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The World's Most Powerful Diesel Engine

Posted by kdawson on from the zero-to-sixty-eventually dept.

trex279 writes "The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the world's most powerful diesel engine built to date. Each cylinder displaces a whopping 111,143 cubic inches (1,820 liters, equivalent to a cube 4 feet on a side) and produces 7,780 horsepower. The engine is about the size of a small building." The engine is intended for use in container ships.

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  1. The real question is... by PurifyYourMind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...will the web server for this site need to be running one to survive the slashdot effect? ;-)

  2. Re:I wonder if it will fit by udderly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right...I wonder if I could be any stupider. Is "stupider" a word? Maybe I should have said "more stupid."

  3. Re:That kind of efficiency is impossible by Sectrish · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Conversion of heat into any other type of energy achieves it's maximum at 33% (the other 66% heats up the environment, according to the Laws of Thermodynamics). Arguably, these laws have not been proven, and they can't ever be proven. But they have been unchanged for quite some time now. A breakthrough like this would not go unnoticed and thanks to my thermodynamics professor I would be the first one to hear about it (he's a nut about engines). So I think that part of the article is something someone tried to spike in to give the engine more of a wow-factor