Once merely a staple of backup and distributed generation, reciprocating engines are now challenging other resources for utility-scale generation—in addition to carving out some new niches. Grant ...

For decades the technology chosen for a particular size power block was based on the largest size gas turbine that would fit. The installed cost of a power plant with one gas turbine costs less than a ...

Reciprocating engines in sizes from a few kilowatts to several MW are used to generate electricity by utilities, hospitals, manufacturing plants and commercial buildings. For many years these engine ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

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Apparently that old myth is still with us that a steam engine running on water cannot be developed because of the opposition of the oil companies. Firstly, a steam engine uses water, but it does not ...

Australian engineers might have solved one of the biggest obstacles to scaling up solar energy — the lack of affordable storage technology that allows solar to be used at peak demand after the sun ...

February 13, 2009 Technology capable of generating electricity by extracting energy from heat that is otherwise just wasted is a fairly new branch of renewable technology. A typical co-generation ...

Ask the average person about steam power and they’ll probably imagine a bygone era, a time when the sky was thick with smoke belched out by coal-burning locomotives and paddle-wheel ships. Steam is ...