On 12/5/05, Onno Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
How do you start a 500+ horsepower gasoline engine without an electric starter? I'm pretty sure there never was such a thing at real world TL5. -- David Scheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
