Mechanical Monstrosities Of Fossil Fuel Extraction

hel Mech anical MONSTROSITIES OSSIT Fnel Extraction O Fossil fuels are BIG business, and the machines we use to extract fossil fuels from the ground are some of the largest on the planet. This infographic will highlight six of these energy powerhouses and illustrate the colossal environmental footprint of each. 01. D575A-3SD World's Biggest and Most Powerful Bulldozer SPECS: This land-shifting, earth-shredding beast was manufactured in Japan and is used to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth. This powerful machine is O Stands 16 FEET TALL, 41 FEET LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE equipped to knock over mountains, that's how strong it is. It is used in strip mining of coal in Northeast America. O The blade weighs over 22,000 LBS AND IS 24 FEET 3 INCHES WIDE AND 11 FEET TALL. O The D575A-3SD weighs 300,000 LBS 150 TONS= APPROXIMATELY O 1150 HP engine = 1,150 horses = 4 CHEVY CORVETTES 18 adult African Savanna Elephants. Chevrolet Cor- vette 400 HP The blade also covers a colossal 90 cubic yards and can shove or pull 480,000 lbs of mass, the equivalent of 32 Tyrannosaurus Rex's. > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The D575A-3SD Bulldozer consumes an average of: This is the equivalent of the yearly fuel usage of more than 440 gallons average of diesel fuel each day cars. OR 160,600 gallons each year. > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The 160,600 gallons of diesel fuel used each year result in roughly 3,565,320 Ibs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. The average tree given this rate, it would take consumes 50 pounds 71,306 trees of CO2 per year one year to offset the annual CO2 emissions of one D575A-3SD 02. LIEBHERR T 282B SPECS: The world's biggest truck is a massive German manufactured Earth-hauling mining O The Liebher T 282B weighs in at dump truck that has the capacity to carry 400 tons at 64 km/h. It is built by hand in Newport News, VA and is powered by a combination diesel/electric engine. 658 TONS = roughly 440 Average sized sedans E O At the time of its launch in 2004, it had the largest payload O The Liebherr T282B measures in at CARRYING CAPACITY 24 FEET TALL in the world and held this prestigious spot until 2008. O The T282B can carry up to O The T282B has a 3,650 HP engine the equivalent of 5 average sized homes weighing 80 tons each. 400 tons or the equivalent of 9 CHEVY CORVETTES 400 HP each > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Liebherr T282B utilizes a 2723-kilowatt diesel engine to power its two electric motors. The Liebherr T282B guzzles 600 TONS OF FUEL in a 12-hour operational day, or 219,000 tons per year. 50 TONS OF diesel fuel per hour which is equivalent to This is the equivalent of the annual fuel consumption of approximately 409 average sized cars. The fuel capacity of the Liebherr T282B is 1,250 gallons, or 456,250 gallons of gas annually if filled up once per day, which is equivalent to > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: O 115 FULL tanks of an average sized Sedan. O The CO2 emissions from a gallon of gasoline equates to 19.4 pounds per gallon. Thus, 1 acre of Rainforest absorbs 12,000 pounds of CO2, thus it would take the Liebherr T282B emits 8,851,250 to absorb the amount of 737 acres CO2 emitted into the atmos- of Rainforest phere annually by the Lieb- herr T282B. pounds of CO2 per year. 03. OVERBURDEN CONVEYOR BRIDGE F6O This piece is considered the world's largest movable technical industrial machine and sadly was laid to rest in 1991 due to energy-political reasons, after being in operation for a mere 13 months. As an overburden conveyor bridge, it transported the overburden which lies over the coal seam. It still exists as a tourist attraction. "The Lying Eiffel Tower" 502 m 320 m SPECS: O The F60 weighs in at 27,000,000 Ibs = O The F60 is 197 feet tall and 20,769 men 1,648 feet long the size of Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man. If the Empire State Building were to collapse on its side, it would be 200 feet shorter than the F60. The F60 can excavate a staggering 100,000 tons of earth per hour This corresponds to the volume of a soccer field with a depth of 26 feet. In order to operate, the 21.424 HOMES > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: bridge requires 27,000 kW of power per hour or 236,520,000 kW per year annual energy usage of AAAAAAAAAA AAnAnnA Annn For each kWH of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 Y is released into the atmosphere, meaning the F60 has a yearly carbon footprint of roughly 153,738 tons of CO2, It would take 3,074 trees an entire year to offset this much CO. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < 04. CLAW (TEREX RH400) 11-38 SPECS: This earth excavating, demolition machine is regarded as the world's largest hydraulic shovel. Its Claw is large enough that it can "devour" a typical crane in one fell swoop. O The Claw itself weighs 2,156,000 lbs. 415 Ford F-150s OR O The RH400 stands at O The RH400 has 4,500 net horsepower the equivalent power of 33 FEET TALL AND 32 FEET WIDE 112 CORVETTES O It can scoop up 9,900 tons of Earth O It only takes between 3 to 5 scoops to entirely fill up 240-400 ton mining trucks and can shovel per hour and holds a world record in its class for this. 94 TONS in one scoop. