No Extra Time: "Highways in the Sky" are Helping Brazilian Airlines Navigate Crowded Skies in Busy Times
In just two months some 600,000 fans from 31 countries and 3 million local tourists will turn Brazil’s airports into buzzing beehives.
Save Money, Light Better: Walmart Will Switch 100s of Stores to GE LEDs
Fifty years ago, physicist Nick Holonyak was tinkering with lasers in his GE lab when he discovered the world’s first light-emitting diode. “We knew what happened and that we had a powerful way of converting electric current directly into light,” Holonyak says. “We had the ultimate lamp.” His team called it “the Magic One.”
High-Fiber Diet: You'll Never Guess What This Gas Engine Eats
Flying Blue: Air France-KLM Place $1.7 Billion GE Jet Engine Order for New Dreamliner Fleet
The GEnx jet engine is so powerful that five of them together can produce the same thrust at sea level as one Space Shuttle rocket engine.
It takes just two to lift a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and Air France-KLM will use these engines on a fleet of 37 new Dreamliner jets. The airline will own 25 of the planes and lease the rest. The value of the engine order tops $1.7 billion.
Life Aquatic: Nanotech is Saving Volcanic Lake from Algae Explosions
Today, Rotorua’s pellucid aquamarine water is a huge tourist magnet. But as the area developed, effluent from farms and nearby towns also fueled algae blooms that gobbled up oxygen and threatened to suffocate fish and other aquatic life in the lake.
A Mighty Wind: Taking U.S. Power Generation by Storm
Wind farms have delivered 30 percent of all new American power generating capacity for the last five years. Wind also supplied more than 4 percent of all U.S. electricity for the first time in 2013, according to new data published by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). States like Iowa and South Dakota now get more than a quarter of their power from wind.
Friends in High Places: “Space Frame” Wind Tower Takes Renewables to Tough Locations
Instead of traditional steel tube towers, the new design is using metal latticework wrapped in a fiberglass coat. The lattice girders can be loaded inside shipping containers and onto ordinary trucks, and bolted together at the final destination. This makes logistics and transportation easier (see time-lapse video).
Getting to the Bottom: GE on Track to Complete Hudson River Cleanup
GE is on track to finish one of the largest and most logistically complex environmental cleanups in U.S. history on a 40-mile stretch of the Hudson River.
The company has removed nearly 2 million cubic yards of sediment containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the New York State waterway since 2009.The project is due to conclude in 2016.
Time to Recharge: Wind-Powered EV Charger Gets Drivers Amped Up
Guiding Light: New Research Explores Ways to Cut Water Use and Emissions in Energy Production
Speaking at the Energy 2020 summit in Washington D.C., GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today that GE will invest an additional $10 billion in “ecomagination” research by 2020, to reach a total of $25 billion since the program’s inception a decade ago.
Ecomagination is GE’s company-wide push designed to develop cleaner and more efficient technologies. It has generated $160 billion in revenues since 2005.