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Old 10-07-2008, 07:15 AM   #26 (permalink)
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I "do" gas turbines for a living (past 25 years). Mostly with aeroderivatives used in power generation or propulsion. They are very inefficient, spending most of their energy keeping themselves running. They would also run on diesel fuel or natural gas if they were to be put in a car/truck - remember there is no spark keeping these running, just an ignitor or two for initial light-off.

It would just be too cool to have one in a production vehicle though. It would be more of a "proof of concept" than anything else. Emissions would be the problem with these however. I don't think you you could ever get them remotely clean enough these days to even consider putting one in a production vehicle.

Looks to me like there is a lot of cut and paste, "everything I learned about gas turbines I learned in the past few google searches" going on here. Interesting discussion none-the-less.
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