At the end of 1986, 397 nuclear power plants with a total of 274 GW were in operation worldwide. Their electricity generation was equivalent to burning 500 million tons of coal or 7 million barrels per day of oil, roughly 40 percent of the OPEC output. When the 134GW under construction are...

The demand for electricity is expected to double from 1990 to 2020. This will require 4000 GW of new capacity to be constructed worldwide, both as additions and replacements. Technical progress has made new conventional power plants more efficient and environment friendly than existing ones, and...

The externally-fired gas turbine unites two advantages. On the one hand, the utilisation of the waste heat from the turbine in a recuperative process and, on the other, the possibility of burning "dirty" fuel. In particular, the EFGT opens a new option to utilise biomass for...