jeepliberty's Journal: Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking

I submitted this story. Its still pending.

CNN has a story that the invasive ground cover vegetation Kudzu is being tested to curb binge alcohol drinking. In the health story here researchers at the Harvard affiliated McClean Hospital in Boston stated that volunteers who were given kudzu drank about 50% less beer in a 90 minute period than the group that was given a plecebo. The kudzu group got just as intoxicated.

I expect this story to die a fast death at the hands of the brewery/distillery industry. Just like the auto/petroleum industry squashed the engine that got 100 miles per gallon.

I Do Not Believe the 100mpg Claim

[the_mad_poster]

I find it extremely unlikely any practical gasoline motor has developed 100mpg. That would be pretty close to 100% efficiency on pump gas which would mean the motor would have to lose pretty much nothing useful in the exhaust and would have to produce almost no heat at all from combustion, plus nearly 100% of the power resulting from the combustion would have to make it to the wheels.