![]() ![]() ![]() “The key for us there was to maintain highest possible power density. It’s not just saying, we’ve got this big diesel motor, let’s just make a big electric motor it’s what’s the right-size electric motor to use, what’s got tens of millions of hours of run time on it, reliability, robust supply chain. To design it from the bottom up, how do you make something so smart that it’s more reliable than existing fleets? And part of that is components you use. “So, it’s hard to do, and we’ve worked on ours for quite some time. They’re just not good matches for what everyone’s been using them for. But when you scale them down, have a variable load, and also some idle time, you start to lose the thermal efficiency. ![]() “And these machines are awesome for long-haul airlines, they’re just fantastic. “Look, I love combined cycle natural gas turbines as machines for grid-scale electricity production,” he said. Wright said it involves much more than thinking you can just build a natural gas-powered generator that’s the same size as one powered by diesel. Obviously, developing such a fleet to meet those parameters has been a complex and difficult process. ![]()
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