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Meet the planes that find their own way home
Using a technology called required navigation performance (RNP) flight navigation systems are now able to plot a route through a 3 dimensional space, avoiding geographical features like mountains, as well as residential or security no-fly-zones.
What are you working on? How Australian and Kiwi organisations are working to harness new opportunities.
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Ian Dover
Director of Business Development and Commercialisation, Minerals Down Under Flagship, CSIRO
GE’s Chief Economist: Why the Industrial Internet changes everything (Part 2)
GEreports: Let’s talk about manufacturing. What role does geography play in the economics of manufacturing today?
Australia’s new fling with FLNG
Building on success, the 20 billion reasons why we need the RET
Since it was legislated in 2000 the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme has been massively successful in attracting investment in renewable energy sources, putting downward pressure on the wholesale cost of power, and creating diversity of electricity generation to power our future.
GE’s Chief Economist: Why the Industrial Internet changes everything (Part 1)
Marco Annunziata: Jeff Immelt, our Chairman, wanted somebody to help analyse what was going on in the global economy, what’s going on in the world, what are the big trends, the big risks. I was approached by GE, following time in investment banking doing research, and working as a chief economist. It’s really interesting work. Anything to do with economics touches GE directly because it’s such a diverse global company.
The Prelude FLNG: Titan technology rides the waves
In a remote basin about 200 kilometres off the coast of north-western Australia, Shell is building a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant on a scale that almost defies description. Prelude, named after the gas field where it will first operate, is set to rip up the manuals of natural gas production.
Prelude is 488 metres long and 74 metres wide, making it the biggest floating facility ever launched. If you cleared the decks it would comfortably hold four football fields back to back.
From little things big things grow
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Taste the technology in your next glass of shiraz
The art of winemaking is about knowing exactly when to intervene, when to stop the transformation process and harvest the grapes to turn juice into wine.