Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels About Rediscovering Ancient Tech

On 5/14/24 10:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2024-05-09, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
 

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 I was already intrigued by the British TV mini-series _The Last Train_
(1999), where fifty years after the apocalypse our cryo-preserved
protagonists can just start up cars still sitting around in garages.
No flat batteries there.
 

Not only flat batteries, but flat gasoline. For those of us who have gasoline powered power tools (in my case, weed whacker, lawn mower, chainsaw), we have to add Stabil or some other gas preservative if the gas is going to sit in a can more than a month or so. Otherwise the gas goes "bad". If my chainsaw gas is more than a month or two old and has not been treated, it will not start the saw.
I have no idea how 10 year old gas would run in a car. Would water have somehow collected in the gas tank under the gasoline? Would the gas be so "flat" that it would not run?
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