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Oil & Gas

GE Just Turned the World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine Into A 65-Megawatt Power Plant

Tomas Kellner
January 30, 2017
GE is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. The machine’s beating heart comes from the GE90-115B, which is the largest and most powerful jet engine, capable of producing 127,900 pounds of thrust, according to Guinness World Records. The electricity generator, which GE calls LM9000, will be able to generate a whopping 65 megawatts — enough to supply of 6,500 homes — and reach full power in 10 minutes.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

January 06, 2017
It’s the start of 2017, and we can’t help but wonder what amazing scientific advances await. Judging by the year’s first haul, we may soon be able to push things around with tractor beams, print electronics on paper and toast to science with a glass of chardonnay nurtured by data. Cheers!
 

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future of medicine

3D-Printed Replicas Of Organs Give Doctors New Insights

Yasuo Matsunaka
January 06, 2017

Dr. Maki Sugimoto created lifelike organ models with 3D imagery and printing to diagnose and treat patients with more information. For example, he thought surgeons could better understand a tumor's shape and position to make an incision. Sugimoto didn't realize that the first test of this technology would be used when he sustained a life-threatening spinal injury.

 

 

 
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investors

What's Next For GE In 2017: Changing The Game With A Digital Industrial Strategy

Timothy Cheng
December 30, 2016
AS: Back then I didn’t have that many friends who were interested in computers. It was like a big mystery to them. My son Steven came to visit once, and I showed him the factory and the engineering floor. I tried to get him interested in engineering, but his heart was in movies. At first I was disappointed, but then I saw how good he was in moviemaking.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
December 02, 2016
AS: Unlike the previous computers, the GE-225 — as it was called — was a business computer. It stored its own software, handling the input and output of data. We relocated the factory to Phoenix and sold it within GE as well as to the external market. GE used them for general business applications and some scientific work, but mostly to do business processing. I was in charge of the small-computer-systems group, whose job it was to design the circuits, design the logic, plan the system and put it all together.
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3D Printing

Das Ist Techno! This Power Plant With 3D-Printed Parts Is Pumping Up Berlin With Heat And Electricity

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 09, 2016
3D printing has quickly evolved from a cool way to make plastic gizmos to an increasingly mainstream method of printing machine parts from the toughest metals. In fact, you can already hitch a ride on a next-generation Airbus passenger jet that uses engines with 3D-printed fuel nozzles inside. Since last September, 3D-printed technology has helped run a large power plant near the capital of Germany, Berlin.
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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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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
October 28, 2016
Scientists in Germany used stem cells to repair damaged visual neurons in adult mice, their colleagues in China and England adapted a portion of the human gut to build a long-lasting battery, and a team at Harvard University 3D printed a heart on a chip. Who says that biology is boring!
 

 

This Design Based On The Human Gut Could Make Batteries Last 5 Times Longer
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Flight

GE’s New Aviation Plant In The Heart Of Europe Will Build Engines With 3D Printed Parts For Next-Gen Cessna Denali

Tomas Kellner
October 20, 2016
Engineering marvels such as the gothic Charles Bridge spanning the Vltava River below the Prague Castle or the ornate astronomical clock in the Old Town Square have been drawing visitors to the Czech capital for centuries. Now the city is also set to define our manufacturing future.
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3D Printing

Melting In Reverse: Magical 3D Printing Process Gets Big Industry Boost

October 07, 2016
Twenty-five years ago, director James Cameron conjured up a liquid metal robot that could assume any form in seconds. But “Terminator 2” was just a movie. The M1 printer, on the other hand, is making that fantastical vision of near instantaneous, on-demand creation a reality.
Developed by Silicon Valley startup Carbon, M1 works by plunging a flat build plate into a liquid bath of resin. An ultraviolet LED projector below then flashes a two-dimensional image—a single layer of a 3D object—through the bath’s translucent container bottom and onto the plate.
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