If you can move it, this might power the average small town.....looks to be unused. http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=11703448&convertTo=USD
shipping off Hawaii would be expensive...
They managed to get the S/N wrong - it's 35Z01540 ......... built Feb 1986. 600KW to "power a small town" must mean that everyone's cooking with gas and not using a/c's I take it..?
It really is not all that big. We have four standby diesels at work, all CAT, v16 4160v three phase, capable of 6200 kw delivery from all four. These could power around fifty homes with minimal accessories. Problem comes from fuel consumption, ours eat up 450 gallons in 22 hours EACH at half load.
My last job we had 10 x 3516 sets as standby power that could produce 20MW continuous or 25MW standby. Even that was not much more than 20% of our total power consumption, just enough to do an ordered shutdown then keep the lights on and the basements pumped out.
Yair . . . Peoples unrealistic expectations on what is necessary is the major issue, power is too cheap. We lived very comfortably with 13 amps@240volts for 14 hours a day. In our present situation with a small solar system we seldom have a power bill . . . got in early and get a good price back into the grid for all our excess. Cheers.
It doesn't look new as you can see paint on the tags. May have been rebuilt or just a new hour meter added. Looks like it will sell cheap if someone has a use for it and can ship it.
We have a 16 cylinder 2 MW at work. It's in its own semi portable enclosure , 16 years old and still looks brand new. We run it for 30 minutes a month to do a few checks and it gets a complete service once a year. I can't remember the exact fuel usage but thinking 120 gallons an hour. I always wonder what happens to this stuff when plants close. The way companies run now I can see them giving to a contractor to get it off site or just scrapping it.