Why are the Terminators dragging a turbofan jet engine?
In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 1 episode 6 (Dungeons & Dragons) in one scene in 2027 Derek Reese and other soldiers see Terminator robots dragging a huge turbofan jet engine in the night.
Why are these robots taking this jet engine and what is their purpose?
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Cross Site answer by Valorum at Science Fiction & Fantasy who said....
I initially thought Skynet might be strapping them onto Hunter-killers.
But on rewatching the episode a second time, I realised that we do actually see them again. Skynet has turned several of them upright in order to power its Time-Displacement Equipment (TDE).
With correct gearing, a 6000rpm jet engine converted into a makeshift electricity generator could easily produce between 250-300Kw. Six of them in series could generate in the order of 1-2 megawatts of power on demand. Not the most elegant of solutions (noisy, breakable), but then Skynet was getting pretty desperate by this point and evidently needed to build the TDE at short notice, unlike other timelines where it was able to custom-build and dedicate an entire facility to the TDE chamber.
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How are military jet engines different than turbofan engines?
The main difference between the two engines is in their construction and design. A turbofan has an additional fan at the front of the engine which takes some air from outside of it and blows it through the core of the engine, where combustion happens before sending it back out to create forward thrust.What drives the fan in a turbofan engine?
The fan (and booster stages) are driven by the low-pressure turbine, whereas the high-pressure compressor is powered by the high-pressure turbine.What planes use turbofan engines?
It is an engine commonly used on wide-body airliners like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A300. The Pratt & Whitney JT9D is a high bypass ratio (\u03b2 = 5) turbofan with separate nozzles for the fan and the jet.What is thrust lapse?
Thrust lapse rate, the rate at which engine net thrust decays with flight speed, is also a function of bypass ratio, and engines which are sized specifically for cruise thrust-drag matching will certainly produce increases in take-off thrust with increases in bypass ratio.HOW DO JET ENGINES work and WHY do they get BIGGER Explained by CAPTAIN JOE
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