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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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Present Perfect: When Reality Trumps Imagination

Thomas Herles
December 11, 2015
In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of comic books called Adventures in Science. “In the public relations field, although were all aware of the adult fear that comic books were producing a crop of juvenile delinquents, we couldn’t escape the conclusion that the medium had attractive possibilities for mass communications,“ said a 1953 story published in General Electric Review, a
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High-Tech Harriet Turbines Make Generating Energy From Shale Gas In Pennsylvania More Efficient

December 07, 2015
Two of the world’s most efficient gas turbines, made by GE in Greenville, South Carolina, will drive a new power plant built by Moxie Energy and Caithness Energy in Salem Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The 1,029-megawatt (MW) facility, called Caithness Moxie Freedom generation plant, will tap natural gas from the world’s most prolific shale gas area, the Marcellus Formation, and generate enough electricity to power approximately 1 million American homes when the plant comes online in 2018. It will help Pennsylvania and the wider region shift away from coal to cleaner energy.
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Tour de Force: Watch the World’s Largest Gas Turbine Wheel Across France

July 08, 2015
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This Software Can Take the Heat: Stanford Spinoff is Helping GE Develop Tomorrow’s Turbines

June 20, 2015
She’s a massive beast that can generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity in a combined cycle power plant, the equivalent power that would be needed to supply approximately 600,000 U.S. homes. To do so efficiently, however, this latest GE gas turbine, officially called 9HA but nicknamed Harriet by GE workers, must withstand temperatures greater than 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
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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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