It used to be a hospital
So they had the 73k square foot building backed by this bad boy:
27 Liter, Cat 3412 V12 Diesel with a 380kW gen set. 540hp at 2100RPM, thats 1350 lbs of torque, baby.
Sadly, after I'm done with the electrical design this sucker will no longer have much purpose. No Operating Rooms to keep online, no lights to feed (they are going to battery packs)... just a few boiler igniters, the battery charger and block heater (although, erm, those aren't needed while its running...), the fire alarm control panel, and one elevator.
I guess someone could run a massive data farm up in that piece if they wanted... Don't remember the numbers offhand but I think hospitals have to keep something like 24 hours of fuel on hand. At roughly 10gph (going by the 1gph/50hp rule-of-thumb) I'd think they would have more.
27 Liter, Cat 3412 V12 Diesel with a 380kW gen set. 540hp at 2100RPM, thats 1350 lbs of torque, baby.
Sadly, after I'm done with the electrical design this sucker will no longer have much purpose. No Operating Rooms to keep online, no lights to feed (they are going to battery packs)... just a few boiler igniters, the battery charger and block heater (although, erm, those aren't needed while its running...), the fire alarm control panel, and one elevator.
I guess someone could run a massive data farm up in that piece if they wanted... Don't remember the numbers offhand but I think hospitals have to keep something like 24 hours of fuel on hand. At roughly 10gph (going by the 1gph/50hp rule-of-thumb) I'd think they would have more.
posted by james at 3/18/2008 09:55:00 PM
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Yeah, usually hospitals and other facilities with blackout gensets keep about a week's worth of fuel. Some places keep even more, like nuclear power plants. Their diesels are in the 3-10 megawatt range and they usually keep at least 100,000 gallons of fuel on site per generator.
It's be sweet to buy that thing off of the hospital people. See if they can cut you a deal. Then mod it to run on fryer grease and sell juice back to the grid. Your own private power plant.
yeah they are gonna keep it. Just in case I guess.
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