Michael replied to me: > >Hargrave H-6 Cargo Submarine v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5) > > > The submarine has twin gasoline engines for surface travel, with fuel > >for 2,000 nautical miles at 8 knots routine travel speed. Submerged, it > >can sustain 2.5 knots for 24 hours or 4.8 knots for 4 hours on battery > >power. At routine travel speed, the engines burn 48 gallons of gas per > >hour. A full load of fuel is $3,600. > > Would such a sub really use gasoline engines? On Earth, some early > 20th > Century submarines (such as Holland No. 1) used a gasoline engine for > surface operations, but, by (IIRC) WWI, gasoline engines (requiring > volatile > gasoline, which could lead to fires and vapor explosions while submerged) > were replaced by safer Diesel engines.
WWI is soundly TL6, according to the old TL system. So are diesel engines. It may be an unfortunate simplification, but for TL5 the only internal combustion engine is a gas engine. Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
