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Yeah, let's think about that. In this video[0] of an open-pit mine, Sempertrans claims their conveyors move 6 meters per second,and elsewhere[1] they claim to
by gavmor 2y ago
Yeah, let's think about that.
In this video[0] of an open-pit mine, Sempertrans claims their conveyors move 6 meters per second,and elsewhere[1] they claim to move 18,000 tons an hour, ie 5 tons per second—just under 1 ton per meter of belt? It must be pretty dense, something like ~800kg/m^2? That checks out for cubes of lignite.
So only 198,000 such conveyors are needed in world.
0. https://youtu.be/b0JqGy-rs2I https://youtu.be/b0JqGy-rs2I
1. https://easyengineering.eu/interview-with-sempertrans/ https://easyengineering.eu/interview-with-sempertrans/
- its_ethan 2y agoNot sure what math gets you to 198,000 belts needed? If this belt can do 5 tons per second, that's 10,000 lbs per second per belt So to reach 1,000,000 lbs/s globally, you would do: 1,000,000 lbs/s divided by 10,000 lbs/s/belt = 100 belts No?
- gavmor 2y agoMakes sense. Can't tell you what I was thinking, since the cache has cleared. ;)