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nuclear

Christine Todd Whitman: What’s the Most Effective Path to Clean Energy? Go Nuclear

Christine Todd Whitman President Of The Whitman Strategy Group
February 09, 2016

Overlooking nuclear energy as part of America’s clean energy strategy would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament.

Clean, green and reliable — these should be the core elements of our nation’s energy policy in the 21st century and beyond. Accepting any lesser criteria will hinder our efforts to reduce carbon pollution and provide clean air for all Americans to breathe. That’s why we cannot afford to lose the most important tool in our clean energy arsenal: carbon-free nuclear energy.
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Africa

Mind The Gap: Here’s How You Take On A Power Crisis The Size Of A Continent

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
One easy way to see Africa’s power problem is by looking at a picture of the Earth from space at night. While other inhabited regions of the world glow and sparkle like jewels in a black velvet display case, Africa remains largely dark. That’s because the continent’s 1.1 billion inhabitants have at their disposal just 185 gigawatts (GW) of installed power-generation capacity. The United States, by comparison, can draw on 1,000 GW for 300 million people.
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best of 2015

19 Tech Stories From 2015 You Should Know About

Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
There were many tech stories that caught our eye in 2015. Here are 19 examples that either touch on GE technology and research or received funding from the company. They stretch from the depths of the human genome to edge of the solar system. Take a look:
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future of energy

The Real Point Break: Where The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Prove Their Mettle

December 15, 2015
In parts of the world like the US and Brazil where electric current oscillates at 60 Hz, there’s no larger and more efficient gas turbine than a machine GE calls 7HA. So efficient, in fact, that when it swallows and burns 3.3 tons of air mixed with natural gas - equivalent to 23 tanker trucks - out comes a mere 6.3 fluid ounces of pollution, a volume slightly larger than a half- can of soda.
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Community and renewables in concert

November 26, 2015
The lively community session held in late September at Ararat’s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre was part information day, part jobs fair for the Ararat Wind Farm, where earthworks and road-making, fencing, and anemometric and geotechnical testing are already in full swing.
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Wind with benefits

November 26, 2015
Windfall: an unexpected good fortune, a piece of fruit blown down by the wind! The term suits the benefits that accrue around wind farms. As rural-based infrastructure projects, they confirm people’s investment and faith in their communities, and contribute to thriving towns and skills-based employment. As windfalls go, Ararat Wind Farm, the 75-turbine, $450 million venture due to start feeding more of Australia’s endless wind resource to the electricity grid from 2017, has hit the ground running.
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wind energy

The Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online Shopping Spree for Styrofoam Balls

October 17, 2015
Scientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. It rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height of the Eiffel Tower — and seems to have a silver UFO stuck to its face. The turbine may appear strange, but you are looking at the future of wind power. Here's how it came about.
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Industrial Internet

Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent More Efficient

September 27, 2015
Few people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to power a set of batteries in his basement. Although by today’s standards the huge, 60-foot machine was massively inefficient, it started a new industry that pushed generations of engineers to make it better. Now GE has decided to go further and improve on the entire wind farm in one fell swoop.
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Renewables

Buzzy Bees: Wind Turbine Drone Inspectors Will Grow Into a $6 Billion Market in the Next Decade

September 18, 2015
 
Maintaining wind turbines is a critical but time-consuming business. Dedicated technicians must gather their gear, rope up and climb hundreds of feet above firm ground to inspect turbine blades and nacelles. “It’s a workout,” said Mike Bowman, an ultra-marathoner who leads sustainable energy projects at GE Global Research, after he climbed the 300-foot tower of GE’s new Ecorotr wind turbine in Tehachapi, Cal.
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Wind spins strong in Australia’s energy whirl

July 31, 2015
 

In this video, filmed in partnership with the Australian Financial Review for Australia’s Energy Future, Jason Willoughby, managing director, sales and project finance at GE Australia and New Zealand, discusses the part Australia’s renewable resources will play in our evolving energy mix.
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