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The GE Brief: March 2, 2021

POWERING ATLAS’ LIFT   The global freight carrier Atlas Air Worldwide announced last week a quartet of new Boeing 747-8 freighters it ordered from Boeing in January will be powered by…

Aerospace

Freight Of The World: Global Cargo Airline Picks GE Engines To Power New Boeing 747 Jets

The global freight carrier Atlas Air Worldwide said on Tuesday a quartet of new Boeing 747-8 freighters it ordered from Boeing in January will be powered by GE jet engines. The deal, which includes…

The GE Brief: February 26, 2021

MAGNETIC FIELD OF DREAMS A discovery made in the coldest cold more than a century ago is heating up GE’s wind turbine research. In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes found that electrons,…

Healthcare

Beating the Odds: Prenatal Ultrasound Gives Babies With Heart Defects A Fighting Chance

Unlike many newborns, little Shriyan couldn’t spend much time with his mom in the delivery room. Doctors at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kerala, India, rushed the critically ill boy to…

Innovation

How Cool Is This: Superconducting Generators Aim To Unlock More Offshore Wind Power At Lower Cost

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes made a very cool discovery. Electrons usually lose energy as they careen through an electrical conductor, but he noticed something funny happen in a…

patents

Innovation in the UAE: Team Including Emirati GE Engineer Earns Patent for Gas Turbine Leak Detection Method

Most of us don’t stress too much about tiny vibrations felt in our car, washing machine or fan, or miniscule leaks in a showerhead or faucet. But for mechanical engineers like GE Gas Power’s Bouria…

Energy

Packing Power: Keen to Cut Emissions, Malaysia Becomes First Country To Fire Up GE 9HA.02 Turbine

Emerging economies in Asia face a dilemma. They need more electricity to power economic growth, but they also want to cut emissions from coal they have relied on for decades. Switching from coal to…

Renewable energy

Tipping Point: 3D-Printed Blade Parts Can Help Take Wind Power To The Next Level

  GE has been 3D printing parts for jet engines and gas turbines. In the recent years, the technology also entered another field: wind power. GE Renewable Energy, together with…

The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

DNA nanobots that build themselves. A “magical” material that keeps physicists guessing. Lucid dreamers transmitting Morse code in their sleep. This week’s coolest things are much more than meets the…

The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

A virus that can sniff out and kill bad bacteria in the gut; sustainable hydrogen gas from sewage; and a 3D printer that adapts on the fly. This week’s coolest things are as dirty as they are dynamic…