55,000 HP engine pull.

[Henry66]

80,000 lbs. thrust. Made in USA. Runs on natural gas, makes electricity. The blue tinge is from the heat.

[Broncrick]

Re: 55,000 HP engine pull.

:boing:

[slvregl]

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I don't think I can fit that between the frame rails

[14Justice]

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Wonder what the cost of that bugger is? Thanks for sharing Henry

[crawlin68]

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That's pretty cool. I'm guessing it burns cleaner than a coal plant?

[SonicDonkey]

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Love turbines. I need to make time to learn more about them.

[earlybronco72]

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That's pretty cool. I'm guessing it burns cleaner than a coal plant?

Cleaner than coal, but not cleaner than nuke.

[Muddy]

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You post up some neat pics. What do you do?

[Henry66]

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I am an archaeologist specializing in construction monitoring. They dig, I watch. (And take lots of pictures.)

[Spaceburger]

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I am an archaeologist specializing in construction monitoring. They dig, I watch. (And take lots of pictures.)

interesting, I can imagine the conversation:
Worker: “Stop! Stop!.. there’s a skull in the dirt, stop digging.”
Henry66: “Yup that’s a skull alright….human…old”
Worker: “How old?
Henry66: “ mid 1800’s for sure..”
Worker: “Should we shut down the job? Native American? Indian?”
Henry66: “Ah…nope…looks Caucasian.”
Worker: “Whew, OK keep digging!”

[Mcdobson]

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My father in law built the Co-Gen plant in Moss Landing, he took me on a private tour. It was very impressive and considerably bigger than it looks from the hi-way. You can almost walk inside those turbines.

[Henry66]

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Brad> Cost is $8,000,000. 3 to 4 mil for a refurbish. They run them for 50,000 hours or 6 years between pulls.

SpaceBurger> Exactly!