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The RH400 has a fuel tank that holds 4,226.8 gallons, or the fuel capacity equivalent of 320 2009 Honda Civics. Each time the RH400 uses the fuel in its tank, 93,834 LBS OF CO2 are released into the atmosphere. It would take an entire ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: 1,876 TREES a year to offset this much CO2. 05. "BIG MUSKIE". XXIXIXIXI BIG MUSKIE SPECS: Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It was in operation from 1969-1991, until it was sadly destroyed. Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. O Big Muskie weighed nearly 14,330 tons - Almost 2 U.S. attack submarines (US Virginia attack submarines = 7,800 tons) Capable of removing O She stood at nearly 22 stories tall, or 608,000,000 222.5 FEET TALL, 151.55 FEET WIDE AND 487.5 LONG cubic yards of overburden = 2X amount of earth moved during construction of the Panama Canal. O Her bucket could carry two Greyhound buses side by side. O In her time, she moved more than 483 MILLION TONS OF ROCK AND SOIL O Big Muskie was able to move 39 to uncover the 20,000,000 tons of clean coal underneath. MILLION POUNDS of earth every hour. Energy used by Big Muskie would power This equates to ENERGY CONSUMPTION: 30,360,0000 kWh 27,500 HOMES on an annual scale. For each kWh of electricity used, 1.3 lbs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere, meaning this crowd favorite released 39,4680,000 lbs of C02 into the atmosphere every time it powered up. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < The 10,000 acres of the land stripped and mined by Big Muskie were reclaimed in 1994 and is now called The Wilds, a wildlife preservation. 06. BAGGER 288 SPECS: This is the world's largest digging machine and is a bucket-wheel excavator/ mobile strip miner. It works by churning the top levels of Earth away and digging and dumping in a continuous fashion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in scope. It is manufactured in Germany. O It weighs approximately 22 TONS, OR 380 Blue Whales (the largest animal on the planet). O The maximum speed for the 288 is 1/3 mile per hour. It can dig up to O The Bagger 288 is 984 feet long 33 FEET it would take 6 Olympic sized swimming pools to fill this much space. PER MINUTE HOWEVER. So, what it lacks in travel speed it makes up for in depth. O The Bagger 288 can excavate O It would take 240,000 TONS 40,000 PEOPLE†††I of coal, rock and Earth each day. a day to do the equivalent work of this machine. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externāly supplied electricity. It would take roughly 16 LARGE WIND. | TURBINES f11111tttttttt to provide the electricity required by the Bagger 288. The energy needed by the Bagger 288 is roughly the same as is needed by 16,500 HOMES ******** (1MW per 1,000 Homes). For each kW of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 are released into the atmosphere. This means that 21,528 LBS OF C02 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: are released into the atmosphere every time this machine is turned on. 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Improve the weather inside. hel Mech anical MONSTROSITIES Extraction O Fossil fuels are BIG business, and the machines we use to extract fossil fuels from the ground are some of the largest on the planet. This infographic will highlight six of these energy powerhouses and illustrate the colossal environmental footprint of each. 01. D575A-3SD World's Biggest and Most Powerful Bulldozer SPECS: This land-shifting, earth-shredding beast was manufactured in Japan and is used to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth. This powerful machine is O Stands 16 FEET TALL, 41 FEET LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE equipped to knock over mountains, that's how strong it is. It is used in strip mining of coal in Northeast America. O The blade weighs over 22,000 LBS AND IS 24 FEET 3 INCHES WIDE AND 11 FEET TALL. O The D575A-3SD weighs 300,000 LBS 150 TONS= APPROXIMATELY O 1150 HP engine = 1,150 horses = 4 CHEVY CORVETTES 18 adult African Savanna Elephants. Chevrolet Cor- vette 400 HP The blade also covers a colossal 90 cubic yards and can shove or pull 480,000 lbs of mass, the equivalent of 32 Tyrannosaurus Rex's. > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The D575A-3SD Bulldozer consumes an average of: This is the equivalent of the yearly fuel usage of more than 300 440 gallons average of diesel fuel each day cars. OR 160,600 gallons each year. > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The 160,600 gallons of diesel fuel used each year result in roughly 3,565,320 Ibs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. The average tree given this rate, it would take consumes 50 pounds 71,306 trees of CO2 per year one year to offset the annual CO2 emissions of one D575A-3SD 02. LIEBHERR T 282B SPECS: The world's biggest truck is a massive German manufactured Earth-hauling mining O The Liebher T 282B weighs in at dump truck that has the capacity to carry 400 tons at 64 km/h. It is built by hand in Newport News, VA and is powered by a combination diesel/electric engine. 