The Most Powerful Engine In The World 

I am a marine engineer and I operate and maintain big engines like Sulzer, MAN, B&W, GM, GE, Wartsila, Daihatsu, Waukesha, Enterprise, Fairbanks-Morse, you name it. Retired now, and I miss all that machinery and noise.

If it's electric, it's not an engine, it's a motor. An engine converts the chemical power of fuel into heat through combustion. An electric motor converts electrical energy to mechanical energy, usually by employing electromagnetic phenomena.

Wind turbines are not engines. Engines cause the rotation of the drive shaft rather than the motion of the drive shaft causing motion of the internal moving parts of the machinery ("engine").

Don't know how old this thread is but the current most powerful diesel engine is the MAN B&W 96C, with a bore of 960 mm, a stroke of 2.5 metres, a cylinder displacement of 25.7 metres-cubed for the inline 14-cylinder version, which produces 109,000 hp at 110 rpm. The engine is used in very large containerships (think 'Emma Maersk).

LOL, and scratch my head in awe, seeing that WARTSILA RT-FLEX96C and remember thinking, as a 17 year old, how much of an accomplishment it was to hook up the front exhaust pipe to the manifold on a mid 70s Austin Mini! I stand very humbled.......!

I'm grateful for your video showcasing amazing machines! Which one is the most expensive in your collection?

I love your videos. Thanks and much appreciation

Great video for a change.

How amazing the engines

Major Campbell!!! He did 2 breaking records! SMART ASS , AND yes he did die on trial 3. Prior to last at 140 MPH water and dealy 450 MPH land record and sadly gone. Last , (oh wheels) 1997! The blue bird 2 ! Fully steel wheels at 700 MPH record. And still.. Ty. Missed information page/bud

I Was MOST Amazed with that one engine when I saw it that time. Thanks

Kind of odd to call a wind turbine generator an engine. You do know the difference, don't you Scary Cherry?

For those that don't know, here's a little tidbit of technical trivia associated with large mining trucks shown in the videos. The engines in those vehicles don't actually link via a transmission and drive shaft to the wheels. They're actually diesel engine generators that produce electricity, which in turn powers the motors in each of the wheel hubs. It's those electric motors that actually make the trucks move. But I'm still confused about the conversation about the GE "engine" mounted on the wind turbines. That's not an engine, as it doesn't run to create power. It's a generator that produces electricity, not an engine. It's gotta be hard producing videos that discuss topics that the video makers don't understand very well. This appears to be one of those types of videos.

Disappointed to not see any rocket engines on this list, off the top of my head I can think of 3 or 4 engines that have jaw dropping power. For example; the F1 that powered the Saturn 5 first stage on the Apollo missions, the RS25 engines that powered the space shuttle and now the new Artemis rocket and you also have rockets like the SpaceX raptor and Blue Origin’s BE4 engine that are also set to break some records!

Beautiful ❤️ I wish it was a little closer 🥰💯

A windmill generator is not an engine. DAH!!

The 5 liter V8 that they described as naturally aspirated had twin turbochargers on it!

What's with the cutting of audio? Is it now against RU-vid policy to say world war two??

It also powered the B-29, such as Enola Gay.

Boeing was the first manufacturer to get their 2-engine 757 FAA certified for trans-oceanic flight. FFA requires all commercial aircraft must be able to stay flying with ONE engine shut down. You read it right - the 757 aircraft, fully loaded with cargo and people, stays in level flight with only ONE engine running. I was the project manager for Boeing's Jet Engine Test Stand switching system used at their huge Everett, WA plant for testing engines used on every commercial jet aircraft they manufacture. Engines weighed 10,000 pounds and produced 40,000 pounds of thrust each. Each plane has 7 miles of orange flight test wiring used only once - to FAA certify the aircraft to be flight worthy. Then the 7 miles of orange wiring/cables are all ripped out by a work crew..

Wait… you have to bleep the word “War” ??? RU-vid, wtf are you doing?

To my knowledge , the MAN 14L 96/314 is the biggest piston engine : 14 cylinder in line , bore 96 cm , stroke 314 cm - 118 000 hp .

