Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech

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China has unveiled a revolutionary power generator that uses supercritical CO2 instead of steam, boasting higher efficiency and utilizing waste heat, potentially upending traditional power technology.

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Claim Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech
AI inference Bullish · 76%
Generated 2025-11-25 23:00

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China has launched a first-of-its-kind power generator that works with carbon dioxide instead of steam, like traditional generators in power plants. Perhaps more importantly, however, the new generator works with waste heat and boasts a much higher efficiency than existing ones at doing that. According to the company that designed it, the generator is the start of a new era, the South China Morning Post reported. Normally, thermal power generators work in one of two ways, both relying on heat to turn a turbine. In coal power plants, the burning…

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Original article published by OilPrice.com on November 26, 2025. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.

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