They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.

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It has its eye on a joint project to design a gas-turbine modular helium reactor with the United States, Japan and France.

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Thanks to a 30% federal tax credit, that works out as much the same as a combined-cycle gas-turbine plant but without the noise and fumes.

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Most of the extra supply comes from inefficient gas-turbine generators.

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Meanwhile Rolls-Royce has sought to insulate itself from the quirks of procurement by applying its design to other industries: 80% of the gas-turbine technology used in its best-selling jet engines is the same for the energy and marine sectors.

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The 600-megawatt Indiana plant will convert coal into turbine-ready gas while stripping out pollutants nitrogen and sulfur.

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Combustion scientist Herman Snyder, who relocated from Wisconsin, had worked at a Caterpillar (nyse: CAT - news - people ) subsidiary designing gas turbine engines.

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Combined-cycle gas turbines, which use hot exhaust gases from one turbine to generate steam to turn a second one, can transform 6, 800 Btu of gas into a kilowatt-hour of electricity, enough to light one lightbulb for ten hours.

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Thanks to dramatic advances in wind-turbine technology, the costs of setting up and operating wind generators now approach those of gas turbines, even without subsidies.

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