Air Turbine

An air turbine is a turbine driven by airflow. Various forms include:

  • Wind turbine, a renewable energy source
  • Ram air turbine (RAT), an emergency power system for aircraft
  • Small air turbines, used as high-speed pneumatic motors in tools such as dentist's drills.

Famous quotes containing the word air:

    Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)