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Thank you very much. I guess since I read piston I immediately thought "car engine" and applied the formula like the machine was a regular gas engine since he didn't say how it was connected i assumed like a conventional gas engine with connecting rod and crank.

Help me if I'm missing something here. Horsepower = (Torque * RPM)/ 5252 The torque for for one 24 hour period would be 27100 tons * 2000 Lbs/ton * 36 feet = 1,951,200,000 ft*Lbs The rate of 2 complete revolutions a day = 2 / (24 hours * 60 min/hour) = 0.001388889 RPM So plugging...