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Innovation

The Way Forward: How GE Engineers Are Helping Build A Path To A Renewable Future

Will Palmer
April 20, 2021

In the five decades since the first Earth Day, the world has made much progress in understanding the perils posed by climate change and finding the solutions we need. But we are far from done. The switch to electric cars alone will force us to reimagine not only how we make electricity, but also how we distribute it.

Renewables are clearly a big part of the future of energy, but so are natural gas, energy storage, hydropower and the digital grid. Other industries, like aviation, must also decarbonize to help prevent the planet from warming.

3D Printing

A Leading Light: Science Breakthroughs Win This Laser Pioneer Major Accolades

Todd Alhart
November 04, 2020
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Marshall Jones knows a thing or two about beating the odds, but it’s not just because of his knack for mathematics. A model of perseverance, the laser pioneer was raised by his extended family on a duck farm but ended up laying the foundation for additive manufacturing, a new breed of technologies that allow companies to 3D-print things from metal.

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Weather

Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut's Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes

Tomas Kellner
July 08, 2020

Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction novel “Cat’s Cradle” revolves around a tricky compound called ice-nine that can turn water solid at room temperature. Vonnegut, who worked for GE in the 1950s as an in-house journalist, came up with many beautifully outlandish plots for his best-selling books. But ice research was hitting close to his beat as well as his home.

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Electrification Software

Sensors And Sensibility: This Engineer Found A Way To Keep Pipelines Healthy At The World's Largest Refinery

Tomas Kellner
August 11, 2019
For the world’s largest facility of its kind, Reliance Industries’ oil refinery is surprisingly hard to find. Built on the vast alluvial plains surrounding Jamnagar, a town in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat, the refinery is flanked by thick mango groves, tree-lined private highways and a pristine company town called Reliance Greens that holds homes, parks, schools and other facilities for some 2,500 employees and their families. The massive industrial monument only slowly emerges from behind the green curtain.
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Future of electricity

Bad CO2, Good CO2: GE Scientists Use Climate Change Culprit To Make Cleaner Electricity

Fred Guterl
November 11, 2018
It’s one thing to design something on paper, another to build it. GE engineers got that first thrill of seeing their designs take shape in San Antonio in October, when GE partner Southwest Research Institute broke ground on a two-year-old project to build the world’s first 10-megawatt power plant using supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of steam.
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Electrification Software Twin

The Forever Turbine: Methuselah Machines May Come Of Age Before Humans Do

Fred Guterl
October 31, 2018
That ache in your elbow has been there ever since you pitched for your high school team so many years ago. But that persistence of the pain is something of an illusion. The human body replaces its muscle cells every 15 years on average. By the same token, the cells in your bones, tendons, ligaments and cartilage may be completely different from the ones you had a few years ago.
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Electrification Software Twin

Seeing Double: Digital Twins Make GE and Baker Hughes Supply Chain Innovators

Kelly Baron
September 19, 2018
People living around the port of Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy, are used to seeing giant slabs of the region’s signature white marble moved onto ships bound for every corner of the earth. But in the dead of night late in June, they witnessed an even bigger spectacle — a slow-moving, 3,500-ton turbogenerator built by Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), headed for western Kazakhstan, where it will be one of five generators providing power to the Tengiz oil-extraction project.
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biometrics

Selfies Against Hypertension? This Smartphone App Could Measure Blood Pressure Just By Scanning Your Face And Hand

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 15, 2018
Doctors tell many expectant mothers in their eighth month to keep an eye on their blood pressure — hypertension can be a sign of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication. In addition to schlepping to increasingly regular doctor visits, many anxious women pretty quickly figure out which pharmacy near them has the least grubby blood pressure cuff machine for a free read.
Robotics

These Robots Are Really Pushing The Envelope: A Q&A With GE Roboticist John Lizzi

Tomas Kellner
July 05, 2018
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As the executive leader for robotics at GE Global Research, John Lizzi may have one of the coolest jobs at GE. His desk is right next to a classroom-size lab filled with collaborative robots that can safely work next to humans; envelope-like devices that can worm inside a jet engine, inspect it and even fix it; and drones that can keep an eye on wind turbines and other large industrial assets. GE Reports recently visited Lizzi’s lab and talked to him about his favorite robots and the latest developments in the field.

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Innovation

Missing Out On The 10 Millionth U.S. Patent Wasn’t All Bad For This Serial Inventor

Fred Guterl
June 27, 2018
John Nelson received his 50th patent on June 19, but he didn’t feel much like celebrating. The biologist, who works at GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, had been hoping for a different kind of recognition: to have his name on the 10 millionth patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office under its current numbering system.
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