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The GE Brief: January 12, 2021

GE Reports Staff
January 12, 2021

POWER MOVES
 
South Korea has set a goal: The country aims to go carbon-neutral by the middle of the century. One step on the road to 2050 calls for increasing the country’s renewable energy capacity to 42.7 gigawatts by 2025, up from 12.7 GW last year. Another involves turning from coal to liquefied natural gas, which can help deliver power on demand and support the development of renewables such as wind and solar. As GE outlined last month in a white paper, gas power plants — including those that use the company’s highly efficient HA class of gas turbines — have tremendous potential to play a role in the future of energy.
 
The right mix: GE technology is at the heart of several new South Korean power plants — such as a combined-cycle plant in Naepo City, about 65 miles south of the capital of Seoul, which will use the company’s advanced 7HA.02 gas turbine. Gas-burning power plants can produce 40% less carbon than coal-burning plants, but that number can go as high as 60% in a combined-cycle plant, in which exhaust heat from the gas turbine creates steam that can then be used in a steam turbine. Those numbers add up, said Jongsoo Kim, country sales leader for GE Gas Power Korea: “Considering the geographical, topographical and resource-wise conditions of South Korea, rather than competing, we see the shared roles of gas and renewables as essential to the country’s future power needs.”
 
Learn more here about how GE turbines are helping South Korea meet its climate goals.

Liz and Heather and Rowan

THE GOOD FIGHT
 
In 2014, Liz Satterfield had her eye on the future: She had a good job at GE Healthcare in Wisconsin, and was planning a wedding with her fiancée, Heather Dooley. But in February that year, a cloud moved over the bright horizon when Satterfield discovered a lump in her breast that turned out to be cancer. It wasn’t entirely a surprise: Her grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her mother died of it in 2012. “There was part of me that was like, I knew this was my destiny,” said Satterfield, who was 41 at the time of her diagnosis. “But I didn’t think it would be so young.” Satterfield and Dooley, who works at GE Healthcare, sprang into action, beginning a married life together just as Satterfield was beginning medical treatment. In the years since, the cancer hasn’t gone away — but Satterfield hasn’t stopped moving forward.
 
In sickness and health: Though Satterfield was declared cancer-free in 2014, her disease returned in 2016, and has continued to spread. She and Dooley realized they had to steel themselves for the long haul, which included figuring out an immediate question: Should they go ahead with plans to have a baby? “We ultimately ended up saying that any parent could die at any time for any reason,” Dooley said — the answer was yes. And in January 2018, just 10 days after Satterfield underwent treatment for cancer that had spread to her brain, Dooley delivered a baby girl. Named Rowan, she’s now almost 3 years old — and gives both of her mothers a reason to push on. “I want to see older Rowan,” Satterfield said. “I want to know her.”
 
Learn more here about Dooley and Satterfield’s journey.

GE Ai conference

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE

The coronavirus pandemic has sped the adoption of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in healthcare. That’s the topic of a Washington Post Live webinar on Wednesday, sponsored by GE, that will feature some of the nation’s top thinkers and innovators in the healthcare space discussing the promise of medical data analytics and machines that are transforming medical care as we know it. Everett Cunningham, GE Healthcare’s president and CEO of the U.S. and Canada, will be there, along with some other familiar faces — including Dr. Rachael Callcut, who has worked with GE on AI software that can help enable the swift detection of life-threatening conditions.

The conversation takes place Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. EST. Register here.

 

COOLEST THINGS ON EARTH ?

1. The Fine Print

Scientists in Germany developed a 3D-printing technique called xolography, which uses intersecting beams of light to create a solid object.

2. Squid Pro Quo

Squid and their relatives — octopi and cuttlefish — inspired researchers to create new materials that change shape and color when exposed to light.

3. Anybody Out There?

Astronomers picked up an “intriguing radio wave emission” coming from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun — which is thought to be orbited by planets that could sustain life.

Read more here about this week’s Coolest Things on Earth.

 

— QUOTE OF THE DAY —

“The one thing I have control over is my attitude and how I react to things. I want what time I have to be as positive and as enjoyable as possible.”

Liz Satterfield

 

Quote: GE Reports. Images: GE Gas Power, Dooley-Satterfield family.

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