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[[Narrator] The Greenville area actually has the highest per capita number of engineers]
[of anywhere in the United States,]
[and it's one of the reasons why GE Engineering for Energy ]
[is located here in Greenville.]
[[Richard Stanley] The facility we're in right now is the world's largest ]
[gas turbine manufacturing facility, and it's also the headquarters of GE engineering]
[[James Sutton] Our Greenville site is one of the largest exporters]
[in the state of South Carolina.]
[Over 90% of our business that we did in 2008]
[and over 85% of the business we're doing in 2009 will be exported to countries]
[all over the world, so in order to serve that global market, we utilize a global supply chain.]
[So anytime you look at a gas turbine, you could be looking at one component]
[is perhaps sourced and machined in China.]
[Another component may come from Brazil.]
[Other components may come from eastern Europe.]
[[Richard Stanley] This year will be the largest investment in engineering and technology]
[in our history of the GE energy business,]
[which goes back 100 years to the Thomas Edison days.]
[It's very important to push new technology into new cleaner,]
[environmentally sound technologies and do it fast.]
[The need has never been greater for carbon dioxide separation,]
[gasification technologies for the coal industry, higher efficiency gas turbines,]
[and lower cost materials too, so that we not only get better performance]
[out of the machines that we design and build, but that they cost less,]
[and are more affordable for the country and the world.]
[There's not a better place to be than at GE Energy, and Greenville plays ]
