When rockets ran racecars, liquid oxygen appeared to be a promising alternative fuel
Posted 04.26.2007 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

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This rocket car shot along at 90 miles an hour on a different sort of alternative fuel: liquid oxygen. The driver ended up being killed in an explosion at a later trial, but its inventor insisted that the successful first run proved "the scientific possibility of driving vehicles this way."

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