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.
These are typically gas-fired turbines, much like those used for jet aircraft engines that are connected to generators.
At a time when the world generally is cutting budgets, General Electric Co. ( GE) recently announced that sales of its huge-ticket items like jet engines, gas turbines, energy infrastructure and locomotives are really doing very well.
Moreover, smaller, more powerful generators and microturbines (mini- jet engines that are fueled by natural gas) are being developed that will skip existing power grids altogether, or be new sources of power to others.
Our work is really around really recruiting high-tech manufacturing, resources that help us make jet engines and gas turbines.
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The 6-acre site uses three gas turbines, cousins of those that (using jet fuel instead) go on a Boeing 747.
Or is it going to be a balanced approach that includes modest reforms to strengthen entitlement programs and changes in our tax code -- tax reform that simplifies it, and ends preferences for the oil and gas industries, for example, or corporate jet makers, or hedge fund managers who -- billionaires who pay lower rates of taxes than their secretaries?
"The proof was seen over the weekend: tear gas canisters marked 'made in America' fired at protesters, US-supplied F-16 jet fighters streaking over central Cairo, " he wrote.
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And when the Speaker says the discussion about revenue is closed, again, ask Americans around the country whether they agree that it is better economic policy for middle-class Americans to lose their jobs, or oil and gas companies to have their subsidies reduced or corporate jet owners to have their loophole closed.
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