I just read on Wikipedia that the Fischer–Tropsch method accounted for 92% of Germany's air fuel and 50% of their petroleum supply in the 1940s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_liquefaction#Historical_background
Contrasting it with the Japanese war machine's achilles heel - lack of energy - it seems like a no brainer that Germany would benefit from sharing the tech with their ally.
If the Samurai had a way od producing liquid fuels by using wood (a quick search tells me that you can indeed use wood for that) or coal, it could've been a game changer.
There is the potential problem of transporting coal from Europe to Japan (if they made such an agreement, given how much of this resource Germany has), but I'm sure they would've found a way to prevent those transports from being intercepted.
It's funny to see people refer to imperial Japan as samurais when they were the ones who destroyed the samurai class.
Western imperialism started it
they didn't do it to be anti-samurai. They did it because they figured pulverizing culture and turning it into industry was the key to becoming white.
Yeah i always wondered where did Germany get their fuel from. Looks like they were making it themselves.
If wood can be used for it, it is a no brainer to give them the tech.
Seems like the Germans were far worse strategists than they were engineers.
The Japanese Wikipedia says it was used in Japan
>At the time, the government believed that it would be cheaper to rely on the hypothetical enemy, the United States, for oil than to rely on domestically produced synthetic oil, so Japan was more than 10 years behind Germany in starting the construction of an artificial oil factory, leaving Japan on the brink of self-sufficiency. was flawed.
Ok, the Japs were not the best strategists as well...
Wow what a blunder.
Yamamoto being great strategist
Synthetic oil didn't save Germany, all it did was let them limp along during the losing years of the war.
Also Japan simply didn't have the coal so it's a completely useless argument anyway.
China has plenty of coal though.
Japan had plenty of coal in Hokkaido and Kyushu Yakuza was created on behalf of coal mine owners
>Also Japan simply didn't have the coal so it's a completely useless argument anyway
I am pretty sure at that time they had enough coal to make some oil out of it.
It was a very inefficient and expensive method (Germany had coal shortages because of it).
It also produced low quality fuel that could not have been used for the long range fighters that Japan needed in the Pacific.
>but I'm sure they would've found a way to prevent those transports from
Are you joking? Have you heard of the blockade? Germany could barely get some submarines through to Japan.
>it was a very inefficient and expensive method
In war, you take whatever you can. And you have to be self sufficient. Costs are a lower priority in a war economy.
>Why didn't the USA share their tech of turning mass into energy with the Soviet Union?
Here's a good study about Japan's strugles with synthetic liquid fuels:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/00033799300200211
The Japs apparently didn't anticipate the American embargo and didn't bother with this technology.
Because the Japanese and Germans were chronically suspicious of each other and couldn't coordinate their goals or policies for shit beyond the fact that they shared enemies. As late as 1939 they were still seething at each other because Jap officials kept getting harassed by Hitlerjugend on the streets of Germany because they were yellow monkeys and German officers, training and gear sent to the Nationalist Chinese were making Japan's strategically pointless military quagmire in China a lot harder than it needed to be
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>moronic post
>/threads his own post
like clockwork
This shit wasn't enough to fix Germany's chronic oil shortage so why would it help Japan's?