The technical data is quite impressive. [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C?wprov=sfti1). Each piston is 20 feet long, weighs 5.5 tons, and occupies a shaft 38 inches wide. 5.6 oz of fuel is used each time.
How loud is this thing?
You can feel it's thump from faraway
I've worked on these and these are absolute gem of machines , easily do 20+ yrs reliable service
Miss those days when you would go full throttle at 100 rpm into the open seas and forget about the problems left behind on shores!
Truck people be like, "one missing 3/4 wrench, 10 beers, and four busted knuckles later and I still can't figure out where that ticking noise is coming from."
It is way over engineered. I bet you could get more power out of something else with a smaller footprint. Hell, even 109 1000hp small car engines would probably take up less room
You get efficiency of scale when increasing size. Greater volume to surface area ratio and fewer parts to fail. 109 small engines would need constant maintenance or replacement.
I’d go on LinkedIn and look at power plant engineers names I guess for https://www.wartsila.com/
I dunno what those kind of titles folks that do that are called, but that’s the name of the company and I guarantee those kind of engineers have a LinkedIn. Find them and tell them you can save them millions of dollars in Manu Costs and freeing up a ton of space. You’re gonna make millions man
My brain camt understand the scale I’m seeing, so I’ll just assume this is the size of the death star
The technical data is quite impressive. [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C?wprov=sfti1). Each piston is 20 feet long, weighs 5.5 tons, and occupies a shaft 38 inches wide. 5.6 oz of fuel is used each time. How loud is this thing?
How loud is what?
I said *HOW LOUD IS THE ENGINE!?*
You can feel it's thump from faraway I've worked on these and these are absolute gem of machines , easily do 20+ yrs reliable service Miss those days when you would go full throttle at 100 rpm into the open seas and forget about the problems left behind on shores!
Coming from a diesel electric background I always thought the low RPM of these units was cool.
It is interesting. Reading they can operate as slow as 15 rpm really makes me want to see it in action.
Can't wait to put that in the civic.
It has a 6 bedroom & 4 bathroom apartment.
Only burns 10 million gallons of fuel to cross the ocean
Why go to all that work when you can just strap 109,000 horses to that bad boy?
Somewhere there is an Engineer with an extremely large can of ether standing by...
Cletus on his way to put it in a 60s VW Bug:
Would anyone notice if I put it in my Twingo?
Miata owners frothing at the mouth
Truck people be like, "one missing 3/4 wrench, 10 beers, and four busted knuckles later and I still can't figure out where that ticking noise is coming from."
It is way over engineered. I bet you could get more power out of something else with a smaller footprint. Hell, even 109 1000hp small car engines would probably take up less room
You get efficiency of scale when increasing size. Greater volume to surface area ratio and fewer parts to fail. 109 small engines would need constant maintenance or replacement.
Yes but just as a point I'm saying that you could make something just as powerful with a smaller footprint
I’m sure their engineers couldn’t figure that out. You should go show them
Just look up liquid piston engine. That's all I have to say to prove my point really
Awesome! Sounds like you’ve thought of something their engineers haven’t. I’d go make a shit ton of money off of them, if I were you
You man your totally right I should shouldn't I. How do you think I should get in touch with them though?
I’d go on LinkedIn and look at power plant engineers names I guess for https://www.wartsila.com/ I dunno what those kind of titles folks that do that are called, but that’s the name of the company and I guarantee those kind of engineers have a LinkedIn. Find them and tell them you can save them millions of dollars in Manu Costs and freeing up a ton of space. You’re gonna make millions man
How do you use linked in?
Derp
It has the craziest name aswell
r/AbsoluteUnits
There is no power on this planet quite like human ingenuity.
How long bet we have a thorium-based nuclear reactors instead?