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3D Printing

Meet The Bespoke Toothbrush: An Everyday Ritual Brings 3D Printing Home

Amy Kover
November 02, 2017
Andrea Pasquali has 3D printed products as big as a working car engine and as small as a set of dentures.
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How The Latest Technology Is Transforming The Oldest Green Power Plants

Bruce Watson
October 25, 2017
Scandinavian power company Fortum is the top producer of "certified" renewable electricity in Finland and Sweden. Much of it comes from 169 hydroelectric plants, some more than a century old, that use fast-flowing water to spin turbines and generate power. But how do you make sure that something built during the flapper era remains reliable and up to snuff?
Give it a brain.
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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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History

The Sword In The Virtual Stone: These Eyes Can Peer 1,600 Years Into The Past

October 10, 2017
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.
Lück believed that the precious, 1,600-year-old artifact, which measured just 3.6 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide, contained scriptures in Mandaic — the language of an ancient gnostic religion dating back to Christ's birth. She wanted to read the verse, but unrolling the scroll would destroy it.
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Size Matters: The Next Big Thing In Wind Turbines

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2017
In the race to supply the world with carbon-free renewable energy, there have been encouraging signs in wind power, with costs there falling by half over the last decade. How might a turbine manufacturer get those prices even lower? Go big.

GE's French Wind Turbine Factory Will Power Germany's Renewables Revolution

Tomas Kellner
September 08, 2017
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From a distance, the large blacktop parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looks like the Galactic Empire’s base for AT-AT walkers. Over the last few months, the field has been slowly filling up with rows of massive gray-and-red behemoths rising 10 meters from the ground.

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A Massive Wind Investment Restores Spain’s Standing As A Leader In Renewable Energy

Maggie Sieger
August 24, 2017
The dry “cierzo” that blows through Aragón, Spain, is so strong that one ancient Roman scholar warned that the wind — which regularly reaches more than 100 miles per hour — could upend armies. Now Spain will use its power to fight climate change with what will be one of Europe’s highest-capacity wind farms.
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mobile

He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Mobile Solar Power Plant Charges Gadgets On The Go

August 09, 2017
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries the hard way in the late 1990s while serving in the Bolivian army.
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Renewables

Rock And Roll: A Massive AC/DC Converter The Size Of Arc De Triomphe Installed At Sea

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 11, 2017
A few days ago, Sibylle Stefan experienced a major milestone on what’s already been a remarkable personal journey. From a dock in Warnemünde in Northeast Germany, the GE project manager watched as tugboats began the slow process of moving her biggest job out to sea: a yellow block the size of the Arc De Triomphe that will help connect offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the land.
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3D Printing

Laser Focus: See How One 3D-Printing Pioneer Is Heating Up Industry

Tomas Kellner
June 29, 2017
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, a pioneering maker of 3D printing machines. Concept Laser’s printers can produce precise hip joint replacements and surgical tools as well entire engine blocks.
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