658 TONS = roughly 440 Average sized sedans E O At the time of its launch in 2004, it had the largest payload O The Liebherr T282B measures in at CARRYING CAPACITY 24 FEET TALL in the world and held this prestigious spot until 2008. O The T282B can carry up to O The T282B has a 3,650 HP engine the equivalent of 5 average sized homes weighing 80 tons each. 400 tons or the equivalent of 9 CHEVY CORVETTES 400 HP еach > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Liebherr T282B utilizes a 2723-kilowatt diesel engine to power its two electric motors. The Liebherr T282B guzzles 600 TONS OF FUEL in a 12-hour operational day, or 219,000 tons per year. 50 TONS OF diesel fuel per hour which is equivalent to This is the equivalent of the annual fuel consumption of approximately 409 average sized cars. The fuel capacity of the Liebherr T282B is 1,250 gallons, or 456,250 gallons of gas annually if filled up once per day, which is equivalent to > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: O 115 FULL tanks of an average sized Sedan. O The CO2 emissions from a gallon of gasoline equates to 19.4 pounds per gallon. Thus, 1 acre of Rainforest absorbs 12,000 pounds of CO2, thus it would take the Liebherr T282B emits 8,851,250 to absorb the amount of 737 acres CO2 emitted into the atmos- of Rainforest phere annually by the Lieb- herr T282B. pounds of CO2 per year. 03. OVERBURDEN CONVEYOR BRIDGE F6O This piece is considered the world's largest movable technical industrial machine and sadly was laid to rest in 1991 due to energy-political reasons, after being in operation for a mere 13 months. As an overburden conveyor bridge, it transported the overburden which lies over the coal seam. It still exists as a tourist attraction. "The Lying Eiffel Tower" 502 m 320 m SPECS: O The F60 weighs in at 27,000,000 Ibs = O The F60 is 197 feet tall and 20,769 men 1,648 feet long the size of Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man. If the Empire State Building were to collapse on its side, it would be 200 feet shorter than the F60. The F60 can excavate a staggering 100,000 tons of earth per hour This corresponds to the volume of a soccer field with a depth of 26 feet. In order to operate, the 21.424 HOMES > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: bridge requires 27,000 kW of power per hour or 236,520,000 kW per year annual energy usage of AAAAAAAAAA For each kWH of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 Y is released into the atmosphere, meaning the F60 has a yearly carbon footprint of roughly 153,738 tons of CO2, It would take 3,074 trees an entire year to offset this much CO. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < 04. CLAW (TEREX RH400) 11-38 SPECS: This earth excavating, demolition machine is regarded as the world's largest hydraulic shovel. Its Claw is large enough that it can "devour" a typical crane in one fell swoop. O The Claw itself weighs 2,156,000 lbs. 415 Ford F-150s OR O The RH400 stands at O The RH400 has 4,500 net horsepower the equivalent power of 33 FEET TALL AND 32 FEET WIDE 112 CORVETTES O It can scoop up 9,900 tons of Earth O It only takes between 3 to 5 scoops to entirely fill up 240-400 ton mining trucks and can shovel per hour and holds a world record in its class for this. 94 TONS in one scoop. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The RH400 has a fuel tank that holds 4,226.8 gallons, or the fuel capacity equivalent of 320 2009 Honda Civics. Each time the RH400 uses the fuel in its tank, 93,834 LBS OF CO2 are released into the atmosphere. It would take an entire ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: 1,876 TREES a year to offset this much CO2. 05. "BIG MUSKIE". XXIXIXIXI AEP BIG MUSKIE SPECS: Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It was in operation from 1969-1991, until it was sadly destroyed. Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. O Big Muskie weighed nearly 14,330 tons - Almost 2 U.S. attack submarines (US Virginia attack submarines = 7,800 tons) Capable of removing O She stood at nearly 22 stories tall, or 608,000,000 222.5 FEET TALL, 151.55 FEET WIDE AND 487.5 LONG cubic yards of overburden = 2X amount of earth moved during construction of the Panama Canal. O Her bucket could carry two Greyhound buses side by side. O In her time, she moved more than 483 MILLION TONS OF ROCK AND SOIL O Big Muskie was able to move 39 to uncover the 20,000,000 tons of clean coal underneath. MILLION POUNDS of earth every hour. Energy used by Big Muskie would power This equates to ENERGY > CONSUMPTION: 30,360,0000 kWh 27,500 HOMES on an annual scale. For each kWh of electricity used, 1.3 lbs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere, meaning this crowd favorite released 39,4680,000 lbs of C02 into the atmosphere every time it powered up. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < The 10,000 acres of the land stripped and mined by Big Muskie were reclaimed in 1994 and is now called The Wilds, a wildlife preservation. 