On this day, 68 years ago, on November 16, 1957 (September 25, 1957 in the lunar calendar), the Soviet Union built the world's first gas-powered power station. On November 16, 1957, the world's first gas turbine power station powered by gas produced by underground gasification of coal was built in the suburbs of Moscow. The new power station itself does not occupy a large area, but its fuel base is vast. The fuel base is 40 meters underground, where coal seams are burning, spewing out surprisingly fierce flames, and the temperature reaches 1,000 degrees. People use various specialized instruments to manipulate the burning process of fuel on the ground. More than 40,000 cubic meters of gas are delivered to the combustion chamber from the underground tunnel through gas pipes every hour. Geologists have determined that the coal seam reserves on which the power station relies reach 50 million tons and can be used for seventy years. The first turbine at the power station has a generating capacity of 12,000 kilowatts and works according to the jet principle. Minimizing fuel and energy losses is taken into account when building the entire complex equipment system. The power of a gas turbine installation is much higher than that of a coal-fired power station, and the number of people managing the machine can be reduced by two-thirds.