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...comotive Company|ALCO]]-[[General Electric]] [[Union Pacific GTELs]] [[gas turbine–electric locomotive]]. X-18 is one of the third series, built 1958–61.]] [[File:Rtg limoges.jpg|thumb|[[Turbotrain]]s were [[gas turbine train]]s built in France 1971–75 and supplied to [[SNCF]], [[Amtrak]] and [ ...

...ociated auxiliary equipment ([[air compressor]]s, [[Gas compressor|natural gas compressors]], [[electrical]] [[switchgear]], [[pump]]s, etc.). ...

...e 1950s for use in [[car]]s, [[bus]]es, [[truck]]s, [[railcar]]s, shunting locomotives (US; [[switcher]]s), a [[speedboat]] and, in 1933, a converted [[Travel Air ...rt|275|psi|MPa|2|abbr=on|lk=on}} which was used in road vehicles, shunting locomotives and railcars. Steam could be raised much more quickly than with a conventio ...

...sel fuel]], but some types are adapted for other liquid fuels or [[natural gas]] (CNG). ...at these power levels, diesel arrays are sometimes preferred to open cycle gas turbines, due to their superior efficiencies. ...

[[File:UP Big Boy 4014.jpg|thumb|Some [[locomotives]] built in the mid-20th century were the heaviest ever.]] * Reciprocating [[steam engine]] replaced by [[gas turbine]]s, [[internal combustion engine]]s and [[electric motor]]s ...

| [[Autogas]] ([[Liquefied petroleum gas|LPG]]) (60% [[propane]] and 40% [[butane]]) | align ="right"|N/A to turbine engines ...

...[[Thomas Edison]] developed and sold a commercially viable replacement for gas lighting and heating using locally generated and distributed [[direct curre ...nergy sources for these machine are often fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), nuclear fission, geothermal steam, or falling water. Renewable sources su ...

...called a [[magneto]]. Alternators in [[power station]]s driven by [[steam turbine]]s are called turbo-alternators. Large 50 or 60 Hz [[three-phase]] al The first diesel electric locomotives, and many of those still in service, use DC generators as, before silicon p ...

[[File:Dampfturbine Montage01.jpg|thumb|200px|A steam turbine used to provide electric power]] ...voltage near the load. Secondly, it is often more economical to install [[turbine]]s that produce higher voltages than would be used by most appliances, so t ...

...systems such as [[electrical telegraph|telegraph]] and railroad networks, gas and [[water supply]], and [[sewage systems]], which had earlier been limite ...uild more roads. Railroads also benefited from cheap coal for their steam locomotives. This synergy led to the laying of 75,000 miles of track in the U.S. in the ...

...stainable Energy Reviews 2017 pp. 292–312">{{cite journal | title=Power to Gas projects review: Lab, pilot and demo plants for storing renewable energy an ** [[Power to gas]] ([[methane]], [[Hydrogen storage]], [[oxyhydrogen]]) ...

|''tech:'' peak power output of [[GE Energy|GE]]'s standard wind turbine ...of the [[Vestas V164|MHI Vestas V164]], the world's largest offshore wind turbine ...

...science-technology.com/Notes/Notes%201.htm Taqi al-Din and the First Steam Turbine, 1551 A.D.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218171045/htt ...n, and powering lumber, machining and textile operations]]. Modern [[water turbine]]s use water flowing through a [[dam]] to drive an [[electric generator]]. ...

...science-technology.com/Notes/Notes%201.htm Taqi al-Din and the First Steam Turbine, 1551 A.D.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218171045/htt ..., the power to weight ratio of steam engines made practical steamboats and locomotives possible.<ref name="HunterIndustrialPower">{{cite book |title=A History of ...

...nsport became commonplace due to advances in the development of [[electric locomotives]]. Over time their general-purpose commercial use reduced to specialist rol ...of a severe observable climate change brought on by human-made greenhouse gas emissions, was held in 2009. During the summit, more than 70 countries deve ...

...fourth, they learn to use the energy of [[natural resource]]s: coal, oil, gas. In the fifth, they harness [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]]. White introdu ...t. Some of these wells, which were as deep as 900 meters, produced natural gas which was used for evaporating brine.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Genius of C ...

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...[combined cycle]] or combustion turbine plants typically fueled by natural gas. [[Wind turbine]]s, [[vehicle-to-grid]], [[Virtual power plant|virtual power plants]], and ...

...ain engines used [[turbopump]]s (machines consisting of a pump driven by a turbine engine) to feed the propellants (liquid oxygen and [[liquid hydrogen]]) int ....com/engines/marine/pdfs/datasheet_lm2500plus.pdf|title=LM2500+ Marine Gas Turbine|publisher=[[GE Aviation]]|access-date=2010-01-25|archive-date=2011-08-08|ar ...