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Originally Posted by crosscountry
I wonder if it was the tires moving at 88mph or the machine moving relative to the ground?
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Relative to the ground.
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I think refining alcohol to work in the Delorean would have been easier than all of that.
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They tried alcohol, although I believe it was just 80 proof. Yes, they could easily have built a fractional distillation device that could have rapidly gotten it to more than 95% purity. Heck, I did that back in college with my nextdoor neighbor in less than 6 hours, and less than 24 hrs later, we had a brew that was more than 90% pure. Glass and plastic are best, but copper will do just fine.
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