Re: Yamato's fuel situation-Nov 42?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:16 pm
Driving fast is always "costly", for us normal people in most cases at the gasoline station... but many ships can reduce consumption by 50% with only going a few knots lower... Best Example: Yamato at full speed did need 70 tons fuel per hour! It was also used, like Tirpitz to refuel smaller nearby ships in some situations, since only the US with its almost endless industrial and ressource potential had a large "army" of "replenishment oilers", which also had food, water, ammo but mostly fuel... alone these ships together consumed much oil the Axis did not had (or ironic, they had but did not know what they were standing on in Algeria, Libya and also in Netherland (Gröningen Gas Field, could power whole Ruhrgebiet and more, as secret as possible smaller fields close to Norwegian coast could have been drilled for a time when British would not know that).
War was lost faster because of oil IMHO! But since we all are here I prefer this timeline and not one with Axis Powers with the giant oil fields under their controll, only way would have been "Operation Walküre" of 1944 Stauffenberg. Killing Hitler and all his henchmen and arrest SS-Troops and than negotiate... if I were patriotic (I'm not, no real German even strictly seen) I would say this would be a good plan, to kill Hitler in late 1940, when many European countries already have been tanken but mass Murder did not start...
Like the British and US the Germans could have made after-war cash with their special infos^^
Right now where ship diesel, residual fuel or heavy oil for ship propulsion is cheap many ships which are able to cross Sues Canal (it was upgraded some years ago so that even deeper ships could pass it, and a 2nd parallel route was created... but they take over 400,000 US-$ for large ships, or they took in 2012... now I think even more. Egypt needs this money, but more often ships drive through whole Africa... no pirates since they do not drive close to Somali pirate Area, low speed, and the cash for the small crew does not really matter...
New Ships are also build at sizes where they will never can use Panama or even Sues Canal... and it is unlikely that the US-$ price per barrel goes up to 100%.
Driving cars gets really expensive at 120 km/h and higher, real bad at 180 km/h for most models... and on the Autobahn when we drive already 120-140 km/h sometimes a car on the 2nd lane drives so fast that we see him only a few seconds, meaning he is driving over 200 km/h... this can make an expensive car using 25 liters per 100 kilometer... and also on "non luxurary"-cars it gets really heavy above 200, since in some medium-cars the engine must give 80% of the possible maximum speed (no electric blocker at 250km/h), so the medium-class car motor really runs near limit than... now with low oil prices the tempo is increasing a bit on the roads, and new bought cars.. fuel efficient once was one of the most important points... now it is still, but not that important anymore....
War was lost faster because of oil IMHO! But since we all are here I prefer this timeline and not one with Axis Powers with the giant oil fields under their controll, only way would have been "Operation Walküre" of 1944 Stauffenberg. Killing Hitler and all his henchmen and arrest SS-Troops and than negotiate... if I were patriotic (I'm not, no real German even strictly seen) I would say this would be a good plan, to kill Hitler in late 1940, when many European countries already have been tanken but mass Murder did not start...
Like the British and US the Germans could have made after-war cash with their special infos^^
Right now where ship diesel, residual fuel or heavy oil for ship propulsion is cheap many ships which are able to cross Sues Canal (it was upgraded some years ago so that even deeper ships could pass it, and a 2nd parallel route was created... but they take over 400,000 US-$ for large ships, or they took in 2012... now I think even more. Egypt needs this money, but more often ships drive through whole Africa... no pirates since they do not drive close to Somali pirate Area, low speed, and the cash for the small crew does not really matter...
New Ships are also build at sizes where they will never can use Panama or even Sues Canal... and it is unlikely that the US-$ price per barrel goes up to 100%.
Driving cars gets really expensive at 120 km/h and higher, real bad at 180 km/h for most models... and on the Autobahn when we drive already 120-140 km/h sometimes a car on the 2nd lane drives so fast that we see him only a few seconds, meaning he is driving over 200 km/h... this can make an expensive car using 25 liters per 100 kilometer... and also on "non luxurary"-cars it gets really heavy above 200, since in some medium-cars the engine must give 80% of the possible maximum speed (no electric blocker at 250km/h), so the medium-class car motor really runs near limit than... now with low oil prices the tempo is increasing a bit on the roads, and new bought cars.. fuel efficient once was one of the most important points... now it is still, but not that important anymore....