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It is about 1 megawatt (1341 HP) of the power pushing the rocket into the sky (directly translated into exhaust velocity and therefore thrust). That would be li
by DarmokJalad1701 2y ago
It is about 1 megawatt (1341 HP) of the power pushing the rocket into the sky (directly translated into exhaust velocity and therefore thrust). That would be like a spark plug generating 1 HP in a 300 HP engine (Which would exhaust the typical car battery in about 1 second if it could even push that much power out).
It is all semantics anyway.
- DarmokJalad1701 2y agoCorrection: It won't drain in a second. But my point is the same. We don't really have 1 HP spark plugs out there :)
- ben_w 2y agoRough estimates I've seen say the starter motor is about that, though. (Not that I can tell real pages from GenAI ad content farms, I'm not a petrolhead). I'd agree "it's all semantics", but yours are confusing me :P (And for energy content, like for like is comparing the size of the fuel tank with the capacity of the battery, but cars aren't 90% fuel by weight).