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Magnetic Attraction: GE Researchers Tapping Healthcare Experience to Scale Up Offshore Wind Power

January 21, 2021
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Renewables

Hacking Hydro: Idea Contest Seeks To Sharpen Waterpower’s Renewable Energy Edge

Tomas Kellner
September 28, 2019

Commercial electricity was a shiny new thing in 1897, when operators flipped the switch on the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Station on the Hudson River in upstate New York. Straddling one of the river's fastest-running channels, the plant was famous even before it began sending power to customers. Up to 1,000 visitors day came to gawk at the technological marvel, whose generators were designed by GE polymath and research lab founder Charles Proteus Steinmetz. And it was built to last.

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future of energy

Why We Should Take A Super-Critical Look At Coal Financing

Karan Bhatia GE
July 26, 2017
As one of the largest energy technology companies in the world, we at GE believe climate change is real and that more should be done to transition to clean energy. We have put our money where our mouth is and developed one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the world, investing over $20 billion in clean tech R&D over the last 12 years.
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power

An Expert’s 6 Bright Ideas On The 'Golden Age Of Renewable Energy'

Nick Miller Senior Technical Director GE Energy Consulting
December 30, 2016

Meet Nick Miller, a power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here’s a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together. As Senior Technical Director for GE Energy Consulting, Miller also advises industry.

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Renewables

How Renewable Energy Is Taking A Page From Bitcoin

Laurent Schmitt Smart Grid Strategy Leader GE Grid Solutions
November 28, 2016

The problem of “too much” renewable energy on a grid can be solved with blockchain, a technology most often associated with bitcoins. Blockchain will provide a transparent way for households and businesses to trade renewables with each other. Laurent Schmitt, Smart Grid Strategy Leader for GE's Grid Solutions business, explains how it will work.

 

 

Bitcoin is one of the most revolutionary ideas to come out of the tech world. A whole new form of currency was created from nothing, but people are now using it to buy everything from coffee to electronics.
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Renewables

Hawaii’s Biggest Electricity Supplier Explains How The State Will Be First To Rely On 100 Percent Renewables

Connie Lau
November 18, 2016
What’s been called the most aggressive clean energy goal in the nation, legislation was enacted last year with the goal that the state of Hawaii will use 100 percent renewable sources by 2045. Connie Lau, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., and GE Ecomagination Advisory Board member, explains why the state’s largest electricity supplier supports the goal and what they are learning as they work to get there.
 

 
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    This is How a Jet Engine Works. "Masterclass" Videos Explain It All and More

    June 16, 2014
    Any kid who lost the training wheels can describe how a bicycle works, and most adults with a driver’s license can do the same for a car engine. But ask a random person about a jet engine and you’re likely to draw a blank. “Millions of people fly every day and few of them know how their plane stays in the sky,” says Todd Wetzel, aerospace engineer at GE Global Research (GRC). “Yet the principle is so simple; it’s action and reaction, nothing more than Newton’s physics. We all learned it in middle school.”
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    Torque Reform: Extreme Wind Test Facility Asks Turbines, Watcha Got?

    April 01, 2014

    Mark Johnson is no Don Quixote humbled by windmills. He makes wind turbines beg for forgiveness.

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