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Used in jet turbine engines and automotive rechargeable batteries.
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After all, the strains on a jumbo jet turbine are far greater: 400 takeoff and landing cycles in a year, massive swings in thrust and temperature, sucking in unfiltered air.
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The company, founded by a group of Israeli military officials and jet-turbine experts from the former Soviet Union, has built a technology demonstrator but needs a bigger partner to take the concept further.
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The main reason for these projects is not to develop primary power sources for jet-turbine powered aircraft, but to build small, highly efficient fuel cells that could be used to make greener airliners.
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Salesforce is enabling that interface so that humans and turbine or jet engines could collaborate through a social network.
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The other will produce thousands of hi-tech turbine blades for jet aircraft engines around the world.
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There is another way to build a greener jet engine: by bypassing the turbine to an even greater extent, with an open rotor.
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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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Despite signs of a weakening U.S. economy, aerospace component manufacturers are working flat out, machining turbine compressor blades, high-speed bearings and other parts for jet-engine and aircraftmakers.
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As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
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