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The Odd Couple: Silicon and Carbon Don’t Love Each Other. But When They Iron Out Differences, Their Marriage Can Be Revolutionary

October 14, 2015
Silicon and carbon are reluctant partners. Although the two elements are among the most abundant on Earth, they almost never bond in nature and it takes a lot of heat and pressure in the lab to coax them into working with each other. But when they do stick together and form a material called silicon carbide (SiC), it’s something to see.
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minds-machines

Video: Minds + Machines: Software is Eating the World and GE Feels Fine

Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2015
GE held its fourth annual Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco last week. The big themes included opening Predix, the company’s software platform for the Industrial Internet, to outside developers and the launch of the world’s first digital power plant.
 
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environment

Lather, Rinse, Repeat: This Solution to Climate Change Could Be Hiding in Your Bathroom

Tomas Kellner
September 24, 2015
 
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A Scientist Walks Into the GE Store: Sharing Ideas Helps Engineers Leapfrog Competition

September 24, 2015
The first GE research lab opened in a barn behind a scientist’s home in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1900. Three people worked inside the wooden structur before it burned down a year later.
It was an inauspicious beginning for one of the largest corporate research institutions in the world. GE Global Research now employs 3,000 people and runs nine labs in the United States, Brazil, China, Germany, India and Israel.
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Solar Power

Something New Under the Sun: GE’s Industrial Grade Inverter Takes Solar Power to a New High

Tomas Kellner
September 10, 2015
Try as he might, Vlatko Vlatkovic won’t make the sun shine brighter. So when he wanted to make a more efficient solar farm, he and his team had to go for the next best thing: a gray plastic box the size of a small hut called the inverter. “It takes direct current from the PV panels and turns it into alternating current that you can use,” says Vlatkovic, chief engineering officer at GE Power Conversion. “Since the inverter system also represents as much as 20 percent of the capital costs of the farm, you could make a huge impact if you made it more efficient.”
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Rise and Shine: This Diamond-like Material is Helping Solar Power Cast a Bigger Shadow

July 28, 2015
The energy usage curves of most industrial countries – or load curves - have long resembled a crumpled fedora hat. They rise sharply at daybreak as people start brewing coffee and companies switch on machines, then peak twice – in the morning and the late afternoon, before dropping off after dinner. Utilities usually crank up their turbines and bring extra power plants online to cover the “peak” demand.
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Flash Boys 2.0: New Superfast Network Can Sync Machines Across the Continent

July 26, 2015
On July 16, one pendulum started to swing in Niskayuna, N.Y. Nearly 3,000 miles away, in San Jose, Calif., another weight hung from a fixed point also oscillated back and forth.
The motion of the first pendulum was slightly off from the other. At one point, software in New York sent a command to equipment attached to the pendulum in California to fix its movement so that the two remote instruments would swing identically (see video below).
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Business Insider’s Global List of 50 Groundbreaking Scientists Includes GE’s Brain Research Partner

July 15, 2015
Business Insider published on Tuesday its global list of 50 “groundbreaking scientists who are changing the world.“ The publication stated that "these scientists’ revolutionary research in human happiness, evolutionary biology, neutrino physics, biotechnology, archeology, and other fields is helping to advance our lives in more ways than we could ever imagine.”
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Watch this Inspire Drone Shoot Hoops with GE’s ecoROTR

June 24, 2015
It looks like a UFO stuck on a giant utility pole, but the ecoROTR – or Energy Capture Optimization by Revolutionary Onboard Turbine Reshape – could light the way to bigger, better and more efficient wind turbines. “As far as I know, there’s nothing like this in the world,” says Mike Bowman, leader of sustainable energy projects at GE Global Research.
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Hold on to Your Seats: NASA Breathes New Life Into Commercial Supersonic Flight

June 22, 2015
The team studying lightning on top of the Empire State Building used an early high-speed camera developed by Sir Charles Boys to photograph strikes. Below: A description of the work. Image credits: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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