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The Overland Mark 2 SOLAR Gas Turbine Fuel Use

  • December 27, 2021
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SOLAR plant in San Diego, CA. Image: SOLAR brochure

A few weeks ago, I published an image of a SOLAR 10MC (Model Saturn T-1020S-4) gas turbine being installed within the Mark 2. The large circular tube on the top of the Mark 2 power generation cars and control car are exhaust ports – one port per turbine. Fuel use ranged anywhere from 30-65 gallons per minute while operating off road and 18-28 gallons per minute while on road.

  • Installing a Solar turbine in the Overland Train Mark II at Yuma Proving Ground. Image: United States government fair use.
  • Overland Train Mark 2 startup exhaust. Image: U.S. Army, fair use.
SOLAR gas turbine. Image: SOLAR brochure.

Here is a quick comparison of the SOLAR factory in San Diego. The first image is from a SOLAR Jupiter brochure, while the image on the right was captured 27Dec21 on Google Maps.

  • SOLAR plant in San Diego, CA. Image: SOLAR brochure
  • SOLAR factory 27Dec21. Image: Google Maps, for educational purposes only.
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