I think it's more important that you do not want to be in front of a jet engine. being in the back might not be as big a deal. being in the front is going to make you be in the back really fast and in many pieces

The Caterpillar GCM34 is natural gas powered engine used in power generation that puts out 10 MW. Very useful as near instant backup power. Then depending how high you want to go and how far you want to stretch the definition of 'engine' the General Electric 9HA industrial gas turbine puts out 838 megawatts in combined cycle mode - which is a big city sized power output in one machine.

The engines on the Saturn 5 rocket were not so big but they were certainly powerful !

I used to build skids with mostly big Catapillar diesel and natural gas engines but also some Detroit diesel engines and occasionally a couple of other brands.

not sure if this fits in. We used to have the bigger the sound speakers the louder you are. Now it's just a small blue tooth speakers

#sweet topic I think it’s for a boat

That's what powers Hunter's lap top

The first Engine in this video reminds me of the engine in the 1927 movie metropolis.

More and more Mistry in history and facts 😮

You forgot the 16 millon horse power Saturn V rocket engine that men to the moon

An addition to the first to be shown, the 8 cylinder engine weighs over 3.000.000 lbs, that's 1400 ton. They start it up every two weeks and let it run for 10 min.

Coal powered train...bad. Coal powered electric train...good. 😂

Shockwave has 3 jet engines, actually.

Yes, an American video which talks about jet engines without mentioning the mighty Rolls-Royce Trent engine which is fitted to many 747s and A380s amongst others.

Those engines were design to out last all of us.

I remember back in early '79, I helped with an overhaul of a Waukesha-Pearce HUGE diesel engine in the Grand Canyon. (above Havasupai) on Long Mesa. There were three engines running really gig generators. Two of them ran all the time, but not full speed for too long. One could handle all night, but you needed both during the day for air conditioning etc. Then they ran the backup unit when we overhauled one of the big ones. It was a very good experience. I'll never forget Mr Emil Slotten 👍 Excellent man. 🙏

Why did you mute "World War II" at 4:56 and 5:16 but then leave it in at 22:22?

What is wrong with saying World War II, and Japan in the same sentence?

There is a good candidate I've recently heard about for this list. It's a semi truck called Thor. A custom job of course, but seriously impressive in stature and I think deserves its place among the rest. Thank you for all your videos. I've enjoyed every one I've seen.

I honestly wouldn't have put the SHOCKWAVE jet truck on here. The truck had a malfunction and was destroyed in a crash last year. Chris Darnell who was driving it lost his life in the accident.

In the Sierra Nevada there is a ski resort that has no outside power they have a building with 6 Caterpiller given generators when you enter the building you can't hear anything but the engines

Impressed by all those Emm Double yous produced by that windmill 😂

that pi55 at 2:35 is photo shopped

the big boy 4014

Large slow speed diesels either on ship or shoreside power plants are above 80 Megawatts/110,000 HP. None of the smaller engines come close. There are Gas Turbines above 250 Megawatts in shoreside plants

😅😅😅😅well information good show 😅😅

I wonder if I could back that up to my Allison trans.

The centipede it just go through your own holes........

Energy is not created.

Why couldn't they say "World War II"??????

The engines on the Saturn 5 rocket were not so big but they were certainly powerful.

Actually #18 powered the B-29 bomber first which did what he said, not the B-50 which was built after the war.

Beautiful engines, although not the most powerful as the title suggests. And for a windmill its called a generator and MW is MegaWatt.

Can't tolerate the computer-generated voice overlay.

B-50 did not fly in WWII, the B-29 did which is what the B-50 came from. B-29 had R-3350s and they were problematic during the war.

I'm surprised that the Saturn 5 rocket engines did not make the list of most powerful engines.

What about the nucleair powered aircraftcarriers wich run for years on no end? They have a massive propulsion system wich can be seen as the engine of the ship. 2x 194 MegaWatts is a lot of power if you ask me.

Electric is not an engine, it's a motor. An engine is a primary fuel consumer.

Mining machines are so big, I think these machines help miners a lot, because every year there are many unwanted accidents that happen to miners. It is pitiful.

