Internal Combustion Engines
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INTRODUCTION : Near the bottom of the home page of this site, there is a simple calculation that shows that the heat-generating 'potential' of the 2-billion-plus gasoline-and-diesel-burning internal combustion engines on planet Earth is likely to be the equivalent of about 2 billion times 300 horses = 600 billion horses. In pulling together information like this on the burning of fossil fuels (oil distillates, coal, natural gas), I found that it is hard to find numeric data on the number of functioning internal combustion engines (ICE's) --- old engines as well as new ones that are produced/marketed each year. The number that I am looking for would include internal combustion engines (ICE's) 'in everything' FROM
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This includes turbine engines such as those in jet airplanes that run on jet fuel. In other words, the list is meant to include engines that run on 'oil distillates' --- but not engines that run on other fossil fuels, namely natural gas or coal. You can try a WEB SEARCH on keywords such as how many internal combustion engines in the world cars trucks trains planes ships You can find information like
Some Data Links: Below are some links that provide data that can be used to determine a MINIMUM number of functioning internal combustion engines (and other oil users) on our planet. A circa-2020 article (at phaedon.net) titled "Two billion points of carbon dioxide pollution" pointed out the following. "Worldwide, an estimated two billion internal combustion engines propel a global inventory of automobiles, locomotives, ships, aircraft, stationary power generators, lawnmowers and hand-held tools. ... Millions of oil furnaces heat homes. ..." According to 'greencarreports.com', about 1.2 billion of those ICE's are in cars and trucks. These are vehicles with typical horsepower ratings in the range of 200 to 500 horsepower. And, according to 'worldatlas.com', there are (only) about 60 million actual horses in the world. More on Horsepower Ratings: According to 'fortunebusinessinsights.com', marine engines have typical horsepower ratings in a wide range --- from about 5,000 to 110,000 horsepower. About 20,000 to 50,000 horsepower is the typical range for yachts. According to 'cycleworld.com', large motorcycles have a horsepower rating of about 110 horses. On the other hand, small ICE's --- in lawnmowers --- have horsepower ratings of about 3 to 7 horsepower for 'walk-behind' mowers and about 12 to 23 horsepower for 'riding' mowers, according to 'gardenguides.com'. CONCLUSION: It seems safe to say that there are at least 2 billion 'still available to function' internal combustion engines (ICE's) on planet Earth, circa 2020. And I will stick my neck out and say that the average horsepower rating of those 2 billion (or so) ICE's is about 300 horsepower. Some 'weighted averaging' with numbers of engines of various types (car, truck, marine, etc.) and their average horsepower ratings, could be used to give a more 'solid' average horsepower rating. That weighted-average may be put here someday --- if/when more comprehensive data on engine types is gathered here. This page of data on number of internal combustion engines (and horsepower ratings) is intended to be used as a reference in other pages of this web site --- pages that calculate world energy consumption in various units of measure. For further data on number of internal combustion engines on Earth, here are some web searches to try (and to modify).
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