• Uranium 🟩
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    25 days ago

    Silly one, and but do tanks run on diesel?

    Every other heavy machine I can think of typically uses diesel for their engines: tractors, lorries, boats.

    Also diesel is less flammable then petrol or hydrogen in the event of a spill of leak…

      • Miles O'Brien
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        925 days ago

        The Abrams can run on just about anything liquid and flammable. It’s not gonna be happy about it, but it’ll go.

        I think it was designed by pakleds…

          • Miles O'Brien
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            525 days ago

            Wasn’t trying to call you out for being wrong or only partially correct, just think it’s neat all the stuff they considered when designing and testing it.

            • @[email protected]
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              425 days ago

              Right, no worries. I was just being lazy and didn’t wanna explain. You did and did it in less words than I would’ve needed.

    • @[email protected]
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      725 days ago

      The problem with diesel is that there has been a cap in their efficiency for quite some time. We’ve pretty much tweaked as much speed and efficiency out of what is possible with diesel tanks, which is why the Abrams has a turbine engine.

      As tanks become heavier and heavier the only real solution is to migrate to electric motors, which are more efficient and vastly more reliable than diesel or turbine.

      Just like with trains, the future of tanks are electric motors, and until we find a battery material more efficient and safe than lithium, hydrogen fuel cells are likely going to be the solution.

      • @[email protected]
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        524 days ago

        The correct solution is for tanks to drag a power cable and a water cooling loop behind them. This will make them invisible to thermals.