Saturday, January 24, 2026

Stumpsmasher said, "The steam turbine is a GE D11. 320 megawatt unit at the combined cycle power plant I operate. We had it apart for an overhaul this spring.


 

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  1. Nice. I used to work for Alstom's Power and Grid in Switzerland before the GE take over back in 2015. We built the GT24 and GT26. Good times!

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    1. Beautiful. Thank you for your contributions to civilization. 👍🏻

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  2. And that my good friends is how you maintain a stable electric grid.

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    1. Wish this site had an "upvote" button.

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    2. 👍🏻👍🏻
      Sometimes it’s easy to forget among the snide comments that many of us make from time to time just how much experience, expertise, and knowledge there is among CW’s crowd.

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  3. Though I would know nothing about how it works I would love to see that up close. Any kind of machine is fascinating to me especially something like that.

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  4. Steamed the last steam powered Adams class destroyers. Fun times!

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  5. Would love to work on something like this instead of these darn Legos.

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    1. Tolerances on these units are a lot tighter spec than Legos.

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  6. Millwrights, God's chosen few.

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  7. That looks like the transmission from a Datsun B210 I had back in the day. The Japanese engineering teams could pack a lot into a small car. Amazing!

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