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$Have a look at one of the greatest examples of industrial engineering art ever created. This is the rotor assembly of the Ansaldo Energia GT36, one of the most advanced heavy-duty gas turbines ever developed. What looks like a collection of polished metal blades is actually the result of 3.7 million hours of engineering, combining decades of research in aerodynamics, combustion, metallurgy, cooling systems and precision manufacturing. A gas turbine works by compressing enormous volumes of air, mixing it with fuel, burning it at extreme temperatures, and extracting energy from the expanding gases through multiple turbine stages. That is why no two blade rows look the same. Across this rotor assembly, the colours, shapes and surface finishes constantly change because each section is solving a different problem. Some blades are designed to move and control massive airflow volumes, while others must survive the most extreme environment inside the machine. The most advanced turbine blades contain microscopic internal cooling channels. The cooling does not come from room-temperature air. Compressed air extracted from the compressor section already heated to 650 degrees Celsius, is redirected through passages inside the blade. It then exits through thousands of tiny holes, creating a thin protective cooling film in real time 24/7 over the surface of the blades while the surrounding combustion gases exceed 1,500°C all while rotating at 3000 RPM. A blade is not surviving because the metal alone can withstand the heat. It survives because engineers created a controlled thermal environment around it. The blades rely on advanced nickel-based superalloys containing elements such as rhenium, tungsten, cobalt and chromium, protected by metallic bond coats and ceramic thermal barrier coatings such as yttria-stabilised zirconia. These coatings are one of the most closely guarded proprietary technologies in turbine manufacturing. Every blade requires precision casting, advanced machining, laser drilling and microscopic inspection. A manufacturing defect measured in fractions of a millimetre can affect a rotor weighing around 150 tonnes and spinning at 3,000 RPM. The complete GT36 turbine system weighs around 520 tonnes and, in its most efficient combined-cycle configuration, can produce approximately 800 MW of electricity at around 64% efficiency enough to supply roughly 500,000+ homes. A complete power plant built around a machine like this can cost around $500-600 million, but the true value is not the steel and turbine machinery. It is the industrial capability and know how required to build a machine designed to operate for 30+ years and more than 100,000 equivalent operating hours, while repeatedly surviving one of the harshest environments humans have ever engineered. This is what the peak of industrial engineering looks like before it starts moving, this is what powers the world. Engineering is Art Video by AnsaldoEnergia$

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Ammanichanda

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A controlled taxi test on the jet engine test bed prototype. Giving u a glimpse of what the runway test may look like. Never forget, that Whatever the white man can do, we can do same, or even better, all we need, is willpower, and a war chest of resources ⚡️ The black man is NOT inferior to the white man ⚠️, we are capable of building great things too. This test was done at mild engine power, apologies for the lack of PPE, I didn't just have the strength to go upstairs and get em🤦🏻‍♂️, I'm still in recovery, not working at full capacity, plus it was impromptu, borne out of me missing the jet engine for so long #Zedora #madeinEbonyi #madeinNigeria 🇳🇬

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A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan is one of the most successful fighter jet engines ever built. First run was in 1972, it still powers the F-15 and F-16 more than 50 years later. Over 7,200 engines have been built, collectively logging 32+ million flight hours. At full afterburner, it produces up to 129 kN or 29,000 lb of thrust while burning roughly 800-900 litres of jet fuel every minute. The afterburner, it's a second combustion stage that ignites fuel in the exhaust stream to generate maximum combat thrust. This test cell isn't checking if the engine starts. It's measuring vibration, temperatures, pressures, fuel flow, and thrust while a machine producing 29,000 pounds of force is bolted to the ground. What here looks like a routine engine test is actually one of the most demanding demonstrations of precision engineering in aerospace, Each brand new F100 engine is worth roughly $5-8 million, reflecting five decades of continuous refinement in fighter propulsion. 🎥kaydenh0dge

Ammanichanda

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Tucker Carlson had an interesting take on power He basically argues that once people’s basic needs are met, the drive for “more” often turns into a desire for control over other people not just money anymore. His point is that everyone has that impulse to some degree, but the difference is whether people keep it in check or let it take over. He also suggests that a lot of people drawn to power positions may not be the most well-balanced psychologically but the ones most driven by that internal need to fill a void. A pretty blunt way of looking at how power and personality might overlap. Source: / Writer: Lynn

Tucker Carlson had an interesting take on power He basically argues that once people’s basic needs are met, the drive for “more” often turns into a desire for control over other people not just money anymore. His point is that everyone has that impulse to some degree, but the difference is whether people keep it in check or let it take over. He also suggests that a lot of people drawn to power positions may not be the most well-balanced psychologically but the ones most driven by that internal need to fill a void. A pretty blunt way of looking at how power and personality might overlap. Source: / Writer: Lynn

