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)

The wording is a little odd, but the basic idea sounds just like "artificially-generated substitutes created from other local energy sources" (wording taken from our Energon article). --Khajidha 14:27, 4 August 2013 (EDT)

Isn't all the fuel the Transformers use in the first dozen-or-so Marvel issues converted gasoline? They don't have anywhere else to get non-earth-converted fuel from. Frankly, I sort of look at this article existing separate from energon as willful dissonance anyway. - Chris McFeely 14:47, 4 August 2013 (EDT)

Yeah, I'm with McFeely here. This is yet another instance of ridiculous pedantry getting in the way of presenting information. --M Sipher 14:56, 4 August 2013 (EDT)