gallons of mash it will produce 2 gallons of medical alcohol of around 90% alcohol proof. This can take between 1- 6 hours of distilling depending on size of still5. Medicinal Alcohol. Extracting the active compounds out of herbs that heal you, creating tinctures.

Fire Gods: an Animated History of Glass


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history of glass
history of glass
history of glass