What if in the 1936 plan Nazi Germany decided to make a greater effort in the use of converting coal to fuel? Instead of the 21 plants eventually constructed 100 plants were constructed in Greater Germany vastly increasing Germany's supply of fuel.
1st problem with the idea is money. If they decide that such investment is a good idea, and still go in the war with SU and USA, they still loose.
Why didn't they West during the OPEC oil crisis go to the same technology they could probably do it cleaner and we get more coal and we can last for a long time.What if in the 1936 plan Nazi Germany decided to make a greater effort in the use of converting coal to fuel? Instead of the 21 plants eventually constructed 100 plants were constructed in Greater Germany vastly increasing Germany's supply of fuel.
And yet, they did.exactly - they would not go into such a war.
there was mandate to use producer gas vehicles (the water heater sized tanks towed or carried that could use literally any type of fuel, wood chips, peat moss, and coal) but it did not happen until 1942, saving 5 million barrels the first year and over 8 million barrels in 1943.
what if that mandate had been issued in 1938 or 1939? that equals immediate savings without long construction time of synthetic plants and not subject to future Allied bombing.
That’s not really an issue until they’ve already lost and just haven’t been beaten yet.Assuming that Germany found a way to save all that oil, where do they store it?
Let me rephrase that: where do they store it such that Allied bombers don’t blow it to kingdom come?
there was mandate to use producer gas vehicles (the water heater sized tanks towed or carried that could use literally any type of fuel, wood chips, peat moss, and coal) but it did not happen until 1942, saving 5 million barrels the first year and over 8 million barrels in 1943.
what if that mandate had been issued in 1938 or 1939? that equals immediate savings without long construction time of synthetic plants and not subject to future Allied bombing.
Assuming that Germany found a way to save all that oil, where do they store it?
Let me rephrase that: where do they store it such that Allied bombers don’t blow it to kingdom come?
they would have won the war.
Assuming for now that the investment needed to scale up coal to liquids earlier, faster and further than OTL doesn't bring the German economy to a creaming halt, how exactly does the extra oil drastically alter the calculus of 1939-1941? It wasn't like the Germans were critically short of more conventional fuel for most of that period.they would have won the war.
And yet, they did.
Anyhoo, IIRC the best use Germany could make of it was using the dcl process, as that worked better for the coal actually found in Germany.
And as always, where does the massive amount of money come from? If Germany can’t afford an army to use that oil then there was no point.