• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    That the diesel engine wasn’t originally ran on diesel fuel. (In college I was led to believe that it was hemp oil). It was actually peanut oil and later they tried hemp oil.

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      7 days ago

      I’m not trying to be a smartass, but wouldn’t the name “diesel fuel” be assigned after a certain substance was found to be the optimal fuel for a diesel engine?

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          2 days ago

          I know it’s a week later but this has been weighing on my mind.

          It has to be such right? I wouldn’t develop Krudler Fuel, with the hopes that in a couple years I will have completed development on the new Krudler Engine.

          That scenario would make no sense and illustrates that the naming of the fuel must have come later.