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The French Connection: Digital Twins From Paris Will Protect Wind Turbines Against Battering North Atlantic Gales

Dorothy Pomerantz
April 26, 2018
In the heart of Paris, a short walk from the city’s storied opera, GE engineers are busy coding software that will allow them to create “digital twins” of machines. These virtual representations of the real machines live in the cloud and use as their lifeblood data captured from their parts. The engineers are partnering with Ansys, a leader in engineering simulation software, to digitally play out different scenarios, such as running an aircraft engine longer and in a hotter or wetter environment.
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The Blade Runners: This Factory Is 3D Printing Turbine Parts For The World's Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
March 20, 2018

The Northern Italian town of Cameri could be easily mistaken for a quiet farming commune. But take a short ride through the rolling fields of the fertile Po Valley that surround it and you’ll discover a startling contrast.

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Aerospace

A New Name In Flight: The Advanced Turboprop Becomes The GE Catalyst

Tomas Kellner
March 07, 2018
Every year, millions of tourists flock to Prague, drawn by its cobbled streets, storied architecture and thousand-year history. But as alluring as its past may be, a group of GE Aviation engineers who traveled to the city last December were there to witness the future.
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After Epic Road Trip, This 241-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Is Ready To Get Down To Business In Germany

Maggie Sieger
December 22, 2017
In October, employees at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade factory in Castellón, Spain, briefly left their posts to send off their biggest achievement to date — all 241 feet of it.
They sent the huge blade — four times longer than a bowling lane and the largest ever produced in Spain — to the local port, loaded it on a boat and shipped it to Germany, where it will harvest wind at the Merkur wind farm in the North Sea.
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The Heat Camera Is On: Retailers Turn To Sensors For Insight

Bruce Watson
Dorothy Pomerantz
November 17, 2017
Online retailers have been tracking their customers and their web habits with cookies for years. No wonder their brick-and-mortar rivals are looking for new ways to play the big-data game.
The French startup IRLYNX believes it can help them set sales on fire. The company developed small heat sensors, each just 1 centimeter in diameter, that retailers can place on walls, ceilings and even in light fixtures around a store to track customers.
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Secret Weapon: This Supersonic Blaster Rebuilds Jet Parts With Flying Powder

Yari Bovalino
November 15, 2017
A few years ago, scientists working in GE labs in upstate New York came up with a cool idea for fixing broken parts. Literally. Calling the approach “cold spray,” they shot tiny metal grains from a supersonic nozzle at aircraft engine blades to add new material to them without changing their properties.
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A Night Out Of The Museum: X-Ray Vision Takes The Wraps Off Mysterious Mummies

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 08, 2017
Night reigned in Madrid, Spain, when medical staff wheeled four patients through the doors of Quirónsalud University Hospital. Stretched out on gurneys, their gaunt, desiccated bodies slid quietly through the still, empty corridors. The workers wanted to keep the visit under the wraps. Mummies, after all, can give the living the shivers.
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GE Is Helping Build A Huge Wind Farm On Santa’s Doorstep, Europe’s Largest

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 07, 2017

In Markbygden forest in the northern Sweden, the temperature drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius in the winter and bitter winds blow. That makes this area 60 miles south of the arctic circle uncomfortable for humans, but the sparsely populated region, where real reindeer roam, is perfect for a wind farm.

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How Do You Move A 3,000-Tonne Biomass Boiler From Finland To Germany? You Turn It Into A Huge Jigsaw Puzzle

Maggie Sieger
November 06, 2017
The Guinness World Record for the biggest jigsaw puzzle belongs to the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The puzzle (an image of a lotus flower) was 48 feet by 76 feet (14.6 meters by 23.2 meters) and consisted of 551,232 pieces. A GE project in Finland might rival that record for size and complexity. In this case, it’s not a jigsaw puzzle that requires assembly, but a giant Foster Wheeler biomass boiler.
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From Web To Watts: How Tech Companies Are On Course To Power Your Fridge

P D Olson
November 03, 2017
The energy market was once a largely impersonal affair for customers. They’d pay utilities, get service in return, and that was about it. But demand for renewable energy has ushered in an era of hands-on consumerism, with green-minded corporations now directly supporting its growth.
Case in point: Microsoft, which just signed a 15-year contract to buy 100 percent of the wind energy from a new 37-megawatt wind farm in the Irish countryside, built and owned by GE. The software company will use all energy produced from the farm to power its Irish data center.
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