06. BAGGER 288 SPECS: This is the world's largest digging machine and is a bucket-wheel excavator/ mobile strip miner. It works by churning the top levels of Earth away and digging and dumping in a continuous fashion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in scope. It is manufactured in Germany. O It weighs approximately 22 TONS, OR 380 Blue Whales (the largest animal on the planet). O The maximum speed for the 288 is 1/3 mile per hour. It can dig up to O The Bagger 288 is 984 feet long 33 FEET it would take 6 Olympic sized swimming pools to fill this much space. PER MINUTE HOWEVER. So, what it lacks in travel speed it makes up for in depth. O The Bagger 288 can excavate O It would take 240,000 TONS 40,000 PEOPLE†††I of coal, rock and Earth each day. a day to do the equivalent work of this machine. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externāly supplied electricity. It would take roughly 16 LARGE WIND. | TURBINES 价 to provide the electricity required by the Bagger 288. The energy needed by the Bagger 288 is roughly the same as is needed by 16,500 HOMES ******** 合 合 合 舍 (1MW per 1,000 Homes). For each kW of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 are released into the atmosphere. This means that 21,528 LBS OF C02 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: are released into the atmosphere every time this machine is turned on. 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Improve the weather inside. hel Mech anical MONSTROSITIES Extraction O Fossil fuels are BIG business, and the machines we use to extract fossil fuels from the ground are some of the largest on the planet. This infographic will highlight six of these energy powerhouses and illustrate the colossal environmental footprint of each. 01. D575A-3SD World's Biggest and Most Powerful Bulldozer SPECS: This land-shifting, earth-shredding beast was manufactured in Japan and is used to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth. This powerful machine is O Stands 16 FEET TALL, 41 FEET LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE equipped to knock over mountains, that's how strong it is. It is used in strip mining of coal in Northeast America. O The blade weighs over 22,000 LBS AND IS 24 FEET 3 INCHES WIDE AND 11 FEET TALL. O The D575A-3SD weighs 300,000 LBS 150 TONS= APPROXIMATELY O 1150 HP engine = 1,150 horses = 4 CHEVY CORVETTES 18 adult African Savanna Elephants. Chevrolet Cor- vette 400 HP The blade also covers a colossal 90 cubic yards and can shove or pull 480,000 lbs of mass, the equivalent of 32 Tyrannosaurus Rex's. > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The D575A-3SD Bulldozer consumes an average of: This is the equivalent of the yearly fuel usage of more than 300 440 gallons average of diesel fuel each day cars. OR 160,600 gallons each year. > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The 160,600 gallons of diesel fuel used each year result in roughly 3,565,320 Ibs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. The average tree given this rate, it would take consumes 50 pounds 71,306 trees of CO2 per year one year to offset the annual CO2 emissions of one D575A-3SD 02. LIEBHERR T 282B SPECS: The world's biggest truck is a massive German manufactured Earth-hauling mining O The Liebher T 282B weighs in at dump truck that has the capacity to carry 400 tons at 64 km/h. It is built by hand in Newport News, VA and is powered by a combination diesel/electric engine. 658 TONS = roughly 440 Average sized sedans E O At the time of its launch in 2004, it had the largest payload O The Liebherr T282B measures in at CARRYING CAPACITY 24 FEET TALL in the world and held this prestigious spot until 2008. O The T282B can carry up to O The T282B has a 3,650 HP engine the equivalent of 5 average sized homes weighing 80 tons each. 400 tons or the equivalent of 9 CHEVY CORVETTES 400 HP еach > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Liebherr T282B utilizes a 2723-kilowatt diesel engine to power its two electric motors. The Liebherr T282B guzzles 600 TONS OF FUEL in a 12-hour operational day, or 219,000 tons per year. 50 TONS OF diesel fuel per hour which is equivalent to This is the equivalent of the annual fuel consumption of approximately 409 average sized cars. The fuel capacity of the Liebherr T282B is 1,250 gallons, or 456,250 gallons of gas annually if filled up once per day, which is equivalent to > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: O 115 FULL tanks of an average sized Sedan. O The CO2 emissions from a gallon of gasoline equates to 19.4 pounds per gallon. Thus, 1 acre of Rainforest absorbs 12,000 pounds of CO2, thus it would take the Liebherr T282B emits 8,851,250 to absorb the amount of 737 acres CO2 emitted into the atmos- of Rainforest phere annually by the Lieb- herr T282B. pounds of CO2 per year. 03. OVERBURDEN CONVEYOR BRIDGE F6O This piece is considered the world's largest movable technical industrial machine and sadly was laid to rest in 1991 due to energy-political reasons, after being in operation for a mere 13 months. As an overburden conveyor bridge, it transported the overburden which lies over the coal seam. It still exists as a tourist attraction. "The Lying Eiffel Tower" 502 m 320 m SPECS: O The F60 weighs in at 27,000,000 Ibs = O The F60 is 197 feet tall and 20,769 men 1,648 feet long the size of Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man. If the Empire State Building were to collapse on its side, it would be 200 feet shorter than the F60. The F60 can excavate a staggering 100,000 tons of earth per hour This corresponds to the volume of a soccer field with a depth of 26 feet. In order to operate, the 21.424 HOMES > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: bridge requires 27,000 kW of power per hour or 236,520,000 kW per year annual energy usage of AAAAAAAAAA For each kWH of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 Y is released into the atmosphere, meaning the F60 has a yearly carbon footprint of roughly 153,738 tons of CO2, It would take 3,074 trees an entire year to offset this much CO. