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Augmented reality

Move Over Pokémon, GE Is Testing Augmented Reality Helmets In Qatar’s Giant Sandbox

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 03, 2016
What makes Pokémon Go so addictive? Blame it on augmented reality (AR), which populates what looks like the real world with Pokémon creatures. Now that technology is being used for a much bigger play in a world beyond gaming. GE, for example, is using it to keep oil and gas flowing.
Imagine it is a hot day in the north of Qatar. A field engineer just arrived to carry out routine maintenance at one of the world’s largest LNG plants located there. She’s wearing a snazzy blue helmet that—besides keeping her safe on-site — is her link to the outside world.
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Manufacturing

Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas Industry Thrives in Italy’s Fashion Heartland

Tomas Kellner
October 31, 2016
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts for gas turbines that move oil and gas through pipelines and generate electricity.
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Minds-Machines

The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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Anne Kim: How Maryland Is Wooing Foreign Startups

Anne Kim Republic 3 0
November 11, 2014
If you’re a foreign entrepreneur looking to break into the U.S. market, the State of Maryland wants to help.
 

On the third floor of a nondescript office building perched on a busy commercial strip in College Park, Maryland, foreign-owned startups can get a boost at the Maryland International Incubator, a first-of-its-kind incubator focused exclusively on foreign companies settling in the United States.
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U.S. Slips Behind Other Nations in Energy Efficiency Ranking

July 22, 2014
The U.S. lags behind three-fourths of the world’s 16 largest economies in measures of energy efficiency, clocking in at No. 13 behind Australia, India, and South Korea, according to a new international scorecard.
Countries at the top of the list, such as No. 1 Germany, are positioned with stronger, more competitive economies that use less energy to achieve the same or better results than other nations, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, which released the scorecard last week.
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