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STEM in Laos - Women Eye Welding and Engineering Jobs in the Hydropower Sector

April 03, 2018
“When I was at school thinking about jobs, I never thought about welding, or engineering, or the power industry. I thought these jobs were for men only, but after attending the welding course I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it – it’s given me a lot of confidence and I will consider engineering jobs in the future,” Lattana, welding student.
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Energy

Energy Makeover: How Operational Know-How And Software Helped Recharge A Stalled Power Plant Project In Mexico

Amy Kover
March 09, 2018
Early in 2015, Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.5 million people just south of the border from El Paso, Texas, was set to get an electricity makeover and the plan was taking shape beautifully.
The country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) had tapped the Spanish power company Abengoa to build a state-of-the-art 900 megawatt combined cycle power plant  that would burn natural gas sourced from Texas. GE’s Power business prepared to outfit the bold new power plant with four gas turbines and accompanying generators.
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Energy

LED There Be Light: Walmart Is Sprucing Up Stores, Driving Down Bills With New Lights

Kristin Kloberdanz
February 13, 2018
Last fall, a woman shopping at Walmart in Livonia, Michigan, approached the store manager with an unsolicited comment. “I don’t know what you did in here,” she said, “but suddenly I can read your food labels.” The reason? Not the packaging. The lettering was the same size and color it had always been. The only difference: Walmart had changed the lights.
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Energy

Small Change, Big Effect: How A New Gas Turbine Is Helping Fuel Vietnam's Economic Boom

Dorothy Pomerantz
January 29, 2018
Thirty years ago, Vietnam was in a deep economic crisis. Still struggling to recover from the war, much of the country was living in abject poverty. It wasn’t unusual to walk into a home and find people without electricity. Hyperinflation of 775 percent meant that people had to wait in long lines and bring piles of money to pay for even the most basic goods.
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Energy

Meet The Scottish Farm Girl At The Top Of The Oil Industry

P D Olson
January 29, 2018

Before Louise Goetz became one of the first women to work the floor of an oil and gas equipment factory, before she helped lead a major European workforce and before she sold oil field equipment to the world’s biggest oil companies, she was standing in a rain-soaked field in Scotland, shooing bulls away from people’s gardens as they were moved from one field to another.

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geothermal

Rumbling Mt Agung Highlights Immense Geothermal Power That Lies Beneath The Earth

January 04, 2018
 
All eyes are on Bali right now as Mt Agung, a famous landmark on the island, is anticipated to erupt. In late September, Mt Agung rumbled back into life forcing many residents to evacuate their homes in case of a major eruption.
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New Zealand’s innovation ecosystem

Jane Nicholls
The magical special effects that come out of Wellington’s Weta Digital are fire-breathing, big-screen evidence that New Zealand is a digital-innovation hothouse. And it goes way beyond the movies. Digital Planet 2017, a study by the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts, measured the digital evolution of 60 countries, evaluating supply and demand conditions, institutional environment and innovation and change. It ranked New Zealand among the Stand Out nations, classed as having high levels of development and innovation.
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Power Play: This Software Takes The Guesswork Out Of Energy Demand

Bruce Watson
October 19, 2017
The Cameri plant employs eight specialized hourly workers feeding the machines with powder, removing and cleaning the printed parts, and doing maintenance. There are also nine manufacturing engineers, who keep improving the production process. Says one of the engineers, Dario Mantegazza, about 3D printing: “You have the ultimate manufacturing freedom.”
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How Thailand Plans To Optimize Its Energy Balance And Efficiencies

October 11, 2017
Like its famous spicy, salty, sweet, and sour flavoured cuisine, Thailand’s anticipated power generation energy mix in 2036 will be equally well-balanced, working in harmony, with no single fuel source dominating.
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Electricity

Where Turbines Are Born: An Inside Look at GE’s Big Iron Maternity Ward

Tomas Kellner
October 04, 2017
There are places in the world that make us feel small and force us to marvel at the skills and ambitions of their architects and engineers. They include cathedrals in Europe, NASA's Cape Canaveral rocket launch pad or the Panama Canal. GE’s gas turbine plant in Greenville, South Carolina, may not be on everyone’s list. But it comes close.
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