New Horizons: HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER GENERATION AND A CLIMBING AIRCRAFT MARKET ARE DRIVING GAS TURBINE TECHNOLOGY

摘要

UR CHILDREN WILL ENJOY in their homes electric power too cheap to meter." So spoke Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atom-ic Energy Commission, in a speech given in 1954. This quote has become one of the most famous predictions of all time, and it has been proven to be as accurate a vision of the future as those of flying cars or underwater cities. Nuclear power has yet to live up to its early promise. Electricity generated by nuclear power plants using Rankine cycle technology turned out to be expensive, and this has almost caused its demise. Indeed, no nuclear plant has been ordered in the United States since 1978.