The comparison is not really correct, because the "hp" was defined as the power that a horse could sustain for a very long time, like when being used to power a pump or a mill, which was the right equivalence for the replacement of a horse with a steam engine.
Like humans or any other animals, horses can sustain much higher powers for short times, than for long times. Few horses, if any, could sustain a power of "1 hp" for hours.
Then you could simply attach your 1hp engine to some simple mechanical device (e.g., an elevated water tank) that will deliver any amount of horsepower after having been "charged" by your engine for some time, and call that "peak power". I.e., the peak power measure doesn't make sense: the only number that counts is the average, sustained output.
It reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy's third-of-five book Life, the Universe and Everything
> Krikkiters
> This race of quiet, polite, charming and rather whimsical humanoids caused the most devastating war in the history of the Galaxy (with over two "grillion" casualties). Their homeworld, Krikkit, is surrounded by a black cloud, so they had no knowledge of the universe outside their world. When a spaceship crashed on the surface of Krikkit, the inhabitants quickly stripped it of its secrets and used them to create their own "flimsy piece of near-junk" craft, Krikkit One. Upon reaching the outer edge of the dust cloud and seeing the galaxy for the first time, the people of Krikkit marveled at its beauty before being gripped with fear of it and casually deciding to destroy it, famously remarking "It'll have to go." The Earth game of cricket is a racial memory of the events of the Krikkit Wars.
Monodraw has an understanding of objects in an ascii drawing. For example, you can select a box and edit the properties of it, or easily move just the box and not boxes within it.
Essentially it's a full flowchart editor that just outputs ascii.
At least ASCII flow is very very buggy on my Mac. And I’ve attempted with many web browsers.
That said, I’m hopeful that it improves its usability and it’s pretty awesome that it is open source and can be run locally which reminds me of hastebin.
> Every single part of his Frankenstein-esque device, which stands at about five feet in height off the ground when placed on a table, was built using materials that are less likely to cause melting or sublimation of the subject matter.
I'm seven and a half feet tall when I stand on a chair.
I've used the following to match RGB and HTML color codes to paint colors: http://www.easyrgb.com/en/match.php. Wasn't perfect, but got me pretty close!
