The GE Brief – November 19, 2021
COVID-19 And A Sunken Ship Didn’t Derail This Power Plant
In March 2019, a cargo ship traveling between Germany and Morocco sank off the coast of France, taking to the bottom core components for the El Bracho Power Station, an important plant GE Gas Power was building in Argentina. What came next to successfully get El Bracho back on track is the stuff of adventure films, with quick decisions, perseverance through a pandemic, close collaboration by teams around the globe and a squadron of some of the world’s largest cargo planes. Read more about that effort here.
GE has more than 7,000 gas turbines installed around the world, producing electricity for millions of people. But those turbines need maintenance, and servicing them faster means not having to ship them halfway around the globe to a shop. A new Advanced Manufacturing and Repair Technology center in Singapore is helping to make that possible. Find out more.
Alisha Davis-Kent, who grew up in an underserved community on the west side of Louisville, Kentucky, is today a test engineer at GE Aviation in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati. Along the way she saw how valuable it is for young people to have access to STEM instruction and mentorship, which is why she’s speaking up on behalf of Next Engineers, a program to increase the diversity of young people in engineering. Cincinnati is one of the four pilot cities in the program. Read more about it here.
The 5 Coolest Things On Earth ?
1. A new test field for high-tech fuel cells that could one day help power zero-emissions aircraft.
2. Tracing previously unknown origins of Alzheimer’s in the human brain.
3. Decoding whales’ language by applying machine learning to current research.
4. Ultrasound and MRI imaging are helping to deliver a cancer immunotherapy drug to the brain.
5. MIT researchers get one step closer to developing a new type of material for semiconductors in high-tech electronics.
— Quote Of The Day —
“Imagination, grit and resilience — I can tell you, for this project that’s really what we had to use.”
— Emmanuel Colin, El Bracho project director
Quote: GE Reports. Images: YPF, GE Gas Power, GE Aviation.