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Rocket fuel is very often highly refined kerosene. You could use it to run a jet engine or a diesel truck with small modifications. * I will be entering this r
by 0_____0 3y ago
Rocket fuel is very often highly refined kerosene. You could use it to run a jet engine or a diesel truck with small modifications.
* I will be entering this reply into "most HN comment" contest running at the end of this year
- marginalia_nu 3y agoThis is ignoring the whole tanker full of liquid oxygen part of the equation.
- 0_____0 3y agoI mean you can plumb that into your diesel truck if you really wanted to. Ever see a RAM Fifteenhunnerd run in vacuum?
- kortex 3y agoMaybe a better analogy is nitromethane. If you put it in your honda civic, you will blow up your engine. You put it in a top-fuel dragster which cranks out thousands of hp and needs an engine rebuild after each race.
- 0_____0 3y agoBetter, but with EFI I bet you could get it working with what otherwise looks like an extremely lean tune
- gcanyon 3y agoDepending on who you ask, RP-1 costs between 20 and 80 times what diesel goes for. Others have tortured this analogy enough, but you certainly don't want to fuel your non-rocket startup with funding that costs far too much, which is conceptually adjacent to the point of the original article.