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The Future Of Energy

That’s Hot: This Lung-Inspired 3D-Printed Part For Cooling CO2 Could Take Power Generation To The Next Level

Fred Guterl
July 01, 2019

When Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, it was a monumental advance. More than a century later, engineers are still relying on steam to operate the turbines that generate much of the world’s power. Perhaps it’s about time to take the technology to the next level.

One way to do that is to draw inspiration from the human body. That’s exactly what Peter deBock and his colleagues at GE Research in Niskayuna, New York, did: They devised a heat exchanger — an essential component of the cooling system of a power turbine — that mimics human lungs.

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
March 02, 2019
Atmospheric carbon gets turned back into coal, tobacco plants are repurposed as “green bioreactors,” and an artificial intelligence text generator becomes worrisomely good at its job. There’s all sorts of unexpected transformation — and more — in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.
 

Could Coal Get The Benjamin Button Treatment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03gWgCN61F0
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Energy

This Is What We Call Ecomagination: GE Is Building A CO2-Powered Turbine That Generates 10 Megawatts And Fits On A Table

Tomas Kellner
April 12, 2017
Beacham says that facial recognition will enable plant managers to ensure that workers at specific workstations have the required training. It also will automatically sign the employee into GE’s IT systems and allow him or her to start or resume the job after a break. “We’re spending almost 100,000 hours a year on logging into our IT systems at GE Healthcare alone,” Beacham says. “This saves time and money.”
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Điện than có thể không ô nhiễm như bạn nghĩ

December 15, 2016

Với công nghệ mới, lượng phát thải CO2 của các nhà máy điện than có thể giảm ít nhất 2 tỉ tấn mỗi năm.

Công nghệ mới này tập trung vào việc nâng cao hiệu suất sử dụng của nguồn nhiệt lượng có được nhờ đốt than. Theo tính toán, tăng 1% hiệu suất của các nhà máy điện than đồng nghĩa với giảm 2% lượng CO2 các nhà máy này xả ra môi trường.

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co2

Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 27, 2016

It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide, one of the main contributors to global warming. But one refinery on the windswept west coast of Norway will soon start sequestering CO2 by feeding it to fish.

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Electricity

Thousand Power Islands: These Technologies Will Help Turn On The Lights In Remote Parts Of Indonesia

Tomas Kellner
September 22, 2016
From Jakarta’s glittering glass towers—which seem to grow as fast as rattan—to remote fishing villages with no plumbing and electricity, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. Spread across some 18,000 islands—only half of which have been named—its megacities and lush green forests are home to some 255 million people, making it the fourth most populous country in the world after India, China and the United States. The government is now trying to make sure the vast majority of them can turn the lights on at night.
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Software

Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His Fascination With Coal Power Plants

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2016
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants. They are still the most common source of electricity in the world.
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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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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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