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < 04. CLAW (TEREX RH400) 11-38 SPECS: This earth excavating, demolition machine is regarded as the world's largest hydraulic shovel. Its Claw is large enough that it can "devour" a typical crane in one fell swoop. O The Claw itself weighs 2,156,000 lbs. 415 Ford F-150s OR O The RH400 stands at O The RH400 has 4,500 net horsepower the equivalent power of 33 FEET TALL AND 32 FEET WIDE 112 CORVETTES O It can scoop up 9,900 tons of Earth O It only takes between 3 to 5 scoops to entirely fill up 240-400 ton mining trucks and can shovel per hour and holds a world record in its class for this. 94 TONS in one scoop. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The RH400 has a fuel tank that holds 4,226.8 gallons, or the fuel capacity equivalent of 320 2009 Honda Civics. Each time the RH400 uses the fuel in its tank, 93,834 LBS OF CO2 are released into the atmosphere. It would take an entire ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: 1,876 TREES a year to offset this much CO2. 05. "BIG MUSKIE". XXIXIXIXI AEP BIG MUSKIE SPECS: Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It was in operation from 1969-1991, until it was sadly destroyed. Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. O Big Muskie weighed nearly 14,330 tons - Almost 2 U.S. attack submarines (US Virginia attack submarines = 7,800 tons) Capable of removing O She stood at nearly 22 stories tall, or 608,000,000 222.5 FEET TALL, 151.55 FEET WIDE AND 487.5 LONG cubic yards of overburden = 2X amount of earth moved during construction of the Panama Canal. O Her bucket could carry two Greyhound buses side by side. O In her time, she moved more than 483 MILLION TONS OF ROCK AND SOIL O Big Muskie was able to move 39 to uncover the 20,000,000 tons of clean coal underneath. MILLION POUNDS of earth every hour. Energy used by Big Muskie would power This equates to ENERGY > CONSUMPTION: 30,360,0000 kWh 27,500 HOMES on an annual scale. For each kWh of electricity used, 1.3 lbs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere, meaning this crowd favorite released 39,4680,000 lbs of C02 into the atmosphere every time it powered up. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < The 10,000 acres of the land stripped and mined by Big Muskie were reclaimed in 1994 and is now called The Wilds, a wildlife preservation. 06. BAGGER 288 SPECS: This is the world's largest digging machine and is a bucket-wheel excavator/ mobile strip miner. It works by churning the top levels of Earth away and digging and dumping in a continuous fashion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in scope. It is manufactured in Germany. O It weighs approximately 22 TONS, OR 380 Blue Whales (the largest animal on the planet). O The maximum speed for the 288 is 1/3 mile per hour. It can dig up to O The Bagger 288 is 984 feet long 33 FEET it would take 6 Olympic sized swimming pools to fill this much space. PER MINUTE HOWEVER. So, what it lacks in travel speed it makes up for in depth. O The Bagger 288 can excavate O It would take 240,000 TONS 40,000 PEOPLE†††I of coal, rock and Earth each day. a day to do the equivalent work of this machine. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externāly supplied electricity. It would take roughly 16 LARGE WIND. | TURBINES 价 to provide the electricity required by the Bagger 288. The energy needed by the Bagger 288 is roughly the same as is needed by 16,500 HOMES ******** 合 合 合 舍 (1MW per 1,000 Homes). For each kW of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 are released into the atmosphere. This means that 21,528 LBS OF C02 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: are released into the atmosphere every time this machine is turned on. 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Improve the weather inside. hel Mech anical MONSTROSITIES Extraction O Fossil fuels are BIG business, and the machines we use to extract fossil fuels from the ground are some of the largest on the planet. This infographic will highlight six of these energy powerhouses and illustrate the colossal environmental footprint of each. 01. D575A-3SD World's Biggest and Most Powerful Bulldozer SPECS: This land-shifting, earth-shredding beast was manufactured in Japan and is used to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth. This powerful machine is O Stands 16 FEET TALL, 41 FEET LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE equipped to knock over mountains, that's how strong it is. It is used in strip mining of coal in Northeast America. O The blade weighs over 22,000 LBS AND IS 24 FEET 3 INCHES WIDE AND 11 FEET TALL. O The D575A-3SD weighs 300,000 LBS 150 TONS= APPROXIMATELY O 1150 HP engine = 1,150 horses = 4 CHEVY CORVETTES 18 adult African Savanna Elephants. Chevrolet