"This quantity is not enough to operate hospital generators for more than thirty minutes,” Hamas added
This sounded like an exaggeration to me but it checks out by my calculations (correct me if I am wrong).
This website calculates 300 litres would generate 2.85 MW hours. If what Hamas says is true then the hospital would have to be using 5.7 MW of power.
I compared this with the state of Victoria (pop. 6.7M) Australia where the hospitals in total use 147MW of power. In non-wartime that Gazan hospital probably serves about ten times fewer people, which would be 14.7MW. Admittedly an Australian hospital’s power use is probably more profligate.
This sounded like an exaggeration to me but it checks out by my calculations (correct me if I am wrong).
This website calculates 300 litres would generate 2.85 MW hours. If what Hamas says is true then the hospital would have to be using 5.7 MW of power.
I compared this with the state of Victoria (pop. 6.7M) Australia where the hospitals in total use 147MW of power. In non-wartime that Gazan hospital probably serves about ten times fewer people, which would be 14.7MW. Admittedly an Australian hospital’s power use is probably more profligate.
Aussie Hospitals Power Use
Generator fuel consumption tables give an even worse answer, about half of that theoretical value.
Worse as in Hamas are right to call the offer insulting?
300 litres of fuel yields only half the power I calculated?
Tables like https://www.generatorsource.com/Diesel_Fuel_Consumption.aspx suggest that even just a 2.2MW generator would use that fuel up in about 30 minutes.
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