Post #3961593

https://kilovar1959.substack.com/p/equipment-outages-the-hidden-drag Wildfire Smoke, the Gas Turbine’s Enemy A gas turbine is a mass-flow engine: it moves enormous volumes of air to make power, and to protect the precision internals from erosion by airborne grit; it relies on large, high-efficiency filters on its intakes. Wildfire smoke is almost entirely PM10 and PM2.5 — exactly the particle sizes that foul those filters fast. As the filters load up, airflow drops, and so does output.