The history of the gas turbine can be traced back to 150 BC, when a Greek inventor, philosopher, and geometrician, Hero, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, invented a toy called the “Aeolipile.” The toy ...

Inside Siemens Energy AG’s vast glass and steel assembly hall in central Berlin, engineers are close to completing a 500-ton turbine for a natural-gas power plant. Workers have spent weeks on ...

On December 9, Boom Supersonic entered a new industry, introducing a natural gas turbine designed to meet the rising electricity needs of AI data centers. The US aerospace company is best known for ...

Electricity demand is surging in the U.S., but there’s years-long wait on the turbines that are a critical component of natural gas power plants. U.S. electricity consumption is on the rise, in part ...

Gas power is experiencing a stunning resurgence, driven by soaring electricity demand. But as utilities scramble to secure new capacity, a turbine supply crunch is unfolding, forcing urgent ...

Over the last few years, there have been drastic changes among gas turbine suppliers. Siemens has taken over Westinghouse while ABB has sold its power generation group, including the gas turbines, to ...

Wait times for the hulking turbines needed to turn natural gas into electricity have doubled in the past year as companies scramble to build data centers for A.I. The blades of a giant metal turbine, ...

In a rush to get Colossus up and running, Musk’s AI company is relying on the same environmentally unfriendly, natural gas-powered turbines used to restore power in natural disasters. When Memphis, ...

The rapid growth of AI and data centers is causing a significant increase in demand for electricity, leading to a global shortage of gas turbines needed for new power generation capacity. Despite the ...

Publicity photo of a first-generation Union Pacific GTEL locomotive and a circa-1923 electric auto in Fremont, Neb. The auto was owned by a local woman and the locomotive was on its way west to haul ...

During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...

When the Army launched the M1 tank program in the early 1970s, it was determined to avoid the cost overruns and failures that plagued earlier efforts like the MBT-70 and XM-803. This time, the Army ...