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Monday, 23 January 2012
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And even more so, the turbine.
ReplyDeleteAll steamships today, be they coal-, oil- or nuclear powered, like aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines, use steam turbines. Each and every thermoelectric power plant - whether using fission, fusion or fossil - run their generators on steam turbines. Hydroelectric generators run on water turbines.
Jet engine is merely an offshoot of the turbine. Turbine itself has been even more revolutionary than jet engine.
Ironmistress;
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of Ram/Scramjets, obviously.
Back to the point, it also pays to remember the indirect benefits of turbines, such as the advances in precision manufacture and metallurgy brought about by the development of turbines.
If they can get the ceramic turbines to work (either with or without recuperators) that could be another set of benefits.
6 part YouTube about jet planes
ReplyDeleteKey frame shows a train at a train station