no, he's right. Gasoline engines need spark, but diesels don't. I think you can safely chalk up the lack of diesels to the fact that the diesel fuel supply would have gone away pretty quick unless someone started refining new stuff. And then we have to forget about how there was still jet A available to run the helicopters and it was still good. Hell, maybe Jet fuel has a in infinite shelf life, I wouldn't know, I don't know shit about it. Atlanta had steam powered busses. So apparently, 15 years is just barely long enough for smart people to get together and start reinventing this shit.
I call him AA-ron and ITS GLANDULAR!
ok, sounds reasonable enough. Is this the only part about them being "inconsistent" with what from the modern era doesn't work anymore? I guess this is the "watch at work because free time is too valuable" kind of show, like walking dead.
Well, like they don't explain why electricity in the body still works, for example. The rest of the inconsistencies were resolved pretty well if you believe their techno-babble, no one here guessed it was based off of nano-machines, which is why we found it to be bullshit (We were guessing EMP's, magnetic shifts ect--which couldn't explain most of it.). Their whole explanation though was probably the only refreshing part of the show, because if you could swallow how advanced these nanomachiens are (Which is bullshit in itself, but if you can)? Then you can believe most of what happened, because of how they explain their computing power is "cloud" based and there are googles of them (So in that sense, you can fill your own sci-fi technobabble in to say that they are programmed to not block electrical fields in living organisms).
Basically. The Nanomachines copy themselves and absorb/store electricity. They can also delivery electricity--which is what those little lockets are. Essentially the machines are capable of just about anything if you can write a powerful enough algorithm to control them. The lockets, for example, are little computers with programs which can tell how much power something needs, and deliver it with the stored power in the machines. Currently however, they are controlled by a giant computer in a big bunker, which directs them on absorbing any electricity that gets propagated in the world (Supposedly outside of living organisms.)
No, in reality most diesels don't need glow plugs unless it's very cold. What you need is compression. Some engines don't even have glow plugs, instead they have intake air warmers or engine block heaters, just in case it gets really cold. I'm sure you can think of ways to warm the intake air or engine block without electricity. Like, for instance putting the engine anywhere in the south.