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Renewables

Supply And Demand: An Internet Of Things App Like This One Could Help Bring More Renewables To Your Home

Maggie Sieger
January 30, 2018
Hackathons, the whirlwind competitions that challenge developers to solve complex problems in a short period, are like the Olympics for computer programmers. Teams compete for prizes, professional accolades and bragging rights among their peers. But one week last fall, they set their sights on a loftier goal: saving Mother Earth.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 12, 2018
"Scientists at Duke University flexed human muscles grown from stem cells for the first time, a thumbnail-sized sensor connected to a smartphone app can track your sun exposure, and another device can sniff out counterfeit homebrew in your expensive drink. Here’s a toast to science.
 

 

Bioengineering Is Flexing Muscles

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GE Is Helping Build A Huge Wind Farm On Santa’s Doorstep, Europe’s Largest

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 07, 2017

In Markbygden forest in the northern Sweden, the temperature drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius in the winter and bitter winds blow. That makes this area 60 miles south of the arctic circle uncomfortable for humans, but the sparsely populated region, where real reindeer roam, is perfect for a wind farm.

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Renewables

Amazon Turns To Wind To Power Its Business

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 19, 2017
Amazon may be the largest online retailer in the world, but the company is focused on having a positive impact on the ground as well. With an ever-expanding global network of fulfillment and data centers, Amazon has a growing demand for energy. Amazon also has an equal appetite for and commitment to renewable energy. In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud computing business, has a long-term commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for its global infrastructure footprint.
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Solar

Solar Power Is Becoming Cheap Enough To Compete With Fossil Fuels In The Gulf

October 08, 2017
Dubai has so many sunny days—more than 300 on average every year—it seems like a no-brainer for the city to use some of those rays to power its many glittering skyscrapers, massive malls and luxurious hotels. But that hasn’t been the case. Until recently, it was still cheaper to generate a kilowatt from oil or natural gas here.
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A Massive Wind Investment Restores Spain’s Standing As A Leader In Renewable Energy

Maggie Sieger
August 24, 2017
The dry “cierzo” that blows through Aragón, Spain, is so strong that one ancient Roman scholar warned that the wind — which regularly reaches more than 100 miles per hour — could upend armies. Now Spain will use its power to fight climate change with what will be one of Europe’s highest-capacity wind farms.
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Powering The Philippines – Policy Framework And Directives To Drive Industry Expansion

August 23, 2017
The recent GE-organized Powering the Philippines event raised awareness, and debate, from the more than 250 attending energy leaders on the opportunities, and issues, confronting the sector in the near term future.
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Part 1 Transformation: Change in the Energy Ecosystem

August 21, 2017
The global energy ecosystem is changing. That is an ecosystem where collectively the world spends over US$6 trillion annually. That amounts to roughly 6% of global GDP.
 

GE is a company with world-leading experience operating throughout this ecosystem, whether that’s upstream production or generation and delivery. This is a landscape we understand, and it’s a landscape which is experiencing huge transformation. Here are 9 key areas to look out
for.
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mobile

He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Mobile Solar Power Plant Charges Gadgets On The Go

August 09, 2017
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries the hard way in the late 1990s while serving in the Bolivian army.
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future of energy

Why We Should Take A Super-Critical Look At Coal Financing

Karan Bhatia GE
July 26, 2017
As one of the largest energy technology companies in the world, we at GE believe climate change is real and that more should be done to transition to clean energy. We have put our money where our mouth is and developed one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the world, investing over $20 billion in clean tech R&D over the last 12 years.
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