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Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: blarneyman on March 21, 2006, 04:39:41 PM

Try working with electricity!
746 watts = 1HP
The average electrical service at a grocery store has the potetial to create 24,600HP in a fault situation. That's about equal to 4 top fuel dragsters at full throttle. :ph34r:

Sorry, just spent half my day in a class on Arc flash protection and safety :wacko:  

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: silas on March 21, 2006, 07:40:20 PM

so all you have to do is figure out how to harness that electrical energy and turn it into mechanical energy.

so, you turn the pop cooler into a huge combustion chamber and fill it with gas, using a paper mache piston made out of the nudie mags, use the donairs as a connecting rod, that will attach to your squishy machine crankshaft, which is joined by the $1 slice large pizza to the transmission made out of lottery tickets, and that drives the flourescent bulb drive shaft that turns your day old $.50 slice large pizza wheels....and bam. you're there.  :wacko:  

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: Chris on March 21, 2006, 07:45:36 PM

That and a $1 will get you locked up in a sanitarium!

When it comes to power they do say \"look up and live\" but what about that open manhole? What open manhole you say?

 

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: Klaatu on March 22, 2006, 09:39:45 AM

Hey Chris, I hear your Man-hole is always open........LoLoLo       :o  :lol:  

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: slammedbus on March 22, 2006, 09:50:53 AM

Apparently the power curve on electric motors is flat as well. Constant hp.......I still think electric cars are meant for children.

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: Cameron on March 22, 2006, 11:06:45 AM

Hey Blarneyman!

Some ideas for all your \"horsepower\".

Check out ] http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/volkswagen.html (http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/volkswagen.html)

Title: You Think You Have Horsepower!
Post by: buddy boy on March 23, 2006, 02:29:49 AM

all this is old news,...... it's called a flux capacitor.