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Nine percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. Sixty-seven percent have confidence in small business. That gap is the whole story, and it has nothing to do with left and right. Look at who Americans still trust. Small business at 67. The military at 61. The police at 45. Every one of them builds something or protects someone. A small business makes a product and dies if nobody wants it. A soldier defends a country. A cop shows up when you call. They get judged on whether the job actually got done. Now look at the bottom. Congress at 9. Television news at 14. Newspapers at 17. One defrauds you. The other lies to you about it. Neither builds anything. Neither protects anyone. And neither one is ever punished for being wrong. That is not an opinion. Here is what Congress presides over. The GAO estimates the federal government loses between 233 and 521 billion dollars every single year to fraud. Not waste. Fraud. Improper payments have hit roughly 3 trillion dollars since 2003. Last year alone was 186 billion. Congress has not balanced a budget since 2001. Nine percent is not cynicism. It is an accurate grade. Gallup started asking this question in 1973, during Watergate, with a president on his way to resigning. Congress scored 42 percent that year. In 2014 it hit 7, the lowest reading Gallup has ever recorded for any American institution. Watergate was a scandal. This is a business model. The press sits right next to them for the same reason. Thirty-four percent of Americans say they have no trust in the news media at all. Twenty-eight percent say they have a great deal or a fair amount. Americans have not lost faith in their country. They still trust the man who fixes the engine. The sergeant. The woman who owns the shop. They stopped trusting the people who take from them and lie about where it went. That is not cynicism. That is a country that can still tell the difference.

Nine percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. Sixty-seven percent have confidence in small business. That gap is the whole story, and it has nothing to do with left and right. Look at who Americans still trust. Small business at 67. The military at 61. The police at 45. Every one of them builds something or protects someone. A small business makes a product and dies if nobody wants it. A soldier defends a country. A cop shows up when you call. They get judged on whether the job actually got done. Now look at the bottom. Congress at 9. Television news at 14. Newspapers at 17. One defrauds you. The other lies to you about it. Neither builds anything. Neither protects anyone. And neither one is ever punished for being wrong. That is not an opinion. Here is what Congress presides over. The GAO estimates the federal government loses between 233 and 521 billion dollars every single year to fraud. Not waste. Fraud. Improper payments have hit roughly 3 trillion dollars since 2003. Last year alone was 186 billion. Congress has not balanced a budget since 2001. Nine percent is not cynicism. It is an accurate grade. Gallup started asking this question in 1973, during Watergate, with a president on his way to resigning. Congress scored 42 percent that year. In 2014 it hit 7, the lowest reading Gallup has ever recorded for any American institution. Watergate was a scandal. This is a business model. The press sits right next to them for the same reason. Thirty-four percent of Americans say they have no trust in the news media at all. Twenty-eight percent say they have a great deal or a fair amount. Americans have not lost faith in their country. They still trust the man who fixes the engine. The sergeant. The woman who owns the shop. They stopped trusting the people who take from them and lie about where it went. That is not cynicism. That is a country that can still tell the difference.

Sovey

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Democrat groups are dropping six figures for a single day of protests in one city… and we’re supposed to believe this is all “grassroots”? Come on. Stages, lighting, generators, dozens of trucks, massive setups, that’s not organic, that’s organized money at scale. And nationwide, the same networks are pulling in billions every year. This isn’t random outrage. This is funded, coordinated, and built to look like something it’s not. And more people are starting to see it.

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⚡️‼️🇷🇺The Russian side has effectively confirmed for the first time that the "Orion" (also known as "Inokhodets") drone is a carrier for the small-sized cruise missile "Banderol." Ukraine designates this missile as S-8000. According to reports, the munition is capable of hitting targets at a maximum range of up to 500 km. The "Banderol's" cruising speed is 520–560 km/h, with a maximum speed of up to 650 km/h. The warhead weighs approximately 114–150 kg (with a net explosive weight of around 50 kg). It appears that the "Orion" is capable of carrying only one such missile. The most interesting aspect is the model and manufacturer of the jet engine. For a long time, a Chinese commercial engine, the Swiwin SW800Pro, was used on these missiles.

