The power plant of the future. (1975)

One prototype unit of a new plant at the Institute for high temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

View of a portion of the high-voltage power lines.

View of transformer substations, thermal power plants, components.

General view of turbine hall thermal power plant.

The work of one of the boilers of the power plant.

The smoke from the chimneys of power stations, stretching into the sky, General view of the plant.

Newsreel 1973: working oil pumps.

The announcement about the lack of fuel at filling stations in Western Europe.

Men manually hauling the car with the help of ropes.

Closed gas station on the roads of Western Europe.

Horse-drawn carriage on the streets of Rome.

People are pushing cars that run oil rigs.

General view of illuminated city at night (top).

Book cover Carnot S. Reflections on the motive power of fire", with portrait of the author.

The formula for the efficiency of heat engines, Carnot deduced.

The fire in the furnace of the power plant.

View of the machine room.

The smoke from the chimney of the power plant.

Demonstration of experience with a charged ball of electricity and a candle flame.

Demonstration of the experience with plasma jet by addition of an additive and the cross current in the plasma.

Demonstration of electric current using a generator.

Of the plasma jet and the moving wire of the electric generator.

Receiving electric current through the plasma (animation).

A new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator.

The combustion chamber of the MHD generator.

The appearance of the plasma channel of the MHD generator and collector contacts.

Preparation plant with an MHD-generator to the next experiment in the Institute for high temperatures, General view of the installation, Institute employees at work.

The leaders of the experiment watch its progress on the screen, the overall appearance of the room the control room of the Institute.

One of the employees takes the command into the microphone.

View of the installation, the faces of the scientists, one of them includes a switch to start.

Kind of a running installation.

The leaders of the experiment over the control console.

General view of the installation.

View of a section of transmission line.