turbine
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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
The rapid and powerful reactions inside the chamber make it difficult to transfer energy to the turbine in a stable way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Completed in 1923, the power plant closed in 2008, leaving the main turbine hall of its beaux-arts building abandoned—until last year, when it became a place to play padel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Water swamped the turbine buildings on the ocean side of the reactors, and climbed 18 feet—about two stories—up the outsides of units 1 through 4.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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
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
At other campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi, Musk is relying on dozens of gas turbines to power data centers he says are necessary to train the artificial intelligence at the center of his business plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The second, much larger Colossus campus relies on power from a site in Mississippi where the company has been adding turbines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Nuclear power plants also use this process—they boil water to create steam that turns turbines.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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