Re: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles : "Dungeons & Dragons"

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:44:25 -0000, pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (PV) wrote:

>Forge <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>>Not all third-world countries are broke. She sold them primarily for 
>>those countries' "official" airlines or government jets. We're talking 
>>y'know, Panama, Belize, Ecuador - okay, they're kinda on the border of 
>>the definition of "third world." But she also sold a couple for use as 
>>emergency power generation.
>
>I seem to remember hearing that natural-gas based peaker plants use
>something a lot like a jet engine. *

Gas turbines of some stripe, no doubt.
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