Douglas J Beck

Gas-Turbine Regenerators

Regenerative gas turbines are attractive alternatives to diesel engines and spark ignition engines for automobiles and to diesel engines and combined-cycle en gines for power generation. Theory indicates regenerative gas turbines should achieve higher thermal efficiencies than those of diesel engine...

Growing Up in Aspen: Life after the Quiet Years

"More memories of a great childhood with many friends, loving parents and a real community of people who knew when to help and when to tell your parents." This is a follow-on to my First Edition of "Growing Up in Aspen - Life After the Quiet Years" This edition has all new content with more great ch...

Growing Up in Aspen: "Life after the Quiet Years"

Much like many small towns, when the kids did something wrong the parents usually knew before the act was even committed. There was no hiding anything from the "collective" parent population. This being a disadvantage is stating the obvious, but there was an upside. Speaking specifically to my situa...

Early Aspen: (Images of America)

Until 1879, the Roaring Fork Valley was home to a band of Colorado Ute Indians. All of that changed in the summer and fall of that year, when two prospecting teams came to the valley to stake their claims, some of which went on to produce millions of dollars of silver. Within five years, Aspen was h...

Gas-Turbine Regenerators

Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders