Horsepower.....something to think about

[Dubld]

View attachment 94206 I vote for gigawatts! :2thumbs:

1.21 gigawatts, Bob? What the hell is a gigawatt?

 

[Chupaca]

Tough one..!!

it's kind of world wide. I grew up metric and never got used to inches. Again metric is pretty much world wide. It does include engine sizes. But horse power is world wide. Changing it world wide would be tough...I like the vision of 100 horses pulling me along...:roflblack::roflblack:

 

[vided]

My head is starting to hurt :banghead: :yikes:

:clap::agree::agree::agree:

 

[sddinnh]

Knots is also almost universal in american aircraft airspeed indicators and specs. Although some of the older ones read in mph, most of the newer ones read in knots. It would be nice if the whole world could settle on one system of measurement and one language, but I don't see that happening :gaah:

 

[SNOOPY]

The way we are going, we'll all be speaking Chinese or Arabic soon. :shocked:

 

[jcthorne]

1.21 gigawatts, Bob? What the hell is a gigawatt?

1000 megawatts

and before you ask, 1 megawatt is 1000 kilowatts and so on.

So 1 gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts (1 billion). Not a measurement that is used often outside of hollywood. Even the largest power plants are in the 1500 megawatt range and no one calls them 1.5 gigawatts.

While we are on the subject of units, yes the whole world did the conversion some years ago but other than Soviet bloc nations, very few were able to do so completely. The UK and much of Europe still measure process piping and instrument tubing in inch sizes, Pressure ratings in ANSI or API psi rating classes, oil in barrels and much of the world still uses HP for engine power.

Here is a trivia question: How many gallons in a barrel? Trick question.......

 

[Oldmanzues]

1000 megawatts

and before you ask, 1 megawatt is 1000 kilowatts and so on.

So 1 gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts (1 billion). Not a measurement that is used often outside of hollywood. Even the largest power plants are in the 1500 megawatt range and no one calls them 1.5 gigawatts.

While we are on the subject of units, yes the whole world did the conversion some years ago but other than Soviet bloc nations, very few were able to do so completely. The UK and much of Europe still measure process piping and instrument tubing in inch sizes, Pressure ratings in ANSI or API psi rating classes, oil in barrels and much of the world still uses HP for engine power.

Here is a trivia question: How many gallons in a barrel? Trick question.......

What are you measuring ? Oil I think is measured in 42 gal barrels, other stuff in 50 gal barrels.
Oldmanzues

 

[Bob Denman]

1000 megawatts

and before you ask, 1 megawatt is 1000 kilowatts and so on.

So 1 gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts (1 billion). Not a measurement that is used often outside of hollywood. Even the largest power plants are in the 1500 megawatt range and no one calls them 1.5 gigawatts.

While we are on the subject of units, yes the whole world did the conversion some years ago but other than Soviet bloc nations, very few were able to do so completely. The UK and much of Europe still measure process piping and instrument tubing in inch sizes, Pressure ratings in ANSI or API psi rating classes, oil in barrels and much of the world still uses HP for engine power.

Here is a trivia question: How many gallons in a barrel? Trick question.......

 

[The Bakerman]

one gallon = .0317 barrels according to a conversion app that I have on my phone...unless you're talking about barrels of oil..that would be .0238

 

[jcthorne]

A barrel of oil or oil products is 42 US gallons
A drum is 55 US gallons
A barrel of beer, wine, liqueur or other consumables is 31.5 US gallons
A barrel of dry goods such as grain, apples etc is 26.25 US gallons

And in case anyone wanted to know, a barrel of oil produces approx 19 US gallons of gasoline (and other petro products).

 

[vided]

PLEASE STOP my head just exploded, and i'm not cleaning it up :yikes::yikes::banghead:

 

[scrutineer]

View attachment 94206 I vote for gigawatts! :2thumbs:

1.21 gigawatts!!!

 

[JkRbbt]

I just can't imagine some dude in a hopped up Pony car bragging about how many KILOWATTS he has under the hood!

 

[cptjam]

1.21 Gigawatts

Power requirements for the flux capacitor, of course.

 

[Bob Denman]

I just can't imagine some dude in a hopped up Pony car bragging about how many KILOWATTS he has under the hood!

"Newton-Meters", doesn't do anyting for me either! :shocked: