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Originally Posted by Superman
Cool engines, Sammy.
As part of my work, I visited Siemens' project of rebuilding generators at Grand Coulee Dam. 805 Megawatts each. I asked how much power that is and was told one of these generators would power a city like Seattle or Portland. Two would be necessary to energize Los Angeles. I was in a room with five of these behemoths:
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Awesome pics and machines, thanks. I'd love to get a tour of that place. Lots o'water must flow through one to make that much power.
I worked on a hydro generator in central Ca. a gazillion years ago, (might have been china lake?) but it was small compared to one of those.
IIRC a KW was around 1.4 hp, so a MW would be 1400 hp.
805 MW is somewhere's in the 1,127,000 hp range.
That's prertty darn close in HP to one of the steam turbines at san onofre nuke plant. Biggest thing I ever worked on. Took 120 of us millwrights 3 months to overhaul the darned thing.
One more of them 1932 engines:
