Chapter 264 (1/2)

Coal to oil? This technology is already in use in Germany, but it is a drop in the bucket.

In the history of later generations, in order to make up for the oil gap, Germany used the technology of coal to oil to convert coal into oil. Then, after the war, why didn't other countries do so?

No other reason, the cost is too high!

Even in later generations, with more advanced technology, we can use four tons of coal and convert it into one ton of gasoline.

Yes, it can only be gasoline. Turning coal into oil can only become gasoline. Moreover, turning coal into oil in Germany can only become No. 87 gasoline, and the label can no longer be improved.

Therefore, during World War II, many German equipment and tanks of the main force used gasoline, which is the reason why coal to oil can only be converted to gasoline.

The low gasoline grade also limits the development of Air Force aircraft, and efficient superchargers cannot be broken through. Because the low gasoline grade has a low ignition point, the high-altitude performance of German fighters is seriously insufficient.

Now, these are not problems. Libya's oil can blow out at any time. Germany doesn't have to worry about fuel. Therefore, almost all German ground forces are equipped with diesel engines, and German aircraft have long used high-grade fuel.

These can not be provided by coal to oil conversion. Therefore, although there is coal to oil conversion in Germany, it is not carried out in a large number.

In addition to coal to oil, another technology is shale oil.

In later generations, shale oil seems to be a hot topic. It seems that shale oil has become popular in recent years. In fact, shale oil has existed for a long time.

The shale oil industry in Western Europe began in 1835, when France built the world's first shale oil plant to dry distill the oil shale to generate shale oil.

At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the development of automobile industry and the outbreak of the first World War, the demand for internal combustion engine fuel increased greatly, and the production of shale oil in Western Europe was further developed.

For example, this year, in 1937, shale oil production in Western Europe reached 500 thousand tons.

After World War II, these shale oil industries stopped because the cost of shale oil could not compete with cheap natural oil.

Unfortunately, judging from the distribution of shale oil, Germany only has a small area in the northwest.

Now, Germany is also carrying out industrial production of shale oil, but these are far from meeting the needs of mechanized forces.

So, only import!

After World War I, Germany lost all its colonies and was unable to obtain cheap oil resources.

The most abundant and easily exploited Middle East production areas in the world have been divided up by the victorious countries in World War I. almost all of these areas are British colonies, and Germany is simply unable to touch these areas.