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Catching A Breeze: GE ‘In The Wild’ Reveals How Clean Wind Power Travels Across Oceans

May 26, 2017
It’s hard enough to build a wind farm in the middle of the blustery North Sea. To be of any use, engineers must link up the wind turbines with massive transformers tethered to land by miles-long underwater cables that carry electrons to customers.
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Renewables

She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This Woman’s Job

March 20, 2017
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch. The electrons need to travel 50 miles (80 km) under the sea and then another 50 miles undergroud to make themselves useful. Sibylle Stefan’s job is to get them there.
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best of 2016

10 Tech Stories From 2016 You Should Know About

Tomas Kellner
December 27, 2016
A power plant hidden in a cave drilled deep into the Swiss Alps, a jet engine so large it could swallow Shaquille O’Neal with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders and DNA research that's helping doctors fine-tune the immune system to fight disease. These are some of the best science stories from 2016 that involved GE technology. Take a look.
 

Mountain Of Power
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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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Renewables

Ship Shape: This Floating Offshore Wind Farm Could Be The Future Of Renewable Energy

August 30, 2016
France generates three-quarters of its electricity in nuclear power plants, but that figure is changing. The country aims to generate one-third of its energy from renewable sources. Solar and wind farms have been popping up everywhere, and now the country is reaching to a solution so groundbreaking it will never touch land at all: the floating wind turbine. “Floating wind farms are very innovative and can be a crucial part of the energy mix of the future,” says Léonore Petit, strategy and business development coordinator at GE Renewable Energy.
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Turn, Turn, Turn! Block Island Wind Farm Construction Complete

August 22, 2016
America’s first offshore wind farm is ready to start making history.
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climate

Inaction On Climate Change Is Costing Us Lives And Money

Peter Lapuma
August 05, 2016

Peter LaPuma, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, sits down with GE Reports to discuss society’s “inevitable transition to cleaner energy sources,” and what’s missing from the climate change debate.

 

  1. You focus a lot on climate change in your work. Where are you seeing the most progress?

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Offshore Wind

This Giant