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This Grounded Jet Engine Is Helping Keep the Lights on at the World’s Largest Hospital

June 29, 2015
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Set Your Blades to Vibrate: Titanic Forces are Shaking Things Up in this GE Lab

June 10, 2015
It takes a tiny electric motor to vibrate all 4.55 ounces of an iPhone 6. But the engineers who are vibrating 80-pound gas turbine compressor blades to test their strength at GE’s component test laboratory in Greenville, SC, need a much bigger rig.
They bolt the blades to a heavy-duty table that vibrates faster than the eye can see. The setup subjects the blades to acceleration forces approaching 10 g, double what a racecar driver might experience when making a turn at a motorway.
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Move Over Slow Food, Slow Wind Might Be the Latest Thing in Sustainable Living

May 11, 2015
Sailors know that wind can be a fickle servant and they’ve come up with ingenious ways to trap it in their sails. Wind turbine designers have recently developed their own tricks to beat the doldrums and build efficient wind farms for landscapes caressed with slow-moving wind.
One such machine is the GE 2.5-120 wind turbine – the numbers stand for 2.5 megawatts in output and 120 meters (393 feet) in rotor diameter. Last year, construction crews installed 14 of them at a wind farm near Rehborn, Germany.
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Deep Under Stockholm, Water Plant Blasted from Granite Gets a Nanotech Makeover

April 30, 2015
There is no lack of water in Stockholm, which spreads over an archipelago of 14 islands and whose oldest quarter used to be called quite literally “The Town Between the Bridges.”
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High-Tech Turbines Will Help Exelon Save Huge Amounts of Water in a Dry Part of Texas

April 14, 2015
When summer heat settles in, just like it did repeatedly in Texas over the last several years, the combination of a high demand for electricity and dwindling water supply can start a vicious circle.
That’s because power plants use water for cooling equipment and a lack of water can lead to plant outages. “The state of Texas is still experiencing severe drought and power plants typically need a lot of water,” says Bill Harris, a spokesman for Exelon Corp., one of the largest U.S. utilities. “We’ve got to keep that in mind.”
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A Glass Half Full: These Water Treatment Technologies Are So Powerful They Can Fight Drought in the Desert

April 07, 2015
Water scarcity has again become a hot topic as California and Texas lurch into their fourth year of drought and Brazil’s Sao Paulo may start rationing water in 2015. But in some parts of the world the lack of water has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember.
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One if by Air, Two if by Sea: How the Jet Engine that Supercharged Aviation Found Earthly Calling, Powering the World’s Fastest Ship

March 23, 2015
When the first C-5 transport plane took off in 1968, it became the world’s largest aircraft, capable of lifting 130 tons of cargo. As tall as a six-story building and 80 yards long, the U.S. Air Force called it “a beautiful, useful giant.”
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This Japanese Company Built a “Disaster-Proof” Factory

March 17, 2015
Japan is famous for innovation. But, like many countries in the Pacific, it must also cope with fierce forces of nature. Now one local company has merged insights from both and built what could be one of the first “disaster-proof” factories.
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Huge GE Power Deal Will Light Up Egypt with Electricity

March 13, 2015
Economies run on power, and growing economies, like growing kids, are always hungry for more. Such is the case in Egypt, which is brimming with young workers. The median age of Egypt’s 85 million citizens is just over 25 years, and they need new jobs in factories demanding ever more energy.
But Egypt’s demand for electricity is already outstripping supply, and the government is seeking fast ways to boost it. GE has found one.
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This Gas Turbine Could Pump Up the Goodyear Blimp in About 10 Seconds. But How Do You Test It?

February 18, 2015
Eric King has made many an extreme machine cry uncle over his long career as a testing engineer. But nothing comes close to his current charge, Harriet, the world’s largest and most powerful gas turbine. “What we are doing is akin to the hardest military boot camp,” King says. “There is nothing like this anywhere in the world.
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