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Since its discovery, the diesel engine has been re-invented and developed vastly to improve on its performance and efficiency, while simultaneously increasing its range of applications. One of its most common uses today is in diesel generators used to provide backup or standby power to facilities and systems in case of power failure. Modern diesel generators are designed to monitor electric...
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There is nothing wrong with using diesel engines. They have been an industrial mainstay for more than a century and have proven to be reliable and perform admirably. As part of our broad offering, we sell and lease them for many applications, so we know how well they perform. For remote oil and gas drilling and production locations, however, there is an alternative to be considered. ...
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Most folks at first blush will likely think it's false that the U.S. is the largest oil producer now. Saudi Arabia has long held the seat, as well as the combined market power of OPEC. However, times have changed, and so have the methods of how oil is found and secured from underground. The days of straight drilling after testing and finding large deposits horizontally under firm ground are long...
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History of the Generator The generator we know today got its start in the 1860s-70s. Before then, Michael Faraday had discovered a way to generate electricity through electromagnetic induction, but his discovery proved expensive and impractical in a world that didn’t rely much on electricity. Generators were not well-known until about 1871, when scientists like Zenobe-Theophile...
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When most people are asked about where energy comes from, the most obvious sources come to mind first. Electrical power comes from a nearby generator plant, and gasoline comes from imported oil. These are the two most common sources of energy most of us know about and think we know where they are generated. However, these two categories do not make up all the energy used in the U.S. The...
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"Ghost towns may not stay dead with oil nearby, but when energy money leaves, warmer places are likelier to survive." I recently read an interesting article that former ghost town Helena, Texas is back from the dead thanks to the shale boom. For anyone that visits these shale plays in Texas, and similarly in North Dakota, its quite obvious how overwhelmed little towns previously left for...
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The House of Representatives leadership decided not to decide, in the manner of true lame duck session. Rather than voting to extend the charter for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which was set to expire on the last day of September, instead Congress, indicating little more than a soft commitment, extended the charter for nine months to June 30, 2015. This decision was much to the...
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