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Appetite for Destruction: Giant Fridge Shredder Hits 100,000 Milestone

September 10, 2012
Brian Conners likes to break things down. “I am a manufacturing engineer,” he says. “But I like taking things apart, rather than building them.” He’s got the perfect job. Conners is president and chief operating officer of ARCA Advanced Processing, which runs a hulking 40-foot shredder that can chomp down one two-door refrigerator-freezer to chip-sized bits every 50 seconds, or 600 of them per day. “Think of it as a giant paper shredder,” he says.
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Eine Kleine Knock Music: GE Engineer Used Music Theory to PreventEngine Damage, Then Turned Sounds of Engine Trouble into Music

July 03, 2012

Good engineers have many handy tools hanging from their belts. Jeff Bizub has a degree in music theory. “Music theory is the engineering behind the art,” Bizub says. He used the theory to build a software version of his ear. It listens for knocking sounds inside massive GE engine cylinders. The sounds herald errant gas explosions that can cause cracks and severe engine damage. Bizub transcribed his knocking recordings into notes and set them in a short musical piece titled Knock Music.

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The Case of the Vegetarian Jet Engine: How GE Jet Engines Running on Vegetable Oil Mix Broke the Sound Barrier

June 06, 2012
Generations  of farmers have looked at the humble Camelina plant and saw weed. Mike Epstein, who leads alternative fuels development at GE Aviation, sees jet fuel. “It’s an amazing story,” Epstein says. “You just have to chemically modify it a little bit. Once you’ve done that, you’ve got something that looks very close to kerosene.”
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Cheese Lights the Whey: Biogas from Dairy Farm, Brewery and Landfill Turns Wisconsin Hospital into Renewables Powerhouse

May 18, 2012
The Crave Brothers dairy farm in Waterloo, Wisconsin, makes tubs of celebrated mascarpone cheese. Across the state, City Brewery in La Crosse brews millions of cases of winning ales and lagers. But Wisconsin’s Gundersen Lutheran Hospital gets excited about the stuff that doesn’t pass the smell test.
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TVs Tuned to the Super Bowl Could Power 3 Cities for 10 Hours

February 02, 2011

With the “Powering the Home” phase of GE’s $200 million ecomagination Challenge in full swing, the ecomagination team is taking a look at the energy usage of a gadget that’s indispensableeco — at least for this Sunday: your Super Bowl-tuned TV.

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GE powers ‘Green Hornet’ fighter in biofuel flight

Mike Epstein
April 23, 2010
Contributor Mike Epstein is the leader of Alternative Fuels for GE Aviation
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