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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Flamethrowers are organic, right?

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There exist inorganic fuels, but I don't think any portable flamethrower is capable of using them.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Couldn't you... use basically moonshine?

Like, set up a distillery, get your grain mash and sugar... now you have very high proof alcohol.

Now, you could just strap basically a pilot light to ... a more seriously designed super soaker... and you'd have to add some kind of ... jellying, gelling? agent to the moonshine to get it to act more like a flame thrower than a squirt gun...

This would not be a 100% organicly sourced entire flamethrower, but you could at least make the fuel mostly, if not fully, from organic, non petroleum products.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Petroleum is organic already. No need to make alcohol.

(Well, to a very high extent. It also has inorganic impurities.)

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Ah, I was using the uh... food industry sense of the term (which is admittedly a fuzzy definition), not the chemistry definition.

Yay for domain dependent meanings!

[–] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They actually are.

Just farm things.