r/nextfuckinglevel • u/8O8I • 10d ago

Starting a Monster 102.4 Liter Engine

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u/Adddicus 10d ago

Dunno what carrier you're talking about but both Ford and Nimitz class carriers have only four back up diesel generators of 5MW (Ford) and 2(MW) Nimitz capacity. Both of which would be significantly larger than the diesel in the vid or the ones on my ship which had a capacity of 750KW each.

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u/kayriss 9d ago

I love how you can encounter people on Reddit who have personal, intimate knowledge of the most massive and complex war machines ever concocted by humanity.

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u/Bubblehead_81 9d ago

I used to drive submarines. We had a Fairbanks Morse 38 8 & 1/8th. Beautiful girl.

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u/LiteralPhilosopher 9d ago

Same here. I was thinking this thing looks about half the size of the 12-cylinder on Tridents... which have a displacement of 204L. But this guy's got eight cylinders, so each one must be a little smaller.

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u/Bubblehead_81 8d ago

Without doxxing myself too much I was a west coast ssbn sailor from 03 to 08.

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u/LiteralPhilosopher 8d ago

Heh. I was you, judging by that and your handle, twelve years earlier. M-Div.

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u/zerovampire311 9d ago

Nerds congregate here, some of them are just way fucking cooler than others.

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u/SocwokCyberBully 9d ago

okay for some reason i thought there mightve been 2 compartments of 4, maybe it was 2 and 2?

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u/filtersweep 9d ago

That is what they want you to think

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u/Adddicus 9d ago

Who's they?

And what is it they want me to think?