Marine gas turbines can be designed to burn lower-quality fuel than the high-grade product required by aircraft. The Royal Navy's historical expansion of fuel storage in the mid-to-late 1930s provides a place to absorb the new requirement. Large guaranteed orders could attract additional refining capacity and reduce unit cost even though the fuel would remain more expensive to procure initially. Multi-fuel designs using kerosene, diesel-like fuels, or other combustibles would further reduce the danger of tying the whole fleet to one scarce aviation-grade product.
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A gas-turbine fleet needs a different fuel economy
Fleet-wide turbine adoption changes fuel refining, stockpiling, and purchasing as well as the machinery inside each ship.