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This Scientist’s Got The Power (Plant) In His Hands

Todd Alhart
March 15, 2016
A picture may be worth 1,000 words. But this one is also worth 10,000 kilowatts.
Though small in stature, the turbine in the photos could contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest energy challenges, not to mention powering an entire town, says Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research.
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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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Annual Outlook

“We Have Grit,” Jeff Immelt Tells Shareowners In His Annual Letter

Tomas Kellner
Timothy Cheng
February 29, 2016
Speaking last fall from Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza — best known as the set of “Saturday Night Live” — GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told a crowd of investors and analysts how he was turning the 138-year-old business into the world’s largest digital-industrial company. He wasn’t joking. “We’re the only company that will have the machines, analytics and operating systems,” he said. “That’s how we’ll play the Industrial Internet.”
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Aerospace

New Lion Air Order Lands LEAP Engine Total Near $145 Billion

Tomas Kellner
February 29, 2016
Few airlines demonstrate the latest trends in air transportation better than does Indonesia’s Lion Air. The fast-growing carrier opened for business in 2000, flying to domestic destinations and nearby foreign airports in Singapore and Vietnam. Today, its fleet consists almost entirely of single-aisle aircraft like the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, with hundreds of the next-generation versions of the planes on order.
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Flying Light: Getting Fast Power To Faraway Places

Kristin Kloberdanz
February 23, 2016
Christmas comes in the summer in sub-Saharan Africa, and for months leading up to the 2014 holiday season, homes and businesses in Cabinda, Angola, were often hot and dark. The old power grid that had supplied power to this fast-growing and oil-rich province had faltered under the growing demand. “There was immense pressure on the administration in Angola to solve this problem,” recalls Leslie Nelson, executive general manager for GE Power in Africa.
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4th Industrial Revolution

Ready For Prime Time: Intel Joins GE As It Opens Predix, Its Digital Platform For The Industrial Internet, To All Users

Tomas Kellner
February 22, 2016
Few people can fathom the sheer size of the World Wide Web, the most visible part of the Internet where we shop, meet friends, read news and watch movies. But the Web will soon be a minnow when compared to the immensity of the Industrial Internet, a fast-growing network connecting machines and devices of all types: from thermostats to thermal power plants.
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Innovation

GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List

Tomas Kellner
February 17, 2016
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very top), Uber and Alphabet.
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Aerospace

Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers 3 Next-Gen Jets

Tomas Kellner
February 16, 2016
The Airbus A321neo passenger plane has become the third next-generation aircraft to complete a maiden flight with LEAP engines on wing. The LEAP is the first engine that includes both 3D-printed parts and components from advanced ceramic materials that can handle higher temperatures than even the most advanced alloys but weigh just one-third what steel does.
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General Relativity

Physics Rocks! Gravity Waves Vindicate Einstein's Theory

Tomas Kellner
February 12, 2016
Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) eavesdropping on two colliding black holes half a universe away heard enough to confirm the existence of gravitational waves. These ripples in spacetime were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915, but never previously observed.
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Extreme Machines

A Snowball's Chance In Hell? You Can Bet On It!

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 feats are “unimpossible.”
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