365 Days of Drabbles, Day 192

[jeriendhal]

For colliemommie: “Where'd I put my keys?”

Urge... to commit kink... rising...


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She looked up at the... race car? Road train? Race train? “That's... insane.”

“It'll be perfect. Ten independent driver wheels in the control tractor, powered by a 20,000kwh hydrogen generator with 40 kw's worth of solar panels on the roof of the tractor and four fuel trailers. Optimum fuel efficient speed is about 120 kph, which will keep you going for almost a week.

She whistled. “We'll win for sure! Gimmee the ignition card and let me crank her up.”

His expression went blank for a moment. “Ignition card?”

“You did install the starter system, right?”

“Um...”

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Engineering quibbles:

Solar panels shoud be measured in kW, not kWh.

If they are 400 kW (and thus output 400 kWh per hour). and are near 100% efficiency, and sunlight is near earth normal, then you'd need about 400 square meters of panel aimed at the sun. Assume a railcar is 3 m x 20 m, you'd need to add another few cars for crew quarters and media.

(my company makes solar panels)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

mea culpa on mixing up kw vs kwh. And call it 40 sqm instead, used to supplement the electrics to keep most of the power from the engine on the wheel motors.