Cor- vette 400 HP The blade also covers a colossal 90 cubic yards and can shove or pull 480,000 lbs of mass, the equivalent of 32 Tyrannosaurus Rex's. > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The D575A-3SD Bulldozer consumes an average of: This is the equivalent of the yearly fuel usage of more than 300 440 gallons average of diesel fuel each day cars. OR 160,600 gallons each year. > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The 160,600 gallons of diesel fuel used each year result in roughly 3,565,320 Ibs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. The average tree given this rate, it would take consumes 50 pounds 71,306 trees of CO2 per year one year to offset the annual CO2 emissions of one D575A-3SD 02. LIEBHERR T 282B SPECS: The world's biggest truck is a massive German manufactured Earth-hauling mining O The Liebher T 282B weighs in at dump truck that has the capacity to carry 400 tons at 64 km/h. It is built by hand in Newport News, VA and is powered by a combination diesel/electric engine. 658 TONS = roughly 440 Average sized sedans E O At the time of its launch in 2004, it had the largest payload O The Liebherr T282B measures in at CARRYING CAPACITY 24 FEET TALL in the world and held this prestigious spot until 2008. O The T282B can carry up to O The T282B has a 3,650 HP engine the equivalent of 5 average sized homes weighing 80 tons each. 400 tons or the equivalent of 9 CHEVY CORVETTES 400 HP еach > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Liebherr T282B utilizes a 2723-kilowatt diesel engine to power its two electric motors. The Liebherr T282B guzzles 600 TONS OF FUEL in a 12-hour operational day, or 219,000 tons per year. 50 TONS OF diesel fuel per hour which is equivalent to This is the equivalent of the annual fuel consumption of approximately 409 average sized cars. The fuel capacity of the Liebherr T282B is 1,250 gallons, or 456,250 gallons of gas annually if filled up once per day, which is equivalent to > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: O 115 FULL tanks of an average sized Sedan. O The CO2 emissions from a gallon of gasoline equates to 19.4 pounds per gallon. Thus, 1 acre of Rainforest absorbs 12,000 pounds of CO2, thus it would take the Liebherr T282B emits 8,851,250 to absorb the amount of 737 acres CO2 emitted into the atmos- of Rainforest phere annually by the Lieb- herr T282B. pounds of CO2 per year. 03. OVERBURDEN CONVEYOR BRIDGE F6O This piece is considered the world's largest movable technical industrial machine and sadly was laid to rest in 1991 due to energy-political reasons, after being in operation for a mere 13 months. As an overburden conveyor bridge, it transported the overburden which lies over the coal seam. It still exists as a tourist attraction. "The Lying Eiffel Tower" 502 m 320 m SPECS: O The F60 weighs in at 27,000,000 Ibs = O The F60 is 197 feet tall and 20,769 men 1,648 feet long the size of Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man. If the Empire State Building were to collapse on its side, it would be 200 feet shorter than the F60. The F60 can excavate a staggering 100,000 tons of earth per hour This corresponds to the volume of a soccer field with a depth of 26 feet. In order to operate, the 21.424 HOMES > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: bridge requires 27,000 kW of power per hour or 236,520,000 kW per year annual energy usage of AAAAAAAAAA For each kWH of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 Y is released into the atmosphere, meaning the F60 has a yearly carbon footprint of roughly 153,738 tons of CO2, It would take 3,074 trees an entire year to offset this much CO. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < 04. CLAW (TEREX RH400) 11-38 SPECS: This earth excavating, demolition machine is regarded as the world's largest hydraulic shovel. Its Claw is large enough that it can "devour" a typical crane in one fell swoop. O The Claw itself weighs 2,156,000 lbs. 415 Ford F-150s OR O The RH400 stands at O The RH400 has 4,500 net horsepower the equivalent power of 33 FEET TALL AND 32 FEET WIDE 112 CORVETTES O It can scoop up 9,900 tons of Earth O It only takes between 3 to 5 scoops to entirely fill up 240-400 ton mining trucks and can shovel per hour and holds a world record in its class for this. 94 TONS in one scoop. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The RH400 has a fuel tank that holds 4,226.8 gallons, or the fuel capacity equivalent of 320 2009 Honda Civics. Each time the RH400 uses the fuel in its tank, 93,834 LBS OF CO2 are released into the atmosphere. It would take an entire ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: 1,876 TREES a year to offset this much CO2. 05. "BIG MUSKIE". XXIXIXIXI AEP BIG MUSKIE SPECS: Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It was in operation from 1969-1991, until it was sadly destroyed. Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. O Big Muskie weighed nearly 14,330 tons - Almost 2 U.S. attack submarines (US Virginia attack submarines = 7,800 tons) Capable of removing O She stood at nearly 22 stories tall, or 608,000,000 222.5 FEET TALL, 151.55 FEET WIDE AND 487.5 LONG cubic yards of overburden = 2X amount of earth moved during construction of the Panama Canal. O Her bucket could carry two Greyhound buses side by side. O In her time, she moved more than 483 MILLION TONS OF ROCK AND SOIL O Big Muskie was able to move 39 to uncover the 20,000,000 tons of clean coal underneath. MILLION POUNDS of earth every hour. Energy used by Big Muskie would power This equates to ENERGY > CONSUMPTION: 30,360,0000 kWh 27,500 HOMES on an annual scale. For each kWh of electricity used, 1.3 lbs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere, meaning this crowd favorite released 39,4680,000 lbs of C02 into the atmosphere every time it powered up. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < The 10,000 acres of the land stripped and mined by Big Muskie were reclaimed in 1994 and is now called The Wilds, a wildlife preservation. 06. BAGGER 288 SPECS: This is the world's largest digging machine and is a bucket-wheel excavator/ mobile strip miner. It works by churning the top levels of Earth away and digging and dumping in a continuous fashion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in scope. It is manufactured in Germany. O It weighs approximately 22 TONS, OR 380 Blue Whales (the largest animal on the planet). O The maximum speed for the 288 is 1/3 mile per hour. It can dig up to O The Bagger 288 is 984 feet long 33 FEET it would take 6 Olympic sized swimming pools to fill this much space. PER MINUTE HOWEVER. So, what it lacks in travel speed it makes up for in depth. O The Bagger 288 can excavate O It would take 240,000 TONS 40,000 PEOPLE†††I of coal, rock and Earth each day. a day to do the equivalent work of this machine. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externāly supplied electricity. It would take roughly 16 LARGE WIND. | TURBINES 价 to provide the electricity required by the Bagger 288. The energy needed by the Bagger 288 is roughly the same as is needed by 16,500 HOMES ******** 合 合 合 舍 (1MW per 1,000 Homes). For each kW of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 are released into the atmosphere. This means that 21,528 LBS OF C02 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: are released into the atmosphere every time this machine is turned on. 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Improve the weather inside. hel Mech anical MONSTROSITIES Extraction O Fossil fuels are BIG business, and the machines we use to extract fossil fuels from the ground are some of the largest on the planet. This infographic will highlight six of these energy powerhouses and illustrate the colossal environmental footprint of each. 01. D575A-3SD World's Biggest and Most Powerful Bulldozer SPECS: This land-shifting, earth-shredding beast was manufactured in Japan and is used to clear away large amounts of rubble, rock or earth. This powerful machine is O Stands 16 FEET TALL, 41 FEET LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE equipped to knock over mountains, that's how strong it is. It is used in strip mining of coal in Northeast America. O The blade weighs over 22,000 LBS AND IS 24 FEET 3 INCHES WIDE AND 11 FEET TALL. O The D575A-3SD weighs 300,000 LBS 150 TONS= APPROXIMATELY O 1150 HP engine = 1,150 horses = 4 CHEVY CORVETTES 18 adult African Savanna Elephants. Chevrolet Cor- vette 400 HP The blade also covers a colossal 90 cubic yards and can shove or pull 480,000 lbs of mass, the equivalent of 32 Tyrannosaurus Rex's. > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The D575A-3SD Bulldozer consumes an average of: This is the equivalent of the yearly fuel usage of more than 300 440 gallons average of diesel fuel each day cars. OR 160,600 gallons each year. > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The 160,600 gallons of diesel fuel used each year result in roughly 3,565,320 Ibs of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. The average tree given this rate, it would take consumes 50 pounds 71,306 trees of CO2 per year one year to offset the annual CO2 emissions of one D575A-3SD 02. LIEBHERR T 282B SPECS: The world's biggest truck is a massive German manufactured Earth-hauling mining O The Liebher T 282B weighs in at dump truck that has the capacity to carry 400 tons at 64 km/h. It is built by hand in Newport News, VA and is powered by a combination diesel/electric engine. 658 TONS = roughly 440 Average sized sedans E O At the time of its launch in 2004, it had the largest payload O The Liebherr T282B measures in at CARRYING CAPACITY 24 FEET TALL in the world and held this prestigious spot until 2008. O The T282B can carry up to O The T282B has a 3,650 HP engine the equivalent of 5 average sized homes weighing 80 tons each. 400 tons or the equivalent of 9 CHEVY CORVETTES 400 HP еach > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Liebherr T282B utilizes a 2723-kilowatt diesel engine to power its two electric motors. The Liebherr T282B guzzles 600 TONS OF FUEL in a 12-hour operational day, or 219,000 tons per year. 50 TONS OF diesel fuel per hour which is equivalent to This is the equivalent of the annual fuel consumption of approximately 409 average sized cars. The fuel capacity of the Liebherr T282B is 1,250 gallons, or 456,250 gallons of gas annually if filled up once per day, which is equivalent to > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: O 115 FULL tanks of an average sized Sedan. O The CO2 emissions from a gallon of gasoline equates to 19.4 pounds per gallon. Thus, 1 acre of Rainforest absorbs 12,000 pounds of CO2, thus it would take the Liebherr T282B emits 8,851,250 to absorb the amount of 737 acres CO2 emitted into the atmos- of Rainforest phere annually by the Lieb- herr T282B. pounds of CO2 per year. 03. OVERBURDEN CONVEYOR BRIDGE F6O This piece is considered the world's largest movable technical industrial machine and sadly was laid to rest in 1991 due to energy-political reasons, after being in operation for a mere 13 months. As an overburden conveyor bridge, it transported the overburden which lies over the coal seam. It still exists as a tourist attraction. "The Lying Eiffel Tower" 502 m 320 m SPECS: O The F60 weighs in at 27,000,000 Ibs = O The F60 is 197 feet tall and 20,769 men 1,648 feet long the size of Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man. If the Empire State Building were to collapse on its side, it would be 200 feet shorter than the F60. The F60 can excavate a staggering 100,000 tons of earth per hour This corresponds to the volume of a soccer field with a depth of 26 feet. In order to operate, the 21.424 HOMES > ENERGY CONSUMPTION: bridge requires 27,000 kW of power per hour or 236,520,000 kW per year annual energy usage of AAAAAAAAAA For each kWH of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 Y is released into the atmosphere, meaning the F60 has a yearly carbon footprint of roughly 153,738 tons of CO2, It would take 3,074 trees an entire year to offset this much CO. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < 04. CLAW (TEREX RH400) 11-38 SPECS: This earth excavating, demolition machine is regarded as the world's largest hydraulic shovel. Its Claw is large enough that it can "devour" a typical crane in one fell swoop. O The Claw itself weighs 2,156,000 lbs. 415 Ford F-150s OR O The RH400 stands at O The RH400 has 4,500 net horsepower the equivalent power of 33 FEET TALL AND 32 FEET WIDE 112 CORVETTES O It can scoop up 9,900 tons of Earth O It only takes between 3 to 5 scoops to entirely fill up 240-400 ton mining trucks and can shovel per hour and holds a world record in its class for this. 94 TONS in one scoop. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The RH400 has a fuel tank that holds 4,226.8 gallons, or the fuel capacity equivalent of 320 2009 Honda Civics. Each time the RH400 uses the fuel in its tank, 93,834 LBS OF CO2 are released into the atmosphere. It would take an entire ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: 1,876 TREES a year to offset this much CO2. 05. "BIG MUSKIE". XXIXIXIXI AEP BIG MUSKIE SPECS: Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It was in operation from 1969-1991, until it was sadly destroyed. Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. O Big Muskie weighed nearly 14,330 tons - Almost 2 U.S. attack submarines (US Virginia attack submarines = 7,800 tons) Capable of removing O She stood at nearly 22 stories tall, or 608,000,000 222.5 FEET TALL, 151.55 FEET WIDE AND 487.5 LONG cubic yards of overburden = 2X amount of earth moved during construction of the Panama Canal. O Her bucket could carry two Greyhound buses side by side. O In her time, she moved more than 483 MILLION TONS OF ROCK AND SOIL O Big Muskie was able to move 39 to uncover the 20,000,000 tons of clean coal underneath. MILLION POUNDS of earth every hour. Energy used by Big Muskie would power This equates to ENERGY > CONSUMPTION: 30,360,0000 kWh 27,500 HOMES on an annual scale. For each kWh of electricity used, 1.3 lbs of CO2 is released into the atmosphere, meaning this crowd favorite released 39,4680,000 lbs of C02 into the atmosphere every time it powered up. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: < The 10,000 acres of the land stripped and mined by Big Muskie were reclaimed in 1994 and is now called The Wilds, a wildlife preservation. 06. BAGGER 288 SPECS: This is the world's largest digging machine and is a bucket-wheel excavator/ mobile strip miner. It works by churning the top levels of Earth away and digging and dumping in a continuous fashion. What it lacks in speed it makes up for in scope. It is manufactured in Germany. O It weighs approximately 22 TONS, OR 380 Blue Whales (the largest animal on the planet). O The maximum speed for the 288 is 1/3 mile per hour. It can dig up to O The Bagger 288 is 984 feet long 33 FEET it would take 6 Olympic sized swimming pools to fill this much space. PER MINUTE HOWEVER. So, what it lacks in travel speed it makes up for in depth. O The Bagger 288 can excavate O It would take 240,000 TONS 40,000 PEOPLE†††I of coal, rock and Earth each day. a day to do the equivalent work of this machine. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externāly supplied electricity. It would take roughly 16 LARGE WIND. | TURBINES 价 to provide the electricity required by the Bagger 288. The energy needed by the Bagger 288 is roughly the same as is needed by 16,500 HOMES ******** 合 合 合 舍 (1MW per 1,000 Homes). For each kW of electricity used, 1.3 Ibs of CO2 are released into the atmosphere. This means that 21,528 LBS OF C02 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: are released into the atmosphere every time this machine is turned on. 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