Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...

What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of ...

Coal-fired plants have been powering the electric grid for more than a hundred years, but the technology being used in them is not stagnant, as many advancements have been made. One new design—the ...

Engineers have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine. The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say. Engineers at MIT ...

Supercritical carbon dioxide power system in southwest China is the world’s first commercial unit of its kind.

A damaged steam turbine generator is contributing to the delayed maintenance of the USS John C. Stennis as the aircraft carrier undergoes its midlife overhaul, service officials said. The unplanned ...

LiquidPiston's XTS-210 rotary engine is about the size of a basketball but could replace generator engines several times larger. A Connecticut-based company is on contract with the Army and Air Force ...

GE today announced it will overhaul two130-MW Siemens steam turbines at the hard coal-fired DHP Wedel Power Plant in Hamburg, Germany, owned by Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG (VE-W). The turbines were ...

PAWNEE -- Promoters of Pawnee's annual steam engine show are steamed over new power limits imposed on the antique engines. "We're very concerned," said Beverly Atteberry, a Tulsa attorney. "It will be ...