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co2

Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 27, 2016

It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide, one of the main contributors to global warming. But one refinery on the windswept west coast of Norway will soon start sequestering CO2 by feeding it to fish.

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Renewables

This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy

Tobey Grumet
October 16, 2016
Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by combining it with hydropower. The big idea here is that the wind will generate electricity when it’s, well, windy, and the water will act as a giant battery that will discharge and modulate output when it stops blowing.
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wind

Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion

Tomas Kellner
October 11, 2016
The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $1.65 billion.
LM Wind is a global leader in wind turbine rotor manufacturing. The company builds blades for the industry’s 1.5- and 2-megawatt, meat-and-potatoes wind turbines as well as 8-megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.
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IoT

Esperanto For Machines: GE And Bosch Partner To Help Machines Talk To Each Other

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 27, 2016
When the machines of tomorrow talk to each other, what language will they speak? Will a German car be able to communicate with traffic in America, and a jet engine from Cincinnati with a maintenance shop in China?
GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations, the Bosch Group’s software and systems house, are working together to make machines and devices understand each other through a common language.
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Renewables

Wait And Sea: Merkur, Germany’s Massive Offshore Wind Farm, Is Finally Taking Shape

September 25, 2016
The North Sea is known for some epic swells. The rollercoaster ride involving Merkur, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms, lasted nearly five years.
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Nuclear Power

2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside. Here's Why.

September 16, 2016
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it's anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the average man. A pair of them, each capable of producing 1,770 megawatts—is now set to cross the English Channel to provide energy for generations.
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power

How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2016
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon declared that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
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startup

Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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From Wimbledon To Burning Man: An Inside Look At The Summer’s Largest Airshows

Tomas Kellner
September 08, 2016
The Farnborough International Airshow, which takes place every other year just outside of London, is aviation’s grand slam event comparable to Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. Boeing, Airbus, GE and all other large aircraft, engine and equipment makers come here and do big business. (GE Aviation and its joint-venture partner CFM International left with $25 billion in new deals.)
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machines

Nuts For Bolts: Claudia Meyer Makes Art From Machine Parts

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016

Artist Claudia Meyer isn’t your typical Parisian artist. She has spent the last eight years working out of a studio based inside a factory located in the industrial Paris suburb of La Courneuve, far from the Louvre or Musée Rodin. That’s because she finds inspiration in all things industrial and mechanical. Her paintings, sculptures, installations and even furniture incorporate turbine wheels and blades, massive springs from bullet trains, blueprints, and nuts and bolts.

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