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Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: flakbait on February 21, 2001, 12:58:00 PM

For the technical nuts among us here's what one horsepower actually means:

One horsepower = 550 ft-lbs/sec

So an engine that develops 2,000 horsepower is doing about 110,000 ft-lbs/sec of work. Gives you a whole new appreciation of horses, don't it?


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Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: RAM on February 21, 2001, 01:00:00 PM

I like sheep more  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Is there a sheeppower measurement? I'd love to see it

  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 02-21-2001).]

Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: wells on February 21, 2001, 04:30:00 PM

hehe RAM,

Sheep are negative HP, they drain the anti-gravity matter from the UFO's...

Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: Staga on February 21, 2001, 04:48:00 PM

Our largest technical-magazine made a decision to drop horsepowers from their charts and start using only kilowatts. In last issue they still used HP's they checked how much power a Finnish-Horse (Local work-horse) can give out. If remember right the answer was something like 25 or 26HPs in short time  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: Jimdandy on February 21, 2001, 05:04:00 PM

Here's a good explanation of the horsepower:
 http://www.howstuffworks.com/horsepower.htm (http://www.howstuffworks.com/horsepower.htm)

[This message has been edited by Jimdandy (edited 02-21-2001).]

Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: Frosty1 on February 21, 2001, 05:53:00 PM

 

Quote

Originally posted by RAM:
I like sheep more   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Is there a sheeppower measurement? I'd love to see it

   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 02-21-2001).]

LOL! Great stuff!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)


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Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: TheWobble on February 21, 2001, 06:27:00 PM

sheep power would prolly be a refrence to friction if ya get my drift  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Probably useless, but....
Post by: Widewing on February 21, 2001, 07:04:00 PM

 

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Originally posted by RAM:
I like sheep more   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Yeah, I heard that about you........ (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/eek.gif)

My regards,

Widewing