For the container ship junkies

Anyone who isn't into the awesomeness of container ships can go freeze in Soviet Russia. The uber-geeks over at Slashdot pointed me in the direction of this page featuring the Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine - currently the world's most powerful diesel engine and destined to live below deck in some fancy new container ship.

Above - the crank from the 10 cylinder version. The crankshaft on the 14 cylinder version weighs a whopping 300 tons all by itself!