The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea: spin-off of Hendryk's 'Superpower Empire: China 1912'

How is Chernobyl butterflied away? While you make references to energy generation, how do things like fuel efficiency develop in this world?

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Would you mind terribly if I borrowed some of that?

Wouldn't really worry me, although remember that what I've written about OTEC is speculative. Based on available research, of course, but no-one's actually gotten beyond proof-of-concept stage with OTEC. Yet.

Thanks again, Jared, for a splendid and well-researched spin-off TL. I'm grateful for the time and effort you put into this even though you already have a TL of your own going (and what a TL it is).

It's been fun. Albeit weird to work with a POD which starts in the twentieth century.

Great stuff, Jared, and thanks for doing this! Where'd you find the awesome artwork?

It had been sitting in my hard drive for some time. I sent him the pics, and he made improvements to some of them.

Minor improvements. I basically just relabelled a couple of parts of the original artwork.

Great stuff - really impressed with the quality of the research and the writing.

Glad you like it.

I wasn't expecting this to be over so soon. It was a short, but most interesting ride. This is sure a crazy world/20th century that it's being created here.

The main chronological section is complete, not the TL as a whole. What I wanted to do first was to create a chronological outline of the main events and developments of OTEC. This is because they will link to developments in the main SPE: 1912 v3.0 timeline, so having them established first will be helpful. And they may, of course, be referred to in the Tales, too.

I do have some other ideas which I will probably write that will flesh out more of how OTEC develops. Since I want to keep working on my own main timeline, though, developing these ideas may take a bit longer.

The two ideas which I have so far are for a "guided tour" of Sealand-1 when it eventually becomes operational, and a polemical piece written by an extreme environmentalist who is critical of the "dark side" of OTEC technology.

How is Chernobyl butterflied away?

The chain of events which led up to the Chernobyl disaster in OTL were highly contingent. Basically, everything which could go wrong did. While it's certainly possible for a similar disaster to happen in another timeline, it's by no means guaranteed.

While you make references to energy generation, how do things like fuel efficiency develop in this world?

I didn't go into much detail here (perhaps a later post or part of the main SPE v3.0 timeline). But in general the successive oil shocks produce a considerable incentive for fuel efficiency, which only gets greater with the rising fuel prices in the last few years of the century.

I'm not sure whether this has (yet) led to things like hybrids or electric cars, but there's potential for that. Hendryk, what do you think?
 

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Wouldn't really worry me, although remember that what I've written about OTEC is speculative. Based on available research, of course, but no-one's actually gotten beyond proof-of-concept stage with OTEC. Yet.
And it's about bloody time they did. The technology's been there for decades.

The main chronological section is complete, not the TL as a whole. What I wanted to do first was to create a chronological outline of the main events and developments of OTEC. This is because they will link to developments in the main SPE: 1912 v3.0 timeline, so having them established first will be helpful.
In other words, I need to get a move on :eek:

I didn't go into much detail here (perhaps a later post or part of the main SPE v3.0 timeline). But in general the successive oil shocks produce a considerable incentive for fuel efficiency, which only gets greater with the rising fuel prices in the last few years of the century.

I'm not sure whether this has (yet) led to things like hybrids or electric cars, but there's potential for that. Hendryk, what do you think?
I consider that in the absence of oil countershocks and the price of oil remaining high after the 1970s, the development of electric car engines (as well as biodiesel and other alternatives to oil) is a decade to a decade and a half more advanced than in OTL by the turn of the 21st century. This, of course, is part of a broader societal consensus in favor of sustainability.
 
And it's about bloody time they did. The technology's been there for decades.

A good point. But technology tends to get taken up only when there's a market for it. Which there is now, with rising energy prices, but not so much before.

In other words, I need to get a move on :eek:

I'm in no position to hurry anyone else up when I'm at least 9 months behind on reviewing some of the Tales posts for DoD.

I consider that in the absence of oil countershocks and the price of oil remaining high after the 1970s, the development of electric car engines (as well as biodiesel and other alternatives to oil) is a decade to a decade and a half more advanced than in OTL by the turn of the 21st century. This, of course, is part of a broader societal consensus in favor of sustainability.

Makes sense, although it leads to the question whether emphasis on biofuels has driven food prices up even higher. Especially if TTL's America follows the same differently sane agricultural policy which OTL's United States has pursued.

Yes, unless you're going with Doctor Strangelove style One Year IRL=One Year ITL progress. ;)

Hard to get more realistic than that...
 
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