Closed cycle gas turbines

Claim 1

A HIGH-PRESSURE HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS TURBINE SYSTEM COMPRISING: A ROTATABLE SHAFT ATTACHED TO AND EXTENDING FROM AN ELECTRIC GENERATOR; A CYLINDRICAL SHAFT-COVER AROUND PORTIONS OF THIS SHAFT, TO WHICH COVER ARE ATTACHED ESSENTIAL PARTS ENUMERATED BELOW; A PLURALITY OF SPHERES ONE INSIDE THE OTHER POSITIONED AROUND AND ATTACHED TO THIS SHAFT-COVER, THE OUTERMOST SPHERE CONTAINING STEAM AT A GIVEN PRESSURE, THE NEXT SPHERE TOWARD THE CENTER CONTAINING STEAM AT A HIGHER PRESSURE, THE INMOST SPHERE CONTAINING STEAM AT THE HIGHEST PRESSURE, THE INCREASING PRESSURE OF STEAM AUGMENTING THE STEEL IN CONTAINING THE INCREASED PRESSURE WITHIN EACH SPHERE TOWARD THE CENTER; A PLURALITY OF STEAM COMPRESSORS, ONE LESS IN NUMBER THAN THE SPHERES, EACH ATTACHED ROTATABLY TO THE SHAFT NEAR THE OPENING IN A SPHERE, EXCEPT THE OUTERMOST SPHERE; A PLURALITY OF STEAM-DIVERSION HEMISPHERES, ONE LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF SPHERES, EACH FITTED WITH THIN RADIATOR-LIKE LAMELLAE, ATTACHED TO THE SHAFT-COVER, AND PLACED BETWEEN EACH PAIR OF SPHERES EXCEPT THE OUTERMOST; PIPES FROM AN OUTSIDE SOURCE INTO EACH OF THE INTERSPHERE SPACES EXCEPT THE OUTERMOST, FOR BRINGING A FUEL-AIR MIXTURE INTO THESE SPACES AND INTO THE INMOST SPHERE; BURNERS FOR THIS FUEL-AIR MIXTURE, ATTACHED TO SAID PIPES; EXHAUST CHANNELS LEADING FROM THESE INTER-SPHERE SPACES AND FROM WITHIN THE INMOST SPHERE TO THE OUTSIDE, TO CARRY THE WASTE PRODUCTS OF COMBUSTION OF THE FUEL-AIR MIXTURE; A GAS TURBINE EXTENDING FROM WITHIN THE INMOST SPHERE THROUGH THE UPPER PORTION OF EACH OF THE SPHERES TO THE OUTSIDE, THE ROTOR BLADES BEING ATTACHED ROTATABLY TO THE SHAFT AND THE STATOR BLADES BEING ATTACHED TO A TURBINE SHELL WHICH IS ATTACHED IN TURN TO EACH OF SPHERES WITHIN WHICH IT IS SITUATED; AND ALL ESSENTIAL VALVE AND CONTROL MEANS.