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blockchain

Powered By Blockchain: Move Over Bitcoin, Here Comes Digital Energy

Tomas Kellner
January 25, 2018
The fever and frenzy gripping the bitcoin market may ultimately curtail the digital currency’s appeal. But the smart money is already betting on blockchain, the technology that allowed bitcoin to take off in the first place.
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Renewables

This Scientist Has Turned The Tables On Greenhouse Gas, Using CO2 To Generate Electricity

March 07, 2016

Solar power is a great source of renewable energy, but as with many things in life, timing is everything. The sun doesn’t shine on long winter nights when people turn on their lights. On the other hand, a sunny Sunday afternoon can produce an ample electricity surplus that’s difficult to store.

“That’s the grand challenge,” says Stephen Sanborn, senior engineer and principal investigator at GE Global Research (GRC). “We need to make renewable energy available to the grid when it is needed.”

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Extreme Machines

Don't Try This At Home: How To Catch A Lightning In A Bottle

Tomas Kellner
February 11, 2016
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things.
But then, he never had the opportunity.

This year, GE is celebrating Edison’s birthday, which President Reagan proclaimed as National Inventors Day, by taking on the impossible challenges of lore. On Feb. 11, the company will release videos that prove these tasks are “unimpossible.”
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The Fashion of Science: Folded Proteins Never Looked this Hip

September 12, 2014
You don’t need a microscope to see how science wove itself into the fabric of New York’s Fashion Week, which ended on Thursday. In fact, it seems that many designers may have gone to engineering school or at least took an internship at a lab. They’ve been influenced by everything from 3D printing and hydrophobic materials to protein structures and fracture mechanics.
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