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On Monday, 2 March 2020 17:38:28 UTC, charles wrote:
In your universe, perhaps.In article
, harry
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On Monday, 2 March 2020 14:23:02 UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 28/02/2020 00:24, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Steve Walker
wrote:
The alternators are far bigger than anything needed for an electric
fan - on my previous car, it could drive a 1kW electric heater to
speed up heating of the car, as the highly efficient diesel was too
slow to warm up in the winter!

Why not an aux diesel burning heater? Far better than a puny 1kW.

BTW, 1kW is only just over 1 BHP. Some fans take more than that.


0.476Kw = 1HP


In your universe, perhaps. On Earth it 748 watts to 1 horsepower.


`Is that so ****-fer-brains?
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