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That's utterly insane. 32 million horsepower is ~24 gigawatts. That's roughly the same power as ALL OF CALIFORNIA.


Well, if all of California's energy were produced by petrol (~13.1kWh/kg), it would consume about 900l per second. The F1 burns about 920l of RP1 fuel per second. And it has to bring its own oxidizer along for the ride.


It is useful to add that the tradeoff is that the engines are running for far less time than, well, California. It's still an incredible feat of engineering to pull off those kinds of energy densities though.


What I'm hearing is that California needs to step it's game up.


Wait till you learn about the power of femtosecond laser pulses...




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