Sorry if I mixed up - I meant of course the easiest one to make -SVO -straight vegetable oil when I said bio fuel .
As I understand it can be used with most direct injection / mechanical pump injection diesel engines after filtration - and that solidification without a preheater - starts at around 5 C* -or in terms of incomplerte combustion I mean .
Anyways -back on topic - I see this as a possible strategic advantage for the people out in the country side -who once again will revert to a system of landownership equals power - like we have had for most of our settled history .
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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I have seen everyone talking about Bio fuel. That's a nice idea but I don't see how it can be relevant to the game. With the first timeline, it would be almost non existent. I don't recall that you had much biofuel 15 years ago.
With T2013 you could find some but it remain marginal and there are no reason to maintain its production. Anyway bio fuel is mostly fuel with an addition of bio products. You won't have the fuel to make it.
Alcohol, wood, vegetable oil remain the best option and only ones IMO. As someone pointed out you can run diesel on almost 100% vegetable oil (except in cold weather). Then, you need to mix it a bit (much less than biofuel) to use it even in cold weather (freezing will remain a problem but it will be reduced). Wood can be use with ease and you don't need high tech to make a gazogene. Then you can addapt one on any vehicles (as long as it is the size of car and as long as it doesn't rely on electronics). I don't know the process to modify a vehicle to alcohol but that seems faisable (moreover, military vehicles are increasingly made to run on several type of fuels). Producing alcohol in fair quantity is not that hard, it might be long but not that hard (the main dificulty would be to have a fairly pure product as someone pointed out). One thing with alcohol is that you can make it from about everything (no need to use your food for that). You just need to fill some kind of tank with water and vegetable products and let that macerate for some times (in the process you might even be able to collect gas). When you get what you wanted you just need to distilate the thing. I keep it simple here but that's basicaly it and, again, quantity would be the main problem. I agree that the process as described in T2K is unrealistic but you still don't need any tech to make it (these kind of processes have been known for centuries already).
As such, I don't see biofuel to be around at all.
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