I was recently reading a Discovery Magazine article about a new refining process in which recylced animal matter, plastic, tires, etc might be refined into essentially oil, gas and water (with a mixture of heavy elements and carbon) when I recalled hearing stories many years ago about the fall of Nazi Germany.
I remember being told at some point that, in the last days of the war, the Nazi’s had managed to make some kind of synthetic fuel. The upshot was that the secret was never captured and was lost with the fall of the regime. While I can beleive that such a secret could be lost in the chatoic last days of WWII, I wonder if there is any proof of the existance of some kind of Nazi Synthetic fuel?