I'll be damned if I can find out what the "syn gas power constant" is.

[captain queeg]

2. You say DME is a wonder fuel. How so?

Most all this discussion was over my head but it did raise a couple thoughts. I know the Nazis used coal to produce gasoline (more or less) but I’d read the gasoline produced this way was inferior and reduced its efficiency enough to hurt the performance of their fighter planes. So what was that net effect? Poorer octane?

Anyways I’m no chemist for sure. I also noticed they talked about hydro cracking, something I don’t understand but I worked one summer at an oil refinery and one of our jobs was replacing the refractory in a cracking vessel. I can’t remember if it was for hydro-cracking or cat-cracking. I’d heard both of those terms but I think they were different processes. At any rate it was a nasty job. A half dozen of us chipping off the old refractory inside a steel vessel with air chisels. I’m sure I damaged my hearing.