Rheinland's engines STILL run on MOX?

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And Gallic engines run on ... Oil. Seriously, Oil as a fusion fuel?!
Make that Promethene which makes way more sense, according to the lore.

How are Gallic engines so efficient with oil based fuel? Pls tell me, I want to cut down on the gas bill for my car :S

The Gallic engines have been cleared already.

Just take the CNO cycle. It makes He from H, uses C as a catalyst, which in the process becomes N, O and then C again, starting the whole over. It takes a lot of heat and pressure to maintain the process and then it yields a lot of energy in return. That's the science part.

Now take an other, theoretical catalyst, let it be Promethene. It is so sweet it lets you do the magic on a way lower level of heat and pressure required, so it becomes way more user-friendly. Drawback is that the cycle ends halfway through, you lose half of the energy yield, the original catalists/reagents C and H and exhaust N2 gas. That's the fiction part.

And then guess what. In Oil, we have a lot of C and H. Put it in an engine, put Promethene next to it, heat it up well (a relatively small amount of activation energy is most probably required), and then watch how it flies through the sector leaving nitrogen trails behind itself. You got science, you got fiction, add them up and you have science-fiction.

That's actually pretty well thought out, thanks for clearing up the whole thing, man!

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