Are you just going to spout your personal opinion or are you going to actually provide some evidence (and by evidence I mean peer reviewed articles rather than "Joe Blog's" blog).

If you actually bothered to read either of the articles I linked to you would see that salt is a very important part of energy drinks. It increases the rate at which the body can adsorb carbohydrate and water and prevents water intoxication.

For example look at section 7.5 of the EU scientific committee report on energy drinks (http://tinyurl.com/66jq38). It is free so there are no excuses.

I hope that anyone who is thinking of making their own drink actually reads the literature. Section 7.6 of the above article is a good place to start.

P.S. salt has been harvested since long before the Romans; try 6000BC (http://tinyurl.com/6xvyp5) ...M