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plans are pulling together and things are looking up.
this is the begging of a beautiful friendship.
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heh... friendship
Given all the easy, reasonable and hard to get fuel resources have been grabbed already, trying to get the difficult stuff first off aint going to be working. Need to consider synthgas, digester gas, and all the other renewable oils. Not in what was grown before the Event, with all the mechanised support, but the lower yield stuff that needs vastly less support requirements.
If you had perfect growing conditions, mature apple trees apparently throw out an order of magnitude more ehtanol source per acre year than even spuds. Corn ethanol is even worse.
Digesters, because you dont need to dry out a cut and collected crop before getting the gas out, and the cooking helps when the sewage is thrown in as well to sterilise and result in high mineral fertiliser. Lack of pesticides etc means more worms for the humus, biomatter, makes soil.
Next day, find out just what the mega aid warehouse has in stock?
This chapter contained neither eggs nor bakey
I am disappointed.
Would it not be worthwhile to look into biodiesel production facilities before grain rots and spoils in the silos? I admit, I know absolutely nothing about biodiesel or oil production from grains, but mixing it with diesel should stretch supplies longer. Just a thought.
Also, looking about can lead to wonders, yes?
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As a matter of fact I have been looking into the field of oil reconditioning for the purpose of this story. As far as I know the technique is currently mostly used for lube oils but remains viable for diesel fuel oil. Now, the articles I have found sometimes vary on the efficiency of the process, but this offers a nice comparison.
Presently the situation in the story is as such: they have the possibility of retrieving unspoiled fuel from shore tanks in large quantities at a rate of 1 unit of volume retrieved for 1 usable.
Once they reach the 6 months spoilage date, provided that they have acquired oil reconditioning units, and have the chemicals to boost their efficiency beyong mechanical means; then they may get oil at the rate of about 3 to 6 units retrieved for 1 unit of usable fuel. (i.e. : you need 3 tons of spoiled fuel for 1 of usable fuel) Do consider that at that point the whole worldwide fleet will still be below a dozen vessels with hundreds of thousand of tons (if not millions) of spoiled fuel available in shore tanks.
Going past that possibility, there are still billions of tons of crude oil available for extraction. If the supply could last until 2050 with the current worldwide fleet of 55.000 vessels and more than seven billion people alive, then it should be no issue to survive on a few oil fields. I for one know that many oil exploitationists keep a few smaller fields already fitted with subsea templates and a submerged turret, but are not extracting because the price of a barrel is too low. Such installations, according to the standards of paint coatings, can survive anywhere from 15 to 25 years submerged in seawater; and I'm not even starting with the oil fields on land. The submerged installations really only need one ship to plug herself to the turret and start up her pumps to resume extraction.
As a further note, what data I have found on the efficiency of oil refineries tell me the efficiency rate is at about 30 to 60 volumes of crude refined to produce one volume of fuel.
By my reckoning (and understand, I may be wrong and I have a vetted interest in the oil industry being a tanker sailor), keeping to fossil fuel in the future following the Event would be far less manpower intensive than starting to produce biofuel crops. A tanker and a refinery would reach in the 200 souls needed for viable operation. Maintaining enough fields and distilleries to produce enough biofuel to field vessels that, need I remind you, can chug approximately 20 tons of fuel a day while underway is something that, while viable with a functionning civilization, is an excessive drain of ressources on a post-Event organisation.
A bit long-winded, but I hope you got the gist of my reflection.
This chapter is pretty close to the right size. Short enough to be easily readable, long enough to move the story along by a useful degree.
Longer chapters make readers set it aside for later reading "When more dedicatable time is available".
Short chapters fail to move the entire story along, or fail to move it a useful distance. Too short and you can barely fit a fully developed scene into it.
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Like I said, I know little about the subject. I bow to your superior knowledge. Then again, as a former nuclear reactor engineer, I do confess to a bias...
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Ouch, Im not sure of teh conversion efficiency, I like sunflower oil with simple cooking and filter conditioning to diesel method, but vey quick and dirty estimation puts each ship would need approx 4 to 10 square miles of crops with comprehensive house plots to medium towns of 10-100 thousand for food and resources support, where such a town, eventually could process maybe 50 square miles? But, given the return rate and breeding rates, thats a lot of years in the future.
There's only one place to go if they want to salvage a hovercraft, Griffon Hoverwork in Southampton. Currently there are three AP1-88 craft laid up near there at Hythe - one cargo and passenger model and two passenger ones (visible on google maps here).
Two more slightly longer passenger AP1- 88s which are more recently used are at the factory a little further up the Itchen River - Freedom 90 and Island Express along with the much larger BHT130 Solent Express. There'll be some smaller ones there as well - the new 1200TD (Flyer class) ones on the Portsmouth - isle of Wight route are likely to have vanished if they were operating, and despite being modern and having fewer engines to guzzle fuel they do not manever as smoothly as an 88 and have an unfortunate tendancy to break down....