For those who live on farms that have oil wells on them, should one be building a makeshift distillation tower to refine your own gas from the oil, because the energy company is probably not going to be able to get to the gas after all their trucks fail...
Just curious on this because I have family members who live on farms with oil wells on them and if this sorta collapse were to happen the wells would be fine as the well motors run on waste gas and use simple electronics that are EMP resistant.
Couldn’t a distillation tower be made out of a vertical pipe with several outlets at different heights?
Would be useful maybe to making your own fuel to power tractors and simple farm machinery....
If I had an oil well, I wouldn’t build a distillation tower BECAUSE the waste products are incredibly toxic.
It just so happens my family owns acreage over the Monterey oil shale in California. There is an old natural gas well on the property. We’re looking into fracking those parcels. If we get oil, so be it. If it’s natural gas, it can be used straight from the well (I believe).
If I am wrong, don’t hesitate to correct my mistakes.
Short answer, yes, you can distill your own gasoline. People were doing this a hundred and fifty years ago, no electronics, no precision industrial controllers, no catalytic cracking, etc. etc. etc.
Not anywhere near as efficient as a modern refinery, but plenty good enough to keep a farm running.