Hydrogen Turbine Turns Explosions Into Electricity

Hydrogen Turbine Turns Explosions Into Electricity

For decades, gas turbines have wasted up to half their power just squeezing air before burning fuel. Now researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have flipped that logic: instead of a mechanical compressor, they use controlled detonation waves to create pressure inside the combustion chamber itself, and for the first time they have turned that violent chemistry directly into electricity. The prototype ran for 303 seconds, beating NAS…