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Silverton’s new treasure: wind energy

January 19, 2017
A high-energy blockbuster is about to start production just outside Silverton, the historic silver-mining town and famed film location near Broken Hill, NSW. Movies shot in the quintessential Australian outback setting include Mad Max and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The village will soon be abuzz again, as hundreds of workers arrive to harvest a fortune that’s way more certain than either silver mining or movie making: wind energy.
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More big ideas for 2017

December 29, 2016
In this era of maximum disruption and its twin, brilliant innovation, the opportunities and the challenges for businesses, utilities and industries of every stripe are enormous.
As we pause for a break to reflect on the year that’s been, it’s also a time to look to the future and imagine what it looks like.

We canvassed eight super-smart leaders from a broad spectrum, including avionics, mental health, energy, carbon markets, research and academia and asked them the same two questions:
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    7 bright ideas on renewable energy

    December 16, 2016
    Meet Nick Miller, a US power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here's a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together.
    His work in applied engineering and research over the past 36 years has amassed a sheaf of patents; many relating to the control systems of  GE wind turbines and wind farms are designed to make these renewable powerhouses ever better citizens on the world’s electricity grids.
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    This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy

    Tobey Grumet
    October 16, 2016
    Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by combining it with hydropower. The big idea here is that the wind will generate electricity when it’s, well, windy, and the water will act as a giant battery that will discharge and modulate output when it stops blowing.
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    Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion

    Tomas Kellner
    October 11, 2016
    The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $1.65 billion.
    LM Wind is a global leader in wind turbine rotor manufacturing. The company builds blades for the industry’s 1.5- and 2-megawatt, meat-and-potatoes wind turbines as well as 8-megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.
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    Turnt4Turbines: Top Photogs Shoot Block Island Wind Farm

    September 20, 2016
    It’s the last week of summer. Sunset. You’re 3 miles out to sea, 500 feet above the churning waves in a little red helicopter with (you hope) a trusty seatbelt and no door.
    Roughly at eye level, a white blade traces a sinuous line across the sky to the nacelle that holds the gears of an offshore wind turbine.

    Grip your camera, lean out (but not too far, bucko!) and train it on the turbine backlit by a fiery sun. Find the turbine’s reflection in the aircraft’s tail. Snap.
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    Fortune Magazine List Names GE As A Top World Changer

    August 21, 2016
    It took considerable time and investment to boost the efficiency of GE’s gigantic HA gas turbine, affectionately known as “HArriet”, by just a few percent. The company’s scientists used super materials and other technologies borrowed from jet engines to coax every last bit of performance from the machine, and gained the notice of Guinness when it hit 62 percent efficiency.
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    The clean slate: Summit drives renewable energy ideas

    August 05, 2016
    It was plug and play for the renewable energy community, at the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2016, held last week in Sydney.
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    Financing a flourishing clean-energy industry

    July 28, 2016
    Power purchase agreements for renewable energy may be blowing in the wind, but Jason Willoughby, managing director of GE Energy Financial Services in Australia and New Zealand, proposes a fresh approach to getting wind-farm projects up and running, and acing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target.
    Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, set in June last year, is a huge opportunity to deliver almost a quarter of our power needs, or 33,000 GWh, of renewable energy by 2020 in the lowest-cost, most reliable way.
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    My Turbine Lies Over The Ocean: It Takes Herculean Labor To Build America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    July 06, 2016
    Eric Crucerey and his team can move mountains. Well, maybe not mountains, but machines that dwarf the Statue of Liberty.
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