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Solar

The California Duck Must Die (But It's Not What You Think)

Kristin Kloberdanz
December 13, 2016
Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem already has a popular name: The California Duck Curve.
Here’s why. When legislators in the Golden State passed a climate-change law mandating that California gets a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020, they were hoping to encourage residents to install solar photovoltaic cells.
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Minds-Machines

Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet Hackathon

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 05, 2016
Arnold Spielberg in 1961. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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medicine

Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out Of New Technology

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 27, 2016

In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new high-tech diagnostic equipment.

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Minds-Machines

The Internet Of Electricity: GE And Exelon Are Crunching Data Generated By Power Plants

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 18, 2016
Every day, Exelon energy company produces up to 32,700 megawatts of electricity that supplies power to millions of customers across the United States. But the Chicago-based company produces more than just power. Its turbines and generators also spin out megabytes of data that different software programs then digest and comb for insights.
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Minds-Machines

This Astronomer’s Idea Just Opened A Universe Of New Opportunities For GE’s Digital Growth

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 18, 2016
Top: Arnold Spielberg at his house in Los Angeles in 2016. Image credit: GE Reports. Above: Spielberg helped build computers that monitored steel mills, steam turbines and other technology. His GE-225 machine even correctly predicted election results. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 18, 2016
I joined GE’s computer department in Schenectady, New York, in 1955. My first job was designing circuits for the first computer process controls. The department was just starting. I stayed at the YMCA and visited my family, which was still back in New Jersey, on the weekends.
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Minds-Machines

This Is What We Call Data Mining: Software Is Helping This Platinum Operator Boost Production

November 16, 2016
As operations manager at a South African platinum mine, Percy French has faced huge challenges over the past few years because of volatility in commodity prices. The price of platinum has dropped in half, and at the same time the value of the South African currency, the rand, has fallen precipitously. To keep his mine profitable, French had to look for new ways to make it more efficient. He found sensors and software.
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Minds-Machines

GE Takes Predix From The Cloud To The Edge

November 16, 2016
AS: Once I saw an Erector Set in a hardware store. I went inside and asked the owner if I could use it to make a steam shovel and put it in the shop window so they could sell more Erector Sets. He grudgingly agreed and I sat in the back every day after school until it was finished. Later, I brought my mom over and showed her what I built. Sure enough, I got the construction set for Hanukkah. But I was also influenced by science fiction. There were twins in our neighborhood who read one of the first sci-fi magazines, called Astounding Stories of Science and Fact.
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Minds-Machines

You Say Tomato, I Say Terabyte: These Dutch Fruits Of The Vine Are Being Ripened By Software

November 15, 2016
Dutchman Ferdi van Elswijk has fond memories of the summer of 1987, when he was 11 years old and working part-time in his uncle’s 1.9-hectare commercial greenhouse, filling dispensers with sugar water to feed bumblebees who were helping to pollinate tomato plants.
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Minds-Machines

What's Cooking? How Bit Stew, GE's Latest Digital Acquisition, Spices Up The Industrial Internet Of Things

November 15, 2016
Arnold Spielberg: I was always interested in electricity. I liked working with magnets, and I liked working with radios. I knew about Edison and Tesla, but not in detail. I got my first crystal radio set when I was 9. It’s basically a diode that can detect radio waves, and I played around with it. But I never could get it working until a radio repairman who lived next door helped me set it up.
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