• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    5 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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      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?