On the plus side, we get to stand farther away than arm's length when we fire up a new piece of equipment. The down side is that whenever the lights go out, you start thinking "Was it something I did?"
I thought that saying "But seriously, that's a cool thing to wind by hand." clearly indicated that I did not hand-wind the transformers that I deal with.
It depends how good your engine is. Per google, (4 (gal / minute)) * (6.5 (pound / gal)) * (0.473 (kg / pound)) * (c^2) = 1.84214853 × 10^16 watts. Or 18 petawatts.
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400 MVA, might lose part of Queens, not the eastern seaboard, that would be on the order of 400 GVA. The US uses a _LOT_ of electric.?-)
Well, you have to drive over the the other pump and fill up the antimatter tank, too.
John
Are you out by a factor of 60 (gal/min, but Watts are Joules/sec)?
Unfortunately the electric networks both in Europe and in the USA are in a pretty bad condition. A single 400 MVA transformer failure can take down a large network.
I few years ago (planned) closure of a river crossing overhead line took down the power from large parts of Germany and France and the power failure taking down the US East coast started with quite minor problems far away.
You can plug the statement into the google search bar and play with it yourself:
4 gal / minute * 6.5 pound / gal * 0.473 kg / pound * c^2It gets the same result for 4/60 gal/sec. I found it marvelous that the search bar is a calculator and seems to handle units correctly.
-- John
I see. My (wrong) assumption was that you had just multiplied all the factors straight through.
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And the great Eastern US cascade blackout was caused by operator error a few years back. Wiped out electric from Chicago to Maine to Norfolk, = etc.
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Right. System stability is a lot better than it used to be, but it's still not an exact science. "Smart meters" could presumably shed loads and avoid chain-reaction shutdowns, but I bet it will take a long time to get that right.
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I got 10.2 megawatts for 3 minutes this morning. =3D) Took 3 minutes
0.03 seconds (haha, my reaction time isn't that great on my cellphone stopwatch, let's just call it 3 minutes) to get 14.062 gallons. Doing a mpg study: Chevron vs. Arco, since a co-worker claims she gets better mileage with Chevron. Why not time it, too. Arco's pump did seem kind of slow, come to think of it.Michael
Do smart meters have contactors large enough to disconnect the load?
Now think about this... could you send 10 MWatts of electricity through a wire the size of the gas hose?
Gasoline really is magic...
Mark
Yeah, cars work great. They're not a problem that needs to be solved.
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LOL! Making butanol fuel (superior to ethanol) from biomass is an interesting challenge. A Mr. Weismann developed the process back in
1918 I believe, so the patent has long since expired. =3D)Michael
We have insane amounts of natural gas and keep finding more. Why not make auto fuel from that? Biomass fuel is really, really expensive.
John
Just a shame that 60-70% of the potentially available power in the fuel is wasted...
Chris.
Some types have been able to control loads since the 1950s.
Regards, Allan
Yep. Hanging on a 115 kV insulator string.
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