[at-l] Freezing??

At 12:29 PM 12/4/00 -0500, WHHAWKINS@aol.com wrote:
>The best way to treat water when it is below freezing is to boil it. Bring
to 
>a boil and boil for one minute. NO chemical treatment needed.  Before going 
>to sleep fill your cooking pan with water, then in the morning put it on the 
>stove and bring to a boil.

Wait a minute.   There's a little inconsistency here.  If we're talking
freezing weather in the 20's or below, then we don't want to fill pots with
wa-wa overnight or it'll be solid in the morning.  And bringing ice to a
boil was just not fun, I seem to recall.  Quick, one of you chemistry
types, what is the heat input required in kcalories to get past the phase
change from solid to liquid versus just warming up hypothetical liquid
water from 20 deg to 212 deg?  Probably double, I'd guess.

Even if not freezing, why fill a pot and leave it outside?  It'll just get
knocked over by one damn thing or another in the night.

Why not just put an iodine pill in a liter or two of h20 in your bag with
you and give it 8 hours to work?

Sorry to be so contrary this evening...
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