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Renewables

Rock And Roll: A Massive AC/DC Converter The Size Of Arc De Triomphe Installed At Sea

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 11, 2017
A few days ago, Sibylle Stefan experienced a major milestone on what’s already been a remarkable personal journey. From a dock in Warnemünde in Northeast Germany, the GE project manager watched as tugboats began the slow process of moving her biggest job out to sea: a yellow block the size of the Arc De Triomphe that will help connect offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the land.
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Tiny Bubbles, Big Impact: How A Hydro Power Plant Could Help Save A North Carolina Lake

Bruce Watson
July 11, 2017
From its banks, North Carolina’s Tuckertown Lake appears to be the perfect suburban oasis. Just a short drive from Charlotte, it’s listed as one of the top fishing spots in the state. But below the surface, it’s another story. Decades of farm and construction runoff have nourished huge clumps of oxygen-depleting black algae, locally known as “snot grass,” that threaten the lake’s population of bass and other fish.
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Renewables

A Man With A Plan: Kwanza Hall Wants To Power All Of Atlanta With Renewables

Kwanza Hall Atlanta City Council District 2
June 14, 2017

In May, Atlanta committed to being powered by 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, making it one of the largest of the 26 other U.S. cities to take the pledge. While it’s big news for the nationwide movement toward renewable energy, many Atlanta residents may not view the shift as a priority. Atlanta City Council Member Kwanza Hall explains how he’s getting buy-in from citizens to go green.

 
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Catching A Breeze: GE ‘In The Wild’ Reveals How Clean Wind Power Travels Across Oceans

May 26, 2017
It’s hard enough to build a wind farm in the middle of the blustery North Sea. To be of any use, engineers must link up the wind turbines with massive transformers tethered to land by miles-long underwater cables that carry electrons to customers.
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Renewables

Winds Of Change: Offshore Electricity Powers First American Homes

May 17, 2017
The small island sits off the coast of Rhode Island between the northeastern tip of New York’s Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. There, like the archetypal New Englander, it cuts a hardy and stout profile, with chin out, to face the battering North Atlantic Ocean, the bruising wind and the weather it brings.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 05, 2017
Engineers at MIT built wireless beacons that can track your health, their peers in Pennsylvania used gene editing to shut down the replication of an HIV virus in a living animal for the first time, and scientists in Germany deciphered hominid DNA from just dirt. Make no bones about it — science is making progress.
 

Take A Walk On The Wi-Fi

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Connected Machines

Why North America’s Largest Independent Renewable Energy Provider Is Betting On Digital

Amy Francetic Invenergy Future Fund Managing Director
John Tough Partner
May 04, 2017

If one of the world’s largest independent developers of renewable energy, now a venture investor, is bullish on a new technology, industry watchers listen. Invenergy, which develops, owns and operates large-scale renewable energy generation facilities in North America, Latin America, Japan and Europe, explains why it’s betting on businesses that involve energy’s digital applications.

 

 
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Green Day: GE Grabs Solar Panels And Shovels For Global Earth Day Celebration

April 26, 2017
Employees making steam turbines at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, recently realized they had an untapped energy resource outside their doorstep: a huge parking lot (see top image). So, in honor of Earth Day, they raised a metal canopy and covered the entire lot with 6,800 solar panels capable of generating 2.3 megawatts. They calculate this solar farm will generate enough power annually to cut electric utility bills at the research campus by 10 percent and save $2.5 million over 25 years.
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Renewables

Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
April 20, 2017
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7 million inhabitants, fits on an island sliced off from the mainland by the waterway and its tributaries. Just west of the city, the river’s surface is so wide it could pass for a sea.
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Renewables

Catching More Wind: GE Acquires World’s Largest Turbine Blade Maker

Maggie Sieger
April 20, 2017
But AR is already making an impact.
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