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Nov. 11, 1979 - General Electric engineers announced today that they had successfully put the key component of an advanced superconducting generator thought its most severe qualifying test spinning its 13 foot long, one and one half ton rotor at 3, 600 revolutions per minute while cooled to a frigid 452 F below zero. the tests at the GE Research and development center in Schenectady, NY. confirmed that the experimental generator could be able to produce as much electricity as a conventional generator twice its size and weight. Following one of the tests, Dr. Trifon E. Laskaris inspects the outer assembly of the rotor. When completed in 1981, the GE generator will be able tor produce 18 million watts of alternating current enough electricity for a community of 20, 000 people

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