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Ultra Super Critical: These Badass Machines Help Make 30 Percent Of The World’s Power

Tomas Kellner
January 07, 2016
When GE acquired Alstom’s power and grid business last fall, it bought some of world’s largest wind and water turbines, “ultra-super-critical” steam turbines - that's their real name - massive generators and other advanced technology for making lots of electricity. So much so that with Alstom, GE technology can now generate one third of the world’s power.
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Let It Blow: How Brazilian Wind Farms Benefit From GE’s Largest Acquisition

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
South America’s vast Pampas stretch over three countries and cover an area larger than France. Farmers in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have long discovered the appeal of the flat and fertile lowlands. Wind farm operators, especially in Brazil, the continent’s largest economy, are now taking a second look.
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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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