Re: SNOW JOB [power plants]

Wouldn't being able to burn a wider range of fuels greatly simplify your
supply 
chain, however?  You could burn whatever gunk they can schlep out to you
this 
week, and also take advantage of captured supplies when possible.

I think the M1 will run on gasoline, diesel, or even jet fuel for
example.

--
Ray

Edward Lipsett wrote:

> Dean McLaughlin wrote an excellent, though oft overlooked, novelette
> called "Hawk Among Sparrows." A state-of-the-art supersonic fighter
> suddenly flips back to WW1 and the pilot decides to take on the
Kaiser's
> air force. 
> 
> problem 1: Fuel. Kerosene of the time was so dirty it would choke his
> engire, so it had to be all strained dozens of times through
cheeseloth. 
> problem 2: His missiles were either heat-seeking or radar lock, and
> neight worked on planes made our of paper and cloth with extremely
cool
> engine temperature. 
> problem 3: The pilot finally go so pissed he decided to fly through
the
> enemy squadron at mach 2 and blow them apart with the sonic boom. It
> worked, but something got sucked into his intake, and his plane had
the
> worse part of the meeting.
> 
> So trying to use a lower-tech "equivalent" in a higher-tech machine
may
> have a number of unexpected and unpleasant side effects. I suppose you
> could make a high-tech engine to handle the low-tech fuels as well,
but
> almost certainly this would mean lower efficiency even with the right
> fuels. And in the military, higher efficiency is usually the target. 
> 
> Ray Forsythe wrote:
> 
>>Bell, Brian K (Contractor) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Another reason for lower tech, local, manufacture.
>>>
>>>Ubertech lands for a quick consolidation and mop of a minor
incursion, but
>>>gets sucked into a guerrilla war. 3 weeks into the campaign, they
have
>>>exhausted their fuel cells (HMT & Fusion) and look to the locals to
supply
>>>more. The locals explain that everything they have runs off of
biodiesel,
>>>and they do not have the correct chemicals to recharge the fuel
cells.
>>>
>>>-----
>>>Brian Bell
>>>-----
>>>
>>Actually, wouldn't diesel work just fine as fuel for a hydromagnetic
turbine
>>power plant?
>>
> 
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