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Originally Posted by Mike Noc
Some even ended their time being used as shoreside power stations for remote towns.
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Yes, I can believe that because as you know motors and generators are not that dissimilar in construction and can be run in either mode. This seems to have escaped the attention of the motor industry which I think has always used a separate starter motor and a generator/alternator configuration. A dual-role starter-generator is not uncommon in the aviation industry and safeguards do have to be put in place in multi-engine configurations to prevent say one AC generator driving another as a motor when their outputs are combined. Allegedly.
They also made ships out of concrete during WW2 because of metal shortages. We still have the sunken hull of a concrete tugboat in our local river, it is The Cretehawser and a few of them were built with "Crete" incorporated into their name because of what they were made with. It was deliberately beached on the river bank at the end of its life.
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