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Minds-Machines

The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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Hydropower

Could This Be The Most Extreme Power Plant In The World?

Tomas Kellner
June 07, 2016

Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as much electricity as a nuclear power plant and, at the flip of a switch, act as a giant battery. “It’s the only grid-scale method of storing energy,” says Maryse François, the hydrotechnology leader at GE Renewable Energy, the company that developed the technology powering the site.

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Aerospace

Up In The Air: The World’s Hardest-Working Jet Engine Has Logged 91,000 Years in Flight

Tomas Kellner
June 07, 2016
How long is 91,000 years? Go back that far in the history of the earth and the Sahara was a wet and fertile plateau. It's also the cumulative amount of time that the world’s most hardest-working jet engine, the CFM56, has spent in the air since its first commercial flight on a DC-8 Super 70 passenger jet in 1981.
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Aerospace

Next-Gen Airbus Jet Cleared For Takeoff By European And US Regulators

Tomas Kellner
May 31, 2016
Airbus opened a new chapter in passenger travel this morning when European and American regulators issued a key certification to its next-generation Airbus A320neo plane powered by a pair of advanced LEAP-1A jet engines.
The ruling, called type certification, from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) essentially clears the runway for the delivery of the first A320neo equipped with the LEAP engine to an airline customer in the middle of 2016.
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Aerospace

Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly Supersonic

Tomas Kellner
May 26, 2016
The Concorde was the first and last supersonic jet in passenger service. But that claim comes with a caveat.
The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of noisy sonic booms caused by the plane crossing the sound barrier forced pilots to hold back the throttle above towns and cities after takeoff and before touchdown. “This speed limit actually made the plane much less efficient,” says Karl Wisniewski, director of advanced programs at GE Aviation. “It was designed to fly fast.”
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes

Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2016
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live there are used to making very big things.
The world’s fastest and largest liners, including Normandie and Queen Mary 2, sprung from its dry docks. The port also serves as a transit hub for the fuselage and wings that make the double-decker Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
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vietnam

These Two Massive Vietnam Deals Just Inked During President Obama’s Historic Visit Involve GE Technology

Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2016
Few sights represent Vietnam’s meteoric economic rise better than the cluster of tall business towers remaking the Ho Chi Minh City skyline. The Asian country ranked among the poorest in the world 30 years ago, with per capita income just $100. Reforms have since swelled Vietnam’s GDP more than 20 times, as the country has enjoyed one of the longest economic booms anywhere in the world.
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globalization

Jeff Immelt: Preparing for What’s Next

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
May 22, 2016
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globalization

The World I See: Jeff Immelt's Advice To Win In Time Of Anger About Globalization

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
May 20, 2016

Many people around the world are angry about globalization and companies and governments are both to blame for it. But now is not the time to turn inward as a result, GE Chairman & CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt told graduates of NYU's Stern School of Business on May 20 during a commencement address.

Here are Immelt's prepared remarks to the graduating class:

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Precision Medicine

New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body

Tomas Kellner
May 20, 2016

For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.

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