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What do we think about using a portable heater such as the HeatMate 5200

Chris,
You have just elevated yourself in my view. What a wonderful attention  
getter. I bet they paid attention the remainder of the semester. That is truly  
outstanding

Rummy

In a message dated 11/20/2010 1:05:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
napoli68 at charter.net writes:

Rummy  said " Burning alcohol is a sin"

But it can also be entertaining and  educational.  One of my demo 
experiments
is to take a 5 gallon water  cooler jug and put in about a teaspoon (8ml) of
methyl alcohol in the jug  and shake it up.  The alcohol vaporizes and the
jug looks empty.   I do this before the kids come in and place a Styrofoam
cup upside down on  the top.  I announce my new burp energy converter
invention and get a  kid to come up and burp in the jug.  I claim that burps
have huge  energy content.  The skeptics want me to prove it. When I ask how
I  can do it, the solution to most any question in 8th grade science is to
set  it on fire.  I make a small hole in the inverted cup and drop a  match
in; the kids expect nothing will happen.  Wrong!  It goes  off with a huge
roar, a 3 foot tongue of blue flame blasts out, and if I  have the ratio
right, I usually knock out a ceiling tile.  Oh yeah,  the kids who are 
always
leaning back on two legs of their chairs, they fall  over. Priceless. 

Mad Scientist & sailor
Chris  G

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heater in the cabin