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Revelling in the Revolution CT: specialists speak

Jane Nicholls
July 06, 2017
The first new Revolution CT scanner for WA Health was installed at Royal Perth Hospital in December 2016, with three more of GE’s latest, top-of-the-line computed tomography scanners going into service for Western Australia’s public health system this year.
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Dream come true: an Australian sleep-apnoea solution

Natalie Filatoff
July 05, 2017
From a bed of the softest titanium powder, 60 silvery air pipes emerge, perfectly formed by an electron-beam 3D printer. Each hollow harbinger of peaceful breathing is specifically shaped to fit the bite and feed the airways of one person suffering obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).
This is the story of how Dr Christopher Hart, a sleep-deprived Australian dentist, collaborated with CSIRO, the nation’s innovation enabler, to lift the snorer’s curse for himself and for thousands, perhaps soon to be hundreds of thousands, of others.
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75 turbines lead the wind parade

Jane Nicholls
June 27, 2017
It’s spinning enough energy to power the equivalent of 120,000 homes. It was the first wind-farm project signed after restoration of the renewable energy target (RET) in 2015. Its 75 GE 3.2-103 turbines add up to 240MW, making it the third-largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Prospecting for Australia's digital gold

June 26, 2017
Yonatan Hagos is general manager of Emerging Verticals at GE Digital. That is, he applies GE’s learnings in using data to optimise processes and equipment in its own businesses, to industries outside the GE fold. He was recently in Australia, identifying opportunities in industries that are at an inflection point—where a leap in productivity or a revolution in process and asset use are required for future prosperity.
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An organ transplant for a steam turbine

Jane Nicholls
June 21, 2017
It’s termed a retrofit, but the coming upgrade at Loy Yang B power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is more like a complete organ transplant for a body that’s otherwise got plenty of life left in it.
The power station’s two existing Hitachi steam turbines will be retrofitted by GE and, says Mark Benjamin from GE Power Services, “to all intents and purposes turned into GE turbines”.
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Jeff Immelt’s final foray Down Under

June 16, 2017
They didn’t know it when they gathered to see him speak, but some 200 innovation-focussed leaders at GE’s Decoding Industry event in Sydney in April were witnessing Jeff Immelt’s ultimate star turn in Australia as GE’s global CEO and chairman.
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Igniting a passion for science in remote WA

June 15, 2017
When Scitech’s Aboriginal Education Program rolls into remote Western Australian schools with its hands-on science-engagement show, class attendance soars towards 100%, the gap-toothed grins of primary schoolers spread from ear to ear and teenagers start asking questions! “Can you stay longer?” is a lingering refrain.
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Doctor, switch off the scanner and pass the popcorn

June 15, 2017
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences is pioneering a fresh take in online professional-development courses.
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Decoding Industry: a new podcast series to feed your mind

June 12, 2017

The best and the brightest is usually a hyperbolic boast, but it was a data-packed statement of fact at GE’s Decoding Industry event in April.

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Towers of power coming to Crookwell

June 07, 2017
The Prell family has been farming near Crookwell, in the tablelands atop the Great Dividing Range, for 120 years. For 17 of those trips around the sun, Charlie Prell has been waiting for wind. That’s how many years ago he was first approached about hosting wind turbines on his property. In the intervening years, sheep farmer Prell muses, “I’ve gained a lot of experience about how it all works—the politics and economics involved in renewable energy.”
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