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They do. Natural Gas fueled generators are practical at 50MW capacity. GE basically sells a 747 engine (CF6) driving a generator, known as the LMS6000 [0] http
by neurotech1 11y ago
They do. Natural Gas fueled generators are practical at 50MW capacity. GE basically sells a 747 engine (CF6) driving a generator, known as the LMS6000
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000
[1] http://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm6000/ http://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm6000/
- mpnordland 11y agoThat's probably the most awesome thing I've heard tonight.
- burger_moon 11y agoI understand that gas turbines can produce that kind of power, in fact I used to work on some pretty large turbines and turbo generators in the 500-1000MW range. However they aren't used as backup generators where they have to be online in a minute. These are the types of generators I was referring to, https://powergen.gepower.com/products/reciprocating-engines/waukesha-vhp.html https://powergen.gepower.com/products/reciprocating-engines/...
- techdragon 11y agoMore batteries to get over the slower generator startup time, and likely quite a few smaller generators to do the best they can to keep the batteries going if the big generator is slower than expected to startup that day.
- ajaimk 11y agoThat is cool. Wonder what the efficiency of one of those will be.
- iSnow 11y ago40%, it's in the linked Wikipedia article.