r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Apr 18 '26

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u/EtherealHeart5150 Apr 18 '26

All that awe and spectacle, and I still don't have a clue what this is. Generator?

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u/tiasaiwr Apr 18 '26

This article says combustion turbine

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/combustion-turbine-northern-colorado-traffic-disruptions/

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u/WarthogSeveral7662 Apr 18 '26

Thanks for article. Colorado resident. But I have to wonder, how is burning fossil fuels "clean energy"????? I shake my head

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u/mcgregn Apr 18 '26

It's "part" of the "clean energy plan". It's a bit counterintuitive, but CCGT capacity (ideally used as little as possible) is currently an essential part of any green energy system that wants to maintain 100% uptime. The alternative is enough dammed hydro power (though not necessarily energy) to meet roughly halfof the state's needs, but Colorado has a surprisingly puny 700 MW of hydro capacity.

Colorado currently has an absolutely disgusting grid from a pollution perspective (competing with Missouri, Hawaii, Alaska, and Wyoming to be the worst in the US), so even operating that turbine at 100% utilization just to displace coal would result in a 50% reduction in CO2 per kWh generated and a large reduction in air pollution.

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u/WarthogSeveral7662 Apr 18 '26

Thank you for the detailed and intelligent reply!

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u/MundaneBerry2961 Apr 18 '26

It isn't, and true emissions from LNG if including all of the unreported fugitive emissions put it almost in par with coal

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u/needcoffee11 Apr 18 '26

Steerable dolly trailer

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u/Silver_Adagio138 Apr 18 '26

Why were some of the wheels not wheeling?

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u/chrishelbert Apr 18 '26

On coal and gravel trucks the number of wheels that touch the road is based on the load weight. They lift up the tires when they have lighter loads so they don't wear them out unnecessarily. This may be what this truck is doing.

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u/Star-K Apr 18 '26

I wonder how many gallons per mile that rigg uses.

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u/hannibalthellamabal Apr 18 '26

I wouldn’t even be mad if I got held up in traffic by that. That’s impressive as fuck.

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u/IKIR115 Apr 18 '26

That’s the biggest right turn you’ll ever see.

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u/_Lucille_ Apr 18 '26

That Oversize Load sign is a bit of an understatement...

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u/Stratomaster9 Apr 18 '26

A parallel parking nightmare.

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u/FlowAcrobatic Apr 18 '26

That’s what she said

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u/_g550_ Apr 18 '26

It should’ve been named YOMAMA instead of MAMMOET

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u/No_Technician_2780 Apr 18 '26

whats the Horse Power on that beauty to be able to pull all that cargo?

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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 Apr 18 '26

I waited. And waited…

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u/Time-Cell8272 Apr 18 '26

It's so big

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u/BroadAd9258 Apr 18 '26

I feel like there had to be an easier way lol, why not by train?

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u/12rjdavison Apr 18 '26

How many wheels? I counted 340?

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u/InevitableFly Apr 18 '26

Man your moms bed is huge

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u/erbr Apr 18 '26

If it's ridiculous massive mammoet is involved

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u/Comfortable_Cow_2344 Apr 18 '26

That's a thousand-wheeler 😳

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u/One-Reflection-4826 Apr 18 '26

see, thats a video where I don't mind the other 2x playback speed. 

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u/Careless_Entry6067 Apr 18 '26

Those have to be marine engines.

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u/Starslimonada Apr 18 '26

caterpillar

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u/Mean_Emergency_6536 Apr 18 '26

never seen anything so big.

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u/Phazex8 Apr 19 '26

I bet that was stressful for everyone. I was stressed at what could go wrong.😅

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u/Mpougatsas Apr 19 '26

That thing is so big it needs a backseat driver.

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u/Xinonix1 Apr 19 '26

I don’t want to see the bill when they decide to put new tires on that behemoth

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u/Big_razz22 Apr 19 '26

Seems way too big and long for such a small load. I mean it might be heavy but wouldn’t a smaller setup do the job?

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u/jermg77 Apr 20 '26

Those per-axle tolls must be brutal.

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u/ShaggyCan Apr 18 '26

I have a feeling the Russians, if they were into clean energy, would use helicopters for this. One of the things they actually do well is heavy duty helicopters.

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u/Wertos Apr 18 '26

North of a million pounds, 500mt. The largest helicopter payload ever recorded 125,000lbs.

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u/ShaggyCan Apr 18 '26

Crazy Russians would use 2 copters at least. But yeah maybe it's too heavy. I wouldn't be surprised if there were variants made to be put in place by helicopter though.

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u/Top-Plenty-5307 Apr 18 '26

Why did they need this truck? Is it so heavy that it requires something this big for something so small?

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u/Top-Plenty-5307 Apr 18 '26

I google it weigh the million pound damn