Ew. Non-US people drink alcohol made from petroleum?
Sooooo, any plant we eat is radioactive.
i knew it, that's why when i drink too much alchol, i feel sick for 1 week.
so what's non-american alcohol made from? is it synthetic, because last time i checked it's made from the same hops and wheat and potatoes that american alcohol is made from.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;51071285]Ew. Non-US people drink alcohol made from petroleum?[/QUOTE]
I don't see anything wrong with it.
Ethanol is ethanol.
[QUOTE=Pops;51071394]so what's non-american alcohol made from? is it synthetic, because last time i checked it's made from the same hops and wheat and potatoes that american alcohol is made from.[/QUOTE]
From the same thing, alcoholic beverages cannot be made as simply as adding ethanol to some juice. The video explains in a kind of roundabout way how fermented alcohol is necessarily radioactive, and the only way around that is to make it artificially.
oh yeah, tom scott? think you're such a know-it-all?
explain this:
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[QUOTE=geogzm;51071487]oh yeah, tom scott? think you're such a know-it-all?
explain this:
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Comrade, have you heard saying "fight fire with fire?" When you of drink radioactive vodka, radiation from inside fight radiation outside
This is the most sensationalist video title I've ever seen.
[QUOTE=Del91;51071656]This is the most sensationalist video title I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]
You must have not seen many video titles then dude...
I don't tend to wander into the depths of youtube
[QUOTE=Del91;51071656]This is the most sensationalist video title I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]
It's actually backed up.
Alcohol in the US is literally tested for radioactivity. If it's not radioactive enough, it was made from oil, and is illegal. Exactly what the video title says. American alcohol has to be radioactive.
But why does it have to be radioactive when as he stated, Oil and the Legal alchohol are chemically identical? I'm rather curious about this and why its illegal to be made from oil.
[QUOTE=Derpmonster;51072916]But why does it have to be radioactive when as he stated, Oil and the Legal alchohol are chemically identical? I'm rather curious about this and why its illegal to be made from oil.[/QUOTE]
Yes lets use more oil.
[QUOTE=Derpmonster;51072916]But why does it have to be radioactive when as he stated, Oil and the Legal alchohol are chemically identical? I'm rather curious about this and why its illegal to be made from oil.[/QUOTE]
It's probably less radioactive than a banana.
[QUOTE=Derpmonster;51072916]But why does it have to be radioactive when as he stated, Oil and the Legal alchohol are chemically identical? I'm rather curious about this and why its illegal to be made from oil.[/QUOTE]
Chemically identical.
Not in the nucleus, though.
Important distinction. Chemistry doesn't include nuclear physics, which is, well, physics.
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EDIT: I completely misunderstood your point, anyway...
It's US law. EU does not have such laws to my knowledge. I guess they just don't like the idea of drinking something made from oil.
[QUOTE=thegrb93;51071337]Sooooo, any plant we eat is radioactive.[/QUOTE]
you right now are radioactive, as well
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;51073026]you right now are radioactive, as well[/QUOTE]
[url=https://xkcd.com/radiation/]Here's a cool chart on what exactly is and isn't radioactive and to what degree[/url]
[QUOTE=Drury;51073009]It's US law. EU does not have such laws to my knowledge. I guess they just don't like the idea of drinking something made from oil.[/QUOTE]
I highly doubt it's because they "don't like the idea of drinking something made from oil". Why make alcohol from oil - which is way more expensive and much more in demand - when you can make it from plants that are heaps more abundant and cheaper and easier to work with?
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It's also probably illegal cause the US doesn't want companies guzzling up oil making alcohol when oil has more important shit to be used for.
[QUOTE=loopoo;51073085]I highly doubt it's because they "don't like the idea of drinking something made from oil". Why make alcohol from oil - which is way more expensive and much more in demand - when you can make it from plants that are heaps more abundant and cheaper and easier to work with?
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It's also probably illegal cause the US doesn't want companies guzzling up oil making alcohol when oil has more important shit to be used for.[/QUOTE]
i don't think companies would waste money making alcohol from the much more expensive oil when they could make it from cheap and abundant plant material
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even if it were legal i doubt there would be much alcohol made from oil because it is, as you said, far more expensive.
Pretty sure if huge multinational companies put their minds to it, they could figure out a cost-effective way of turning oil into alcohol much more efficiently than by using the usual method of using plants.
Oil might be more expensive than plants, but maybe from a chemical standpoint you can get a lot more ethanol from a small quantity of oil than you could from tonnes of plants? I dunno.
the actual original reasoning was indeed because the FDA believed the people of america had an expectation that food grade alcohol would be made from food products and not from petroleum based products.
[quote]"Ethyl alcohol is recognized in the U.S. Pharmacopeia, one of the official drug compendiums under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; consequently, ethyl alcohol intended for drug use must comply with the standards and tests laid down in the Pharmacopeia. Since the Pharmacopeia does not place any restrictions as to the method of manufacturing ethyl alcohol, synthetic alcohol which complies with the standards and tests set forth in the official monograph may legally be distributed for drug use."
"We consider that the situation with respect to foods is different. We believe that consumers generally expect the alcohol in food products to have been produced from fermented food substances, such as grains, fruit, etc., and that they do not expect their foods to contain 'alcohol' produced from petroleum gas."
"For this reason, we have advised inquirers that we do not regard this synthetic alcohol as a suitable food ingredient. This position, however, has not been the subject of any court review."[/quote]
[url="http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyGuidanceManual/ucm074550.htm"]source[/url]
I was starting to think it must have had to do with people finding loopholes in prohibition laws.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;51073026]you right now are radioactive, as well[/QUOTE]
Ever stepped in a water puddle?
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