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Energy

Mind The Gap: How To Build A Power Plant Fueled By The Sun And CO2

September 06, 2016
In March this year, Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research, designed a prototype of a supercritical CO2 turbine small enough to fit on his desk but powerful enough to generate electricity for 10,000 homes.
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Energy

GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon

Tomas Kellner
September 01, 2016
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert Armstrong, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), the school’s hub for energy research, education and outreach.
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climate

Inaction On Climate Change Is Costing Us Lives And Money

Peter Lapuma
August 05, 2016

Peter LaPuma, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, sits down with GE Reports to discuss society’s “inevitable transition to cleaner energy sources,” and what’s missing from the climate change debate.

 

  1. You focus a lot on climate change in your work. Where are you seeing the most progress?

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Minds-Machines

Full Steam Ahead: This Software Brain For Coal-Fired Power Plants Could Help Eliminate 500 Million Tons Of CO2

Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2016
GE just picked up a head of steam and put it in the cloud.
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Aerospace

How Innovation Is Helping Airlines Cut Carbon Emissions

David Melcher President And Ceo Of The Aerospace Industries Association
May 17, 2016

The aviation industry is undertaking a broad set of actions to curtail carbon emissions, says the head of the Aerospace Industries Association. Technology and operations advances, certification standards, biofuels and market-based measures will work in concert to achieve carbon-neutral growth starting in 2020.

 
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Come To The Dark Side

March 19, 2016
At 8.30pm on Saturday the 19th of March the lights will go off as people stand together for Earth Hour – an hour where the whole world unites to combat climate change.

Earth Hour 2015 saw almost 10,000 iconic monuments falling to darkness and over 70,000 events held around the world. This year’s Earth Hour aims to be bigger still.
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co2

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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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 25, 2016
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10 billion times brighter than the sun, researchers fight drug-resistant leukemia with a Trojan horse virus and engineers take tips from a desert beetle to squeeze moisture out of arid air. Take a look.
 

Study: Health Savings Offset Clean-Energy Costs in Spades
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2016 predictions

Jim Carroll: 3 Ways Energy Innovation Will Heat Up in 2016

Jim Carroll Futurist
January 10, 2016

From advances in renewables to data-driven efficiencies and empowered consumers, 2016 offers the opportunity to shape the future of energy.

 

In my view, 2016 will prove to be a watershed year when it comes to sustainable energy. Years from now, we'll look back and realize that a variety of technological, design and demographic trends drove the power sector forward, accelerated by one key event — the Paris climate accord.
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2016 predictions

Mogens Lykketoft: 2015 Saw Incredible Global Breakthroughs — Now We Need to Deliver

Mogens Lykketoft President Of The Un General Assembly
January 07, 2016

Deadly conflicts, horrific terrorist attacks and a worsening global humanitarian crisis have dominated 2015. Yet this year also saw a number of major international breakthroughs, most recently with the Climate Agreement in Paris. But for these agreements to bring us closer to a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world, 2016 must be all about action and implementation.

 
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