⚡️‼️🇷🇺The Russian side has effectively confirmed for the first time that the "Orion" (also known as "Inokhodets") drone is a carrier for the small-sized cruise missile "Banderol." Ukraine designates this missile as S-8000. According to reports, the munition is capable of hitting targets at a maximum range of up to 500 km. The "Banderol's" cruising speed is 520–560 km/h, with a maximum speed of up to 650 km/h. The warhead weighs approximately 114–150 kg (with a net explosive weight of around 50 kg). It appears that the "Orion" is capable of carrying only one such missile. The most interesting aspect is the model and manufacturer of the jet engine. For a long time, a Chinese commercial engine, the Swiwin SW800Pro, was used on these missiles.

SIMPLICIUS Ѱ

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Inside Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67B engine, two turbine systems spin in opposite directions at tens of thousands of rpm, yet they aren't mechanically connected at all. The gas generator spool reaches roughly 37,500 rpm. Its hot gas drives an independent power turbine at nearly 30,000 rpm, producing up to 1,200 shp. Then there is the gearbox. A compact two stage reduction system has to take that 30,000 rpm input and drop it all the way down to just 1,700 rpm at the propeller, while transmitting roughly 5,000 Nm of torque reliably, flight after flight under all kinds of loads and conditions. All of this happens inside an engines that weighs only about 235 kgs, with interstage turbine temperatures reaching roughly 800°C during takeoff. That combination of extreme speeds, temperatures and mechanical simplicity helped make the PT6 one of the most successful turboprop engines ever built. More than 64,000+ engines have been built and they have accumulated more than 500 million flight hours so far. Whether it is a jet engine or almost any other machine, the really successful designs tend to have one thing in common, the materials, mechanics and overall design work together so well that something incredibly complex ends up looking almost simple. Source, Military Vault

Inside Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67B engine, two turbine systems spin in opposite directions at tens of thousands of rpm, yet they aren't mechanically connected at all. The gas generator spool reaches roughly 37,500 rpm. Its hot gas drives an independent power turbine at nearly 30,000 rpm, producing up to 1,200 shp. Then there is the gearbox. A compact two stage reduction system has to take that 30,000 rpm input and drop it all the way down to just 1,700 rpm at the propeller, while transmitting roughly 5,000 Nm of torque reliably, flight after flight under all kinds of loads and conditions. All of this happens inside an engines that weighs only about 235 kgs, with interstage turbine temperatures reaching roughly 800°C during takeoff. That combination of extreme speeds, temperatures and mechanical simplicity helped make the PT6 one of the most successful turboprop engines ever built. More than 64,000+ engines have been built and they have accumulated more than 500 million flight hours so far. Whether it is a jet engine or almost any other machine, the really successful designs tend to have one thing in common, the materials, mechanics and overall design work together so well that something incredibly complex ends up looking almost simple. Source, Military Vault

Ammanichanda

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Here are the graphics we made at Intel. I work at Nike innovation now so don’t work on them anymore so not sure all the details for this version but basically we used cameras and computer vision to track each athlete in each lane. Because the cameras were calibrated to specific locations and each frame of video timestamped, we could get distance and time data which you can use to get speed, naturally. Feed the data to a 3D rendered stadium and overlay graphics, and voila. We chose to show speed at the end of each “phase” of the race which I based the location on the data we got from testing and common knowledge of the 100m. So stopping at 30m (drive) and 60 (maintenance) and the end was intentional. Looks like a white label indicates a leader at the end of the phase. The green thing at the front of their label looks to indicate if their are accelerating. This is a bit of a deception because you’re always either accelerating or decelerating. So what it’s actually an indication of is if you’re within a certain percentage of your top speed. The green at the end is graded based on that which is why it’s a gradient. Basically shows that Noah not only has the highest tops speed but holds it best. The final view is everyone’s top speed and where they hit it in the race. It’s freaking wild that Tobago hit his top speed so late.

Here are the graphics we made at Intel. I work at Nike innovation now so don’t work on them anymore so not sure all the details for this version but basically we used cameras and computer vision to track each athlete in each lane. Because the cameras were calibrated to specific locations and each frame of video timestamped, we could get distance and time data which you can use to get speed, naturally. Feed the data to a 3D rendered stadium and overlay graphics, and voila. We chose to show speed at the end of each “phase” of the race which I based the location on the data we got from testing and common knowledge of the 100m. So stopping at 30m (drive) and 60 (maintenance) and the end was intentional. Looks like a white label indicates a leader at the end of the phase. The green thing at the front of their label looks to indicate if their are accelerating. This is a bit of a deception because you’re always either accelerating or decelerating. So what it’s actually an indication of is if you’re within a certain percentage of your top speed. The green at the end is graded based on that which is why it’s a gradient. Basically shows that Noah not only has the highest tops speed but holds it best. The final view is everyone’s top speed and where they hit it in the race. It’s freaking wild that Tobago hit his top speed so late.

Ashton Eaton

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