tanks should use diseal

[Wild Wrecker]

I think thanks should use this because it will be more benifical and allow more tanks to fight and i get many ppl dont want it but hear me out. Tanks will lose the fuel if on flatbed or freighter and it will cost a lot of fuel to travel it to other regions so maybe 33/diseal a minute so they have to stop and refuel constantly.

[i do games]

well the game states that Petrol is just a more efficient fuel type so diesel should absolutely be an option for all vehicles, just 3x less efficient ie: uses more

[gamer]

they should nuke teammates that hit them
xd

[NotReally]

Originally posted by i do games:

well the game states that Petrol is just a more efficient fuel type so diesel should absolutely be an option for all vehicles, just 3x less efficient ie: uses more

Well, the thing is... diesel engine and petrol engine are two different things, this means that we would have to get new set of vehicles that roam the battlefield, they can be same models. Petrol powered vehicles would be faster while diesel ones would be slower and more sluggish turning.

[FatOldCat]

Some of these machines from the 1940's/1950's were more well designed than anything from the post millennial, even though many people would clench their air conditioners and argue that their keyless entry modern machine is a masterpiece of perfection.

In fact, the Continental Motors and White Motor companies were working on turbocharged multifuel engines that could operate on a variety of fuels - diesel, kerosene, fuel oil and gasoline. It may seem strange to you, but it's not - during the refining process of crude oil there are 3 main things extracted from crude oil, naptha comes off the top, diesel in the middle, and fuel oil out the bottom. Essentially fuel oil is the worst thing to put in an engine because it has the most particulates in it, while diesel oil has fewer particulates, and naptha has the least particulates. This naptha is what's refined farther into kerosene, gasoline, plastics, etc. The diesel oil also needs to be refined into proper diesel fuel after the initial process. (Unrelated: Factorio actually "simulates" these 3 main components, but calls them different names. Light Oil in Factorio is your basic diesel oil and Heavy Oil is like your fuel oil. The heavier oils in Factorio & real life can be re-circulated in the initial refinery and processed into more naptha/petro gas.) Diesel oil and diesel fuel aren't the same thing! If you were wondering, yes, naptha is in fact camp fuel. The reason it's sold directly like that is because it's cheaper to buy, since it's less refined and therefore less explosive than gasoline.

All these fuels can burn inside a special diesel engine with spark plugs. Of course, the spark plugs will get soaked in oil and no longer work if you run diesel in the engine, but if you're desperate and gasoline is the only source of fuel around, you can pull each spark plug out and wipe off the oil to make them work with the gasoline fuel. Most people were probably lazy and would just flood the engine with gasoline, which acts like a solvent, using the excess gasoline to wash the spark plugs clean and then wait 10 minutes before starting the engine again (Allowing the excess to evaporate). So, now you probably know why you may have seen pictures of 'fouled' spark plugs, but never seen it happen before. This technology was like our alpha games. Engines had the typical live branch [consumers] and experimental branch [military]. The military, of course, needed top of the line technology.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifuel#Military_multifuel_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Motors_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Motor_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M54_5-ton_6x6_truck <--- Our Cargo Truck in Foxhole!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

Sidenotes:

The actual component in the fuel that causes combustion is called heptane or cetane. However, it's the octane rating that we live by at the fuel pumps, in our owners manuals and in aviation publications. The octane rating is the percentage of non-compression-ignition properties in the fuel, whereas the cetane rating is the percentage of compression-ignition properties in the fuel. In many cases, we pay a premium to have a fuel that is compressible with lower pressure. (Sold as premium gasoline.) Meanwhile, in a diesel engine, we want a fuel that explodes when compressed. (And, after the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, we know what happens when rail cars full of high cetane fuel collide and compress together, so do we really need to cite a source for this?!)

[Fèru Or]

light tanks, at the very least, should be able to use diesel fuel...