A synthetic gasoline that Morath patented and Frieth sold to some big oil company.
His invention, he said, was a synthetic gasoline, that he had been keeping under cover.
When he had arrived, Lenley had impressed them both by the prospects of his synthetic gasoline.
South Africa has used a similar technology for 50 years, and now makes 200,000 barrels per day of synthetic gasoline and diesel.
In the 1930's and 40's, the United States made more than a million barrels of synthetic gasoline at several test plants.
Sodium hydroxide is also being used experimentally in a new technology to create synthetic gasoline.
The steps for producing high-octane synthetic gasoline are as follows:
If they could produce synthetic gasoline that good, why can't we?
The problem of making synthetic gasoline from coal had actually been solved by the company's scientists in the mid-Twenties.