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GE Research Demonstrates Breakthrough MW Scale Modular, Multi-Level Wind Power Converter

March 12, 2021
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Renewables

A Sea Of Green Power Beneath The Waves? Tidal Electricity Is Becoming A Reality Off The Coast Of Wales

December 01, 2016
Britain’s coast is way more than white cliffs, cold beaches and crisps-stealing seagulls. It also boasts some of the highest tidal ranges in the world, measuring between 23 and 40 feet. Twice a day, like clockwork, the moon’s gravity makes the seas ebb and flow. All that moving water is also a huge reservoir of reliable, renewable and carbon-free electricity. “Tidal could potentially supply up to 12 percent of the U.K.'s energy generation,” says Mark Elborne, president and CEO of GE UK.
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This Ship Has Sailed: U.S. Navy Commissions An All-Electric Stealth Destroyer Zumwalt For Service

Tomas Kellner
October 15, 2016

The U.S. Navy has commissioned for service the USS Zumwalt, its largest and most advanced stealth destroyer. The ceremony took place in Baltimore on Saturday.
Named after the late Adm. Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt Jr., the 610-foot-long, all-electric "multi-mission" ship was built at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine. The Navy estimates the 15,600-ton vessel can hit a target at a range of more than 60 miles. It also has a wave-piercing tumblehome design and a unique superstructure that make it less visible to enemy radar at sea.

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Solar Power

Something New Under the Sun: GE’s Industrial Grade Inverter Takes Solar Power to a New High

Tomas Kellner
September 10, 2015
Try as he might, Vlatko Vlatkovic won’t make the sun shine brighter. So when he wanted to make a more efficient solar farm, he and his team had to go for the next best thing: a gray plastic box the size of a small hut called the inverter. “It takes direct current from the PV panels and turns it into alternating current that you can use,” says Vlatkovic, chief engineering officer at GE Power Conversion. “Since the inverter system also represents as much as 20 percent of the capital costs of the farm, you could make a huge impact if you made it more efficient.”
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"Moon Power" is Here. First Subsea Tidal Power Plant to Go Live in France in 2015, UK is Next

May 29, 2015
Most people might still consider the idea of using tides to generate electricity as outlandish as a trip to the moon. But starting this year, the concept is quickly becoming reality. “We went to the moon 46 years ago, and now we are using it to produce energy,” says Frederic Navarro, project director at GE Power Conversion in Belfort, France. “That’s because the moon’s gravity tugs on the ocean and produces predictable tides that run like clockwork, twice a day.”
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From Zero to 5,000 mph in Less Than a Second? All-Electric Zumwalt Destroyer May Carry an Electromagnetic Railgun

May 12, 2015
The U.S. Navy’s new Zumwalt class of stealth destroyers is seeking to redefine sea power. Quite literally.
In the past, ships used most of their installed power for propulsion, with the engines and propellers directly connected through large and complex gearboxes. But the all-electric Zumwalt vessels will come equipped with so-called “integrated power systems (IPS),“ designed to route electricity around the ship in an instant, eliminating mechanical gearboxes and allowing the power to be used for both propulsion and other electrical systems – including powerful new weapons.
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Ships Ahoy: GE’s New Marine Business Leaves Port

January 29, 2015
Last fall, the British Royal Navy commissioned a powerful new high-tech frigate so silent that it would be able to sneak up on submarines undetected. The ship, called the Type 26 frigate, has been designated to become “the workhorse” of the British fleet.
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Keep Calm and Carry On: This Software Helps Hold Ships Steady in Heavy Seas

October 29, 2014

One of the many characters in Melville’s Moby Dick is Bulkington, an intrepid sailor for whom “land seemed scorching to his feet” and who on a “shivering winter’s night” thrust the mighty ship Pequod’s “vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves,” as it set out on its fatal whale hunting expedition.

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Edison’s Last Laugh?: Tesla Beat Him in the War of the Currents but His Idea is Fighting Back

February 28, 2014
Like the faint rumble of a distant battle, the symbol AC/DC lives quietly on millions of power adapters and, more noisily, in the name of an Aussie hard rock band. A century ago, however, it symbolized a titanic clash that pitched Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla in the War of Currents. It was the one big fight that Edison lost.
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How to Parallel Park a Ship on Stormy Seas? There is a School for It.

September 27, 2012

A storm is brewing 200 miles off the coast of Brazil in the foamy swell and chop of the Atlantic Ocean. The sea in the Santos Basin is dark—and miles deep. It’s tough drilling for the rig workers who live out here. But today, they’re battening down the hatches and hoping their promised supplies arrive before the tempest.

They’re in luck. Both their supply vessel and drill ship are fitted with GE’s dynamic positioning (DP) technology. It allows their captains to plot an almost inch-perfect course through rough seas, until their hulls bob next to one another like two mallards.

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