I'd say the Chinese were the "originators"...fireworks. :)
(Uhhhh...how'd we get on rockets?)
- Bernd
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From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Stlaurent
Mr Steven
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:21 PM
To: 'dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net'
Subject: RE: DML: RE: Oil sources OT (sort of)
After watching the History Channel, the pioneer of rocketry into space
was an American not German before WWII.
I guess we Americans are short sighted with historical facts and rather
let the mass media dictate our history for us.
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-----Original Message-----
From: jon@dakota-truck.net [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:53 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Oil sources OT (sort of)
"Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net> wrote:
: But something to think about:
: Germany made Synthetic Gasoline during WWII when supply lines were
: "allegedly" cut (and the fuel was working too)...why can the US do
that?
: Heck, we've got the resources and are already using synthetic oils in
: just about everything on our vehicles...what's the problem?
The US has done that... Actually, the US was producing synthetic oil
almost 100 years before the Nazis even came to be, and the basic process
of synthesizing oil started in England during the late 1700s.
In fact, prior to Edwin Drake drilling the first oil well in PA in 1859,
the entire US oil supply was synthetic. There are a couple of common
ways to synthesize oil, both of which involve extracting it from coal.
At the time that Nazi Germany was producing synthetic gasoline, it
was 4 to 5 times more expensive to produce as compared to refining from
drilled oil. The much cheaper cost of drilled oil pretty much
eliminated the synthesis of oil on any sort of large scale until the
Nazis were basically forced to re-institute the practice due to the
dwindling supply lines. (They did have oil wells also but not enough to
satisfy demand.) With today's more advanced technology, it might be
much cheaper now. Here's an interesting article I stumbled across which
claims that oil can essentially be extracted from coal for "free" as a
by-product:
http://www.rexresearch.com/karrick/karric~1.htm
I don't have the time or knowledge to be able to say wether all of
the details in the above article are true or not so I will just pass on
the link without comment.
---Jon-
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