Talk:Electrocuting a Whale/@comment-16533050-20141123045225

I never quite understood the point behind this... The machine to run this device is being powered by whale oil tanks. Whale oil tanks contain... well, whale oil that has gone through the refinement process.

Now, the whole effect of this is to generate... more raw unrefined whale oil?

That doesn't make sense. You use refined whale oil to generate unrefined whale oil. Does the potential gain somehow outweigh the cost?

The excess raw whale oil gets generated by this machine... which then has to be gathered and contained... shipped to a refinement facility, and subsequently refined there... then contained or packaged in those large tanks which are then sent out/shipped to areas that have those Whale Oil Canisters (such as those dispensers found in Piero's workshop and the Rothwild Slaughterhouse Yard).

That seems like a lot of cost and effort.

Besides this, the machine had to be researched and built/constructed... will require workers to operate it, as well as maintain it and said workers had to be educated in the operation and maintenance of this device (as I don't see Sokolov somehow deciding to personally oversee this device forever). Also, refined whale oil has to be used... which consequently needs to be shipped TO the Slaughterhouse in the first place and stored for use. Not only this, but the machinery takes up space that could be used for other things.

To me... logistically... this seems like a financial money pit, and a waste of time, effort, AND coin.

Finally, an inherent flaw is discovered in this wondrous machine (the use of both tanks extinguishing the life force of the whale), and instead of fixing said flaw, there is merely a warning written here? Why is this not fixed? To save time, effort, and coin?

Anyone else?