Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.

On 5/17/2025 5:39 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

This doesn't happen in aircraft.

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The ambient noise level in an aeroplane is much higher than in a house

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on a quiet night. (Also, look up Fletcher-Munson curves to see why 600
c/s would be a lot worse than 50 or 60 c/s.)
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Alternators for 600 c/s are feasible at a few kW in aircraft but they

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are difficult to scale up to power station size.

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A modern large aircraft may have close to a megawatt of generation capacity.

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That seems too paltry.
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Propulsion is 190 Megawatts.  In earlier ships, this would be all
steam and mechanical.
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 Later ships are increasingly electric, to support modern things like
big radars, electromagnetic launch systems, lasers, railguns, and so
on.