Posted on 06/06/2011 8:55:38 AM PDT by bananaman22
Twentieth-century American military history has two iconic dates - 7 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor and 6 June 1944, D-Day, when the liberation of Europe began.
The subsequent vicious Allied fight from Normandy to Germany saw the Nazis largely fueled by a technology that is now being promoted by the Republican Congressional leadership, in collusion with its munificent fiscal campaign energy supporters, as a way to lessen U.S. dependence on energy imports.
At issue is the Fishcher-Tropsch coal liquefaction process, developed by energy-poor Germany in the 1920s and expanded by the Nazi regime. Bent on dominating Europe, Hitler’s war machine suffered from increasing fuel shortages, first in September 1939 when Britain’s Royal Navy clamped a naval blockade on the Baltic, exacerbated in June1941 when the invasion of the USSR ended Soviet energy imports, leaving Germany largely dependent on Romania’s Ploesti oilfields after the failure of Army Group south to capture the Caucasus and Azerbaijan’s rich Caspian resources. FT production became increasingly critical to fueling Hitler’s war machine from then onwards, given Germany’s immense coal reserves.
By 1944, Germany was producing 124,000 barrels of synthetic fuels daily at 25 FT plants. FT was subsequently commercialized by South Africa’s apartheid regime, beginning in the 1950s through South Africa's state energy company Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Olie (SASOL), founded in 1950, now a private company and the world’s leading proponent of FT. In the early 1980s, as UN sanctions against South Africa began to take effect, two large coal to liquid (CTL) SASOL production facilities were commissioned and now form the single largest and most profitable asset in SASOL's global portfolio. Full article at: Coal liquefacation
Yellowish.
Forget the Fatherland solution. In this case, we have a much better, home-grown process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrick_process
From captured Nazi's scientist."
Actually a jet propulsion engine was developed simultaneously in England & Germany.
ENGLAND: Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine (some years earlier than Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain) and is hailed by some as the father of jet propulsion......... Whittle's engine was starting to look useful, and his Power Jets Ltd. started receiving Air Ministry money. In 1941 a flyable version of the engine called the W.1, capable of 1000 lbf (4 kN) of thrust, was fitted to the Gloster E28/39 airframe specially built for it, and first flew on May 15, 1941 at RAF Cranwell.
GERMANY: "In 1935 Hans von Ohain started work on a similar design in Germany, apparently unaware of Whittle's work. His first device was strictly experimental and could only run under external power, but he was able to demonstrate the basic concept. Ohain was then introduced to Ernst Heinkel, one of the larger aircraft industrialists of the day, who immediately saw the promise of the design.......Their subsequent designs culminated in the gasoline-fuelled HeS 3 of 1,100 lbf (5 kN), which was fitted to Heinkel's simple and compact He 178 airframe and flown by Erich Warsitz in the early morning of August 27, 1939, from Rostock-Marienehe aerodrome, an impressively short time for development. The He 178 was the world's first jet plane. "and The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft!
Don’t start stalking and dragging one thread to another, if you have an unfinished conversation on another thread, then post on it.
Hey, don’t let your imagination run wild. I was posting on-topic over here. We were talking about Nazi’s and it occured to me that in a reverse world the Nazi’s would be concentration-camp-killing blondes, so I thought I’d mention what that might sound like if a German said it.
But are you BLONDE????
I'm betting you're a GINGER!
Hey, don’t let your imagination run wild. I was posting on-topic over here. We were talking about Nazi’s and it occured to me that in a reverse world the Nazi’s would be concentration-camp-killing blondes, so I thought I’d mention what that might sound like if a German said it.
Don’t stalk.
You’re stalking me right now. Cut it out.
Please tell me that is a joke.
John Daly: genius! Yep.
Oh brother....by the same logic swept wing jet planes are Nazi-era Technology Embraced by everone
verner von brown?
nasa?
rockets?
space program?
talk about selective memory.
Yamaha is based on the NSU motorcycle engine.
Nazism and communism are minor variants of the same thing. One had spiffier uniforms, the other happened to choose the winning side in the War.
I thought as much..... ;-)
He's such a stalker.
Nazi Germany gave Ike the Idea for the Interstate Highway System when he saw the German AutoBan after WW II.
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