turbine
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Paddy made the hull out of the mast from a scrap wind turbine before welding a bow and a stern on and then adding an engine.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The company is investing $725 million to expand generator production at an Indiana plant and it converted another plant in Kansas to produce turbine engines popular with data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ming Yang has described the UK government's decision - on what would have been the UK's largest wind turbine factory - as a "significant missed opportunity", saying it could have supported up to 1,500 jobs.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Earlier this year, the KIT team also became the first to generate electricity with a hydrogen gas turbine that does not rely on a mechanical compressor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
He imagined her as, say, Mrs. Cobb, swooping out from behind her picket fence with eyes aflame, calling down the turbine perflant upon a minister’s son who threw rocks.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Big swings can stress and shorten the life of engines and turbines, and can even cause shaft fractures, according to the energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cracked turbines and broken engine cranks both are major failures that require replacement, according to Nina Sadighi, founder of Eradeh Power Consulting, an electrical engineer who formerly worked at Amazon and Tesla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Geothermal, which involves tapping into Earth’s underground heat to spin turbines, looks a lot like nuclear in that it can produce clean electricity 24 hours a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Its major components, including reactor vessel heads, steam generator parts and low-pressure and high-pressure turbines, were all recently updated as part of the 2030 extension, said Maureen Zawalick, chief risk officer at PG&E.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The NACAites ran their giant turbines into the wee hours if necessary, engineers pressing the machines for answers to their research questions like night owls on the hunt for mice.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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