All of the engens are super powerful i liked all of the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Your accuracy leaves a bit on the table....

Say cut the wise cracks, the subjecr matter is all we need to hear

the 500 cc J.A.P. motor cycle speedway engine, nothing could touch it for three decades.

😆talking about ge90 with Rolls-Royce Trent video

Pretty much everything said about the wind turbine is marketing propaganda

It arow complete with transmit able virtual wheel. Capacities.

Where is the F-1 engine used in the Saturn V moon rocket with its 1.8 million lbs. of thrust? Its fuel pump alone put out 55,000 horsepower.

The Koenigsegg is not naturally aspirated as stated or the pics are a different engine? Those are obviously turbos on both sides

Pollution big time! All that smoke!

B-29

Clark TCVA-16, V16, 2 stroke natural gas powered integral compressor engine

"KA-wasaki," not "COW-asaki."

The big turbines and the big ship engines are by far the most powerful . The engines ( actually motor / generators ) that pump water back up to higher lakes at low demand times may be the most powerful

the space shuttle is the most powerful thing ever built with engines

There is one Big Boy in the Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan

Lb-ft (pound-feet) is correct.

Well, really, classically, an “engine” is an engineered system. Long before there were heat engines there were “siege engines” in medieval wars - towers and cranes to storm castles. So I don’t fret too much over the modern distinction.

That's a very nice engine, is it a replacement for a cummins 5.9. 😅

I was hoping to see the Wankel (rotary engine)

One R-4360 Wasp Major put out 4300 HP with the addition of two turbochargers along with it's supercharger. Wikipedia.

I want a jet engine in my Fiero.

BRUTUS !! Not for it's engine, but for the sleek aerodynamic design... 🤣

An atomic bomb test in Australia blew a Centurion tank 10 feet. It became Australia's first nuclear tank. It later saw service in Vietnam. The tank still exists. Centurion 169041 is likely the only tank in history to have been hit by an atomic blast and not only survive, but fight in combat afterwards. This tough old tank was designed to fight the Germans in WWII, but proved itself capable of standing up to a nuclear bomb too. This particular Centurion was subjected to a 10 kiloton nuclear bomb from a distance of around 400 meters in the Australian Outback. Test crews returned expecting to find pieces of what was once a Centurion scattered around the site, but they were shocked to the tank in one piece and still functional. Once refueled it drove off. Centurion 169041’s unique distinction of living through the test was reflected by its well-earned nickname: The Atomic Tank. Centurions were designed during WW2 to take on German Tiger and other tanks. To make it go they used a version of the Rolls Royce Merlin fighter engine. The war ended before they saw action.

Windmills are not engines that are only waste of money

Gas for Engines, Electricity for Motors.. There is a big difference...

The wind turbines considered motors? I thought that they were simply called generators.

Did you have to block out the word "war" because of RU-vid?

How about funny cars and top fuel dragster engines? I thought they would be on there for sure.

And there might be to engines in the boat

Here, let me help out with your engineering unit problems: MW is Megawatts, a unit of power, one million Watts lbf is pounds force, a measure of thrust in jet engines Torque is not expressed in pounds per foot (that is spring rate), it is expressed as pounds*feet.

Hey Scary Cherry 🍒, I heard you quantify the engine’s torque output in “pounds-per-foot.” That’s not correct; torque is a force applied to the end of a lever in a direction normal to the radius 🦴 represented by the lever, in this case, centered @ the axis of the engine’s crankshaft.

The Haliade-X 12 MW isn't an engine, it's a wind powered electricity generator...

yes , Cummins diesel makes some impressive small and big engines

You missed the most powerful "engine" there is.. the GE Harriet 9HA.02, which by itself generates 765,723 hp! When you use it as a combined cycle generator (using the exhaust to boil water that spins a steam turbine) it generates 1,123,777 hp!!

Ahh yes the B-50, wtf is a b-29

Clickbait. The Most Powerful Engine In The World? SO WHERE IS IT? Not in your video, that's for sure! 😎

Not from copengagen but from nordjyland Brovst dk❤️

Not even close. You dont have a single ship engine? Cmon now..