Hamster-powered train

Feb 22, 2017 9:04 AM

hill79

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'e's never gonna get to drink that water..

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why was it, that the whole time I watched it, I couldn't get 'Thomas the train's' theme song out of my head?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Teach him to make train noises

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

1 hamster power.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Now we just need multi track hamster powered drifting

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Say what you will, but he's never been late to a single plastic man train station stop.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's even has a tender!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

And a water refill station.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is cooler than it ras any right to be.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

The energy crisis is solved.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The future is now thanks to science

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

*I didn't choochoose chuglife

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why are we not funding this?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

First Great Western.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this is so true, it isn't even funny.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is it just me or does the hamster look fake?

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

I had one of these a long time ago that comes with that exact pink wheel. It's motorized with wheels on the bottom instead of feet

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I guy in the green shirt for half the gif said its real but i will call Massey motors ltd tomorrow and see if they can confirm.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is exactly what they meant as Mouseville in The Green Mile

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm no expert, but I think that's a guinea pig.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

It's a fake hamster.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Oh, of course. Thank you.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Railrodent.

9 years ago | Likes 123 Dislikes 1

Amazing.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Ya know what. If I had an exercise train like this I'd run more honestly looks fun

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thats a guinea pig

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Hey look, its me!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Southern Rail new plan (which will improve their services)

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Don't knock it until you move to a place where the only train takes forever to get anywhere.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is going to be so underrated.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shame it's a train and not a tram cos then I could have used a shitty 'tramster' pun

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 2

Also, not a hamster? Or? Seems too big.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

go ahead, use it anyway!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Off to the front page with you! :)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 553 Dislikes 1

Ha! I've seen our mice do the same thing.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 122 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

I dropped my phone on my own face and this comment was on the screen. I don't know what post it's on. I'm sore and bewildered.

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Stop the wheel and watch him fly!!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ur doin it wrong

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thinking outside the wheel.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fight the system

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dave was... well not what you'd call normal.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ultimate climbing wall

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Using data from otherpower.com a hamster can produce 200mA @ 2.4V without tiring therefore 20,000 hamsters could power a high speed train.

9 years ago | Likes 453 Dislikes 9

The X55 is a modern high speed train peaking at 2,120kW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_(train)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, 20,000 hamsters. That would take a breeding pair, what..... 2 weeks to produce? Why aren't we funding this!?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or you can get a hamster on 2AA batteries like they did

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So, a few could recharge my phone? Hell Yeah, another use for them, while camping.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but how much is lost in heat?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly, that's not that many hamsters.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ICE 4 peaks at 9,900 kW.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

oh... so that explains the imgur server. the little shits tire out eventually...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So if I carry 10 hamsters I can charge my phone with them? Great!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

With that data you would actually need 35.6 million hamsters to run, say a Shinkansen at 17.08 MW. (According to my calculations)

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

think of all the food though, you'd have more peanuts than a hot girl's inbox

9 years ago | Likes 140 Dislikes 2

Damn man I've seen burnt coffee but that was a dark roast...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Think of all the shit, you'd still not have as much as imgur.

9 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

Use the shit to grow the peanuts. BOOM! Free energy.

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Apologies,I forgot to convert to kW so its 20,000,000 hamsters to power a 9600kw ICE 1 train.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

and still for a very short time

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

20 thousand was possible. We could have made it work. Now you're just being silly.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

With that data, 20000 hamsters barely produce 13 horsepower. I'm reasonably certain high-speed trains don't run on 13 hp.

9 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

Like 20,000 hamsters dragging the train, or are they still in wheels powering the train engines?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"op" missed an x1000. 200ma*2.4v * 20000 = 9.6kw. trains are ~10000 kw (=13000hp). a german ice3 is 8000kw, french tgv 8800kw

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So 20,000,000 hamsters then. Simple enough.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Class 08 shunter (built 1950s-1970s). Top speed 15mph (any faster, the motors explode). Uses a 450hp diesel engine for power.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, that's certainly the highest speed I've ever heard of in the last two seconds.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's quoting electrical output, so I'm assuming he's talking about an electrically powered train.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Horsepower does not have anything to do with the energy source. It's simply a unit of power, just like watts.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No, but the type of propulsion changes things. 20k Hamsters = 4000Amps at 48k Volts. That's enough to power quite a large motor.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

just no. 2.4v*200ma=0.48 watts. 2 hamsters either provide 400ma at 2.4v (parallel, = 0.96watts) or 200ma at 4.8v (series, = 0.96watts). ①

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He said they could run it. Doesn't mean they have to run it fast.

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

Can they even overcome the static friction coefficient to get the train moving at all?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

But... high speed train... That kinda means they have to run it fast?

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I have a degree in trains and high speed trains have to run at above 100mph or they fall apart, including during starting and stopping

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, a high speed train doesn't cease being a high speed train when it's parked.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Nah, the train is capable but they're running it slow to be cool.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

This just in: vehicles that can go fast can also go slow.

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

According to my calculations, this thread has produced enough salt to cure a ham made from the meat of 20,000 little dead hamsters

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0