Editing Fuel Tank

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A [[Fuel Tank]] is a kind of [[ship equipment]] in the form of a container designed to store [[fuel]]. 
* Fuel tanks are used by a great variety of vehicles, smallcraft, bigcraft, boats, and other vessel types. 
 
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
Conventional fuel tanks are designed as a fixed part of a vehicle or ship. Hydrogen is the most widely used fuel within Charted Space. 

=== Collapsible Tanks ===
Insulated fuel bladders may be carried in the [[Cargo Hold|cargo hold]] to provide additional [[Ship Fuel|fuel]]: they may may not exceed the total tonnage of the [[Cargo Hold|cargo hold]]. This [[Hydrogen|fuel]] may not be used directly, but must be first pumped into the ship’s normal fuel tanks. When empty, they can be stored at 1% of their full volume. They may be installed at any [[Class A Starport|class A]] or [[Class B Starport|B]] [[starport]] in one [[week]] and cost [[Cr]]500 per [[Ton]].
* [[Fuel Scoop]]s may be directly connected to a collapsible fuel tank.

== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
[[Internal Combustion Engine]]s tend to the first common fuel-using engines used by a [[sophont]] species. The earliest [[ICE]] engines tend to use [[hydrocarbon]]s and refined petrochemicals as [[fuel]]. 

By the [[TL:13-15]] [[technological epoch]], [[hydrogen]] becomes the most commonly used fuel in use by [[Fusion+]] [[power plant]]s.

== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
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|S1= [[John Harshman]], [[Marc Miller]], {{CT}} ''[[Trillion Credit Squadron]]'', ([[Game Designers Workshop]], 1981), pgs. 13-14.
|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]] 
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