Hydrocarbon Fuel Cells for 3e

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Those engines are _huge_ both in weight and output. 4 MW is more than 5000 horsepower.

Just for real-world scale:

Actual HMMWV engine: 0.15 MW
M1A2 powerplant: 1.12 MW

So a 4MW power plant is enough to drive more than three M1A2 MBTs, each of which masses over 62 tons.

https://www.siemens-energy.com/globa...s/sgt-100.html

This is a 5-ish MW gas turbine by Siemens.

https://www.siemens-energy.com/globa...s/sgt-100.html

it masses 27 tons by itself.