Thanks for this, a full-filling heads up. Brillouin is an excellent team, congratulations to them. The long life of a modern turbine for large scale electrical power generation is fifty years. Targeting these turbines is a market strategy of Brillouin and Cherokee, each with excellent global positioning. China would love to see an end to king coal and can implement this replacement through state mandate, quicker than any other adoption method. Economics will spur the rest. The coal trains will quickly stop. Those turbines will keep turning for decades, clean electricity, with LENR thermal.





“Bertrand Russell saw the Enlightenment as a phase in a progressive development, which began in antiquity, and that reason and challenges to the established order were constant ideals throughout that time.”





A bit of prose for your enjoyment during these end of year holidays.





Live and Learn





I will learn something new every day!





Well, that's a Noble Profession





Two things are absolute (not just one)





In order to succeed





You got to be ignorant





And you got to be smart

gbgoble2015





Aeolus, the Greek god of air and wind, played a part in inspiring the first turbine. A symbiosis of the sacrum/profanum.





A god of Greece was observed as air (pressure) and as sun (heat) when swirling wind (motion) was felt upon his face. Pondering this while watching mists form and rise from the valley, dreaming of the steam whistling and bubbling out of kettles and pots in his grandmothers' kitchen. The unknowable is glimpsed, becomes a question, leading to locomotion, powering industry, and the Age of Enlightenment..





An aeolipile (or aeolipyle, or eolipile), also known as a Hero engine, is a simple bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated. Torque is produced by steam jets exiting the turbine, much like a tip jet or rocket engine. In the 1st century CE, Hero of Alexandria described the device.





The aeolipile Hero described is considered to be the first recorded steam engine or reaction steam turbine.





The name – derived from the Greek word Αἴολος and Latin word pila – translates to "the ball ofAeolus", Aeolus being the Greek god of the air and wind.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile



"A Fully Non-Metallic Gas Turbine Engine Enabled by Additive Manufacturing" Joseph E. Grady NASA Glenn Research Center NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) 2015 LEARN/Seedling Technical Seminar January 13–15, 2015 http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites…t/files/GradySeedling.pdf