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do we drill for oil in the future? - masternerdguy - 06-22-2010
It may be an old fuel, but it still has a high energy content for its ease of supply.
do we drill for oil in the future? - BaconSoda - 06-22-2010
See: Gallia.
Oil, though, may have evolved into a term given to some high energy density rocks in space. I say this because that would make the most sense. It would also provide the EFL with something to do. Using fossil fuels as a fuel source in an age of cold fusion and faster-than-light travel seems silly, also. So, yeah, in a sense, oil still is drilled for in Gallia.
do we drill for oil in the future? - RonG777 - 06-22-2010
Drill Baby Drill ! ! ! . . .
The ideas of how fossil fuels can be efficient compared to other technologies out there is wide open for debate in Disco land . . We really don't know for sure how the Gallics can use this fuel as efficient as H-fuel . .
I say lets run with this and see what happens . . :)
do we drill for oil in the future? - Sprolf - 06-22-2010
' Wrote:See: Gallia.
Oil, though, may have evolved into a term given to some high energy density rocks in space. I say this because that would make the most sense. It would also provide the EFL with something to do. Using fossil fuels as a fuel source in an age of cold fusion and faster-than-light travel seems silly, also. So, yeah, in a sense, oil still is drilled for in Gallia.
Fuel by any other name would burn as well.
I'm not sure if it works the other way around.
do we drill for oil in the future? - Tenacity - 06-22-2010
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do we drill for oil in the future? - Donutman - 06-22-2010
I think Gallia uses the oil for something other than fuel.....you know, like plastics. Especially since Gallia is supposed to be more advanced than the other houses and the other ones seem to use cold fusion so.........
do we drill for oil in the future? - Tenacity - 06-22-2010
People seem to think that because gallia supposedly uses oil as a fuel, that means they're less technologically advanced than the other houses using fusion drives.
Chances are, gallia is using similar ship drives. Those ship drives require energy - electricity - to run. The difference is that the houses tend to use nuclear reactors (remember our lovely fuel called MOX?) to create that power, whereas gallic ships are most likely using oil combustion reactors to create that power. On the outside, the engines are pretty much the same, it's just what the core of the ship is using to power those engines that matters.
The houses are relatively rich in radioactive fuels, plutonium, uranium, and the like. Perhaps radioactive materials are scarce in Gallia, but that oil fuel is quite abundant, and provides an efficient and ready-at-hand resource to use as an alternative.
do we drill for oil in the future? - ugliestmoose - 06-22-2010
Rocket fuel is not made from oil however. I was thinking more along the lines of what Kablob said, that they use oil for plastics.
Then again, it's the future which means that everything is magical and therefore why am I even trying to make sense of this.
do we drill for oil in the future? - masternerdguy - 06-22-2010
' Wrote:Rocket fuel is not made from oil however. I was thinking more along the lines of what Kablob said, that they use oil for plastics.
Then again, it's the future which means that everything is magical and therefore why am I even trying to make sense of this.
also, even today, you can get bacteria to produce gasoline and other complex hydrocarbons, but noone has yet capitolized on that industry.
do we drill for oil in the future? - BaconSoda - 06-22-2010
' Wrote:Fuel by any other name would burn as well.
I'm not sure if it works the other way around.
Well, we're talking about an age that doesn't even acknowledge old oil as a fuel source. They've migrated lightyears away, even. It might make some degree of sense to, in a brief moment of nostalgia, name some kind of neato new molecule after that black gold. Not outside the realm of possibility at all, I don't think, and, hey, if it helps make sense of things, why not?