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PaulHoule • today at 6:49 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

The market for aircraft engine gas turbines is at least 5x the market for industrial gas turbines. We could eliminate natural gas for electricity overnight and GE would keep spinning. Even if it becomes hard to justify development of land-based gas turbines it will still be possible to repurpose jet engines for this purpose.

(Though I really want to see a fast reactor coupled to a supercritical CO2 or helium brayton cycle turbine!)