Wed, 31 Mar 2004
Dieselpunk? In your eye!
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine
is what you get when you make a deisel engine so frickin'
huge that you could use one of its cylinder heads as
a hot tub. The whole thing weighs in at a cool 2300 tons, the
crank-shaft alone weighing a mere 300 tons, and it puts out a
75 megawatts when it's running -- about 108,000 horsepower in
old-fashioned equestrian units. It's not very economical,
gulping about 4000 litres of fuel per hour, but it does
achieve a thermal efficiency of over 50% in maximum economy
mode (putting most power stations to shame).
Yes, it's mobile. They use these suckers to drive container
ships. Big container ships.
If you thought the Victorian age was the age of big
engineering and everything's been going downhill since then,
the guys from Diesel United, Ltd of Japan are probably
laughing at you.
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A very American holiday
Tomorrow is National
"I'm Embarrassed by my President" Day.
[Discuss dumb] (Take this as you will)
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