Talk:Transformer fuel

IDW

"Transformer fuel" in this article is about a specific substance, distinct from energon, that was just called "fuel" in the Marvel Comic. I'm not sure if it is appropriate for the IDW continuity to have a section here. I know from this panel that it has been revealed that Transformers have fuel pumps. I also know that the issue summary for Rules of Disengagement describes fuel being salvaged from Transformer corpses. That sounds like Transformers run on some kind of "fuel" similar to the Marvel comics. But way back in Escalation it was revealed that Transformers use Energon or Energon substitutes. I'll let someone else sort it out since I don't follow the comics closely, but I would suggest that if the idea that Transformers run on Energon still applies and Fulcrum's fuel pump is just pumping liquid Energon, then I wouldn't think the IDW continuity needs a section at all in this article. - Starfield 17:33, 13 June 2013 (EDT)

Conversion process and artificial energon

The current note, "...Given that the fuel described here required a conversion process before it was useable, it's not hard to retroactively imagine it was an artificial energon." is incorrect. The fuel described here did not require a conversion process before it was usable. Gasoline required a conversion process to make it usable by Transformers. Gasoline was converted to Transformer fuel. So it doesn't make sense to retroactively imagine Transformer fuel as artificial energon. I suppose someone could imagine this fuel as being regular-old energon, except they also had Energon Cubes, which was treated as a different thing. - Starfield 13:52, 4 August 2013 (EDT)