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Handheld ultrasound aids patient care, prehospital and in the air

Natalie Filatoff
May 24, 2018
Airborne within five minutes of receiving an emergency call, New Zealand’s Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service is equipped with life rafts, stretchers, portable oxygen, medical packs, a humidicrib, a Breeze Eastern winch with 270kg (595 pounds)  lifting capacity, GPS, radio directional finders, Nitesun helicopter searchlights, night-vision goggles and its latest investment — a handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare called Vscan Extend.
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Tapping the Reservoir for grid-scale energy storage

Jane Nicholls
May 23, 2018
The increase of renewable generation connecting to the grid — GE turbines are powering five new wind farms coming online in Australia in 2018 alone — brings with it the urgent need for reliable, utility-scale energy storage systems. Ensuring that the grid is stable and electricity supplies are uninterrupted with ever-greater penetration of renewables has arguably been the biggest hurdle in the decarbonisation of the world’s power generation.
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Monash Grid Innovation Hub combines power with passion

Natalie Filatoff
April 18, 2018
Electricity is the most hotly contested topic in Australia, given the country’s ageing energy infrastructure, rising electricity prices, supply volatility, changing demand and the imperative to decarbonise the sector for the sake of the planet. Now, right under the arc of the political football, Monash University has gathered a group of team players to address the energy sector’s biggest problems, and to coach a new national squad in the ways of the future digitised grid.
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The flying leap of Qantas’s new Kangaroo Route

Natalie Filatoff
March 24, 2018
Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce tells the story of Hudson Fysh, one of the founders of Qantas, who in 1931 said, “By 2031 … one may be seated in a bullet-shaped vehicle awaiting departure on a trip to London, occupying a little over half a day.” Yesterday evening, on Saturday March 24, 2018, around 236 passengers did just that when QF9, taxied down the runway at Perth airport to take off for the first non-stop passenger flight to London — expected duration 17 hours and 20 minutes.
“It seems we are 13 years ahead of schedule!” said Joyce.
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The sound of equality: A podcast for International Women’s Day 2018

Natalie Filatoff
March 07, 2018
"When Kelly O’Dwyer, Australia’s national Minister for Women recently returned home to her family in Melbourne after a week in Parliament, her almost-three-year-old daughter Livvy asked about her mum’s trip from Canberra. Yesterday, in O’Dwyer’s  address to the National Press Club, she recounted a little of what Livvy said,  “She knowingly told me that if I was on a plane then there must have been a pilot.  And then she said, ‘What was her name?’”
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Pumped Hydro — a deeper and more meaningful energy solution

Natalie Filatoff
March 07, 2018
"The Snowy Mountains Scheme resonates as a nation-building project in Australia’s history.  Today Snowy Hydro’s hard-working, relatively simple technology — which harnesses falling water to turn turbines that generate electricity — is a renewable-energy mainstay of the interconnected state electricity grids of eastern and southern Australia.
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Superstars of STEM meet Parliament

Natalie Filatoff
February 08, 2018
When Science meets Parliament, conversation sparks, lightbulbs of mutual understanding flicker and glow, ideas flow. As convenor Kylie Walker, CEO of Science & Technology Australia (STA) says, it’s a chance for senators and parliamentarians to connect with a potential “phone-a-friend scientist”. This year on February 13-14, pollies have the bonus opportunity of conferring with 28 Superstars of STEM — no capes, just honed super powers!
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The 2018 healthcare trend? It’s personal

Matt Tucker
February 02, 2018
Opinion from Matt Tucker, CEO and President, GE Healthcare Australia, New Zealand & PNG
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Trains on track to boost Australia’s competitive exports

Natalie Filatoff
February 02, 2018

The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is on a mission to make rail the transport mode of choice in Australia. With billions of dollars worth of recent infrastructure upgrades in place, it is now set to further digitise network control and transform its operational efficiencies, offering the mining operations of the Hunter Valley the most cost-effective path to world markets, and providing manufacturers, agricultural producers and passengers a more efficient network.

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Additive genius: How to seed Australia’s 3D-printing-savvy workforce

Natalie Filatoff
Metal 3D printing is forecast by the CSIRO to provide opportunities for Australia at every stage of the manufacturing value chain, from ore to innovative design. At GE 3D printing is known as the  “engineer’s dream”, a “new, unlimited dimension” in manufacturing.
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