Illustrates GE's Commitment to Drive a New Level of 'Leaner, Faster' Performance for DTS Customers
FLORENCE, ITALY---February 3, 2014---GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) today announced the launch of its new Downstream Technology Solutions (DTS) business to more efficiently supply equipment and services to the $10 billion refining, petrochemical, industrial and distributed gas segments.
The world's energy needs are in rampant ascent. Despite the U.S. boom in shale gas production and advanced technologies unlocking previously untapped global energy reserves, the International Energy Agency is predicting that the demand for energy will continue to grow by one-third by 2035.
When Typhoon Haiyan hit central Philippines last November, it killed 6,000 people and more than 1,700 remain missing. The storm destroyed one million homes, leaving many residents stranded in vast tent cities.
Today, large portions of the country still lack access to electricity and clean water. "Without power we cannot have water," says Ben Rodriguez, disaster response chief in Bogo City. "Our water is dependent on power that pumps the water. I think that rehabilitation will take about 10 years without electricity."
This week on Txchnologist, we looked at a wide world of advances, from better ways to predict earthquakes to insect-inspired computing. First, University of Illinois engineers announced they developed a technique to create 3-D images of living cells without disturbing them.
They help us stay connected, but could your smartphone also help weather forecasters predict a coming storm?
New research suggests that cell phones carried around in pockets and purses could be used by meteorologists to improve weather forecasts.
This is the time of the year when the eyes of fans and media are trained squarely on the best two teams in football.
When a severe heat wave gripped Buenos Aires last month, overworked ACs triggered waves of blackouts that rolled over the metropolis for weeks. With little visibility on which neighborhoods would be affected and for how long, thousands of residents were left in the dark - literally and figuratively. "The uncertainty and the lack of information were almost as depressing as the blackouts," Celeste Acosta, a local community manager, told Smart Planet.
This is a 2011 photo posted by Fermilab of the Department of Energy's COUPP dark matter experiment, which is designed to detect the mysterious stuff that is thought to make up a large part of the universe's mass. Dark matter rarely interacts with our sensible world, neither emitting nor absorbing radiation.
