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    11 months ago

    Anyone living in 90’s in postsocialist countries would not be surprised with how much alcoholic beverages overlaps with petroleum products.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah i know. In rocketry V-2 for example was running on ethanol/water mix with liquid oxygen as oxidiser. And experiments with ethanol based fuel for other kind of engines too never stopped entirely, though the results are rather underwhelming, at least for mass usage.

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          11 months ago

          Modern gasoline is roughly 10-15% ethanol in order to prevent thermal damage to engine parts and to support performance in cold climates.

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        I mean people were really making booze and drugs of absolutely everything possible, including famously, rocket fuel.