Recently Detroit Water & Waste Management announced the installation of about eight large generators run by disel. Does anyone know how much disel fuel is needed to keep a generator running for a 24 hour period. Does anyone know anymore about Detroit utilities? If you read the second Navy Report, Detroit was not supposed to be ready in water, waste and electricity.

-- Ruth Edwards (REath29646@aol.com), December 05, 1999

Answers

Ruth, what is disel? Never heard of it before.

-- wert (wert@poiu.com), December 05, 1999.

Maybe it should be "diesel", perhaps?

(Gawd!)

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 05, 1999.

Wert, I have no idea what disel is! I also have no idea how I managed to post the question three times. I think I am having a bad day. Thanks for your kindness!

-- Ruth Edwards (REath29646@aol.com), December 05, 1999.

Ruth,

Detroit, huh? Do you have any other options? I'm poor and stuck in the suburbs in Virginia, so I'm not pointing a finger. But Detroit is probably the last place I would wanna be, unless I had some quality independent heat, et al, and could stay under a pile of blankets in my home for quite some time. It's too dang cold for my bones.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 05, 1999.

Ruth,

My 40kw Cat drinks 1 1/2 - 2 gal/hr under various loads. It's ancient. The newer ones may be more efficient. It all depends on how much juice they put out. In order to run a water & waste mgmt facility, I would imagine these gennys would be much larger than my 40kw unit!

Cmdr Don

-- Cmdr Don (cmdrdon@mad.scientist.com), December 06, 1999.