Ganesh Bell: Driving Economic Growth in Europe with Digital Transformation
Lighting Up Baja: A Deadly Hurricane Knocked Cabo Hard, But Recovery Crews Didn't Stay Down for the Count
When Hurricane Odile hit the Baja California peninsula in mid-September, it quickly became one of the most destructive storms ever to make landfall in Mexico. It killed five people, stranded thousands of tourists, and left almost everyone on the peninsula without power.
Ganesh Bell: How to Get the Most Out of Your Industrial Assets
Whatever your industry, you may have invested in Big Data in the hopes it will increase your efficiency and save you money. Perhaps you have a vision of a self-optimizing plant that gets smarter over time, gives you end-to-end visibility and saves you millions. But the results haven’t materialized, and you’re still looking for a way to turn that data into dollars.
In Search of Lost Trash: French Landfill is Using Remains of the Past to Illuminate the Future
When the giant Plessis-Gassot landfill opened its gates outside Paris in the 1960s, Charles de Gaulle was France’s president and Brigitte Bardot its most famous movie star.
Since then, the landfill has gobbled up millions of tons of refuse thrown out by generations of Parisians. That trash is now playing a bright role in France’s renewable energy future. It supplies the country’s largest landfill power plant with enough methane-rich biogas (also called landfill gas) to generate electricity for more than 40,000 French homes.
Meet the Most Powerful Austrian Export since Arnold
Germany, like many industrial countries, has been relying on coal and nuclear power to produce most of its electricity. But not for much longer.
The country is in the middle of an ambitious overhaul of its power supply system called Energiewende. When it’s finished in 2050, renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro will deliver 60 percent of Germany’s power.
Lasers Will Blaze the Path for Product Design
When the Industrial Revolution gained speed in the 1850s, it colored all facets of life, including some of the world’s most admired art. Advances in chemistry brought dozens of new pigments that allowed bright young artists like Monet, Cezanne and Pissarro to abandon tradition and revolutionize painting with new techniques and styles like impressionism.
Methanephysics: From Boom to Boon
On November 4, 1776, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta took a boat ride on the pristine Lake Maggiore straddling the border between northern Italy and Switzerland. Ever the scientist - he invented the first battery and the unit of electrical potential, the volt, is named after him – Volta ignored the distant alpine vistas and poked a stick in a marsh near the shore.
Nip & Tuck: Surgery Makes Wind Blades Go Bigger
GE Bids to Acquire Alstom’s Energy Units for $13.5 Billion
GE said in a press release that the Alstom board “positively received” its offer and appointed a committee of independent directors to review the bid by June 2. The deal is expected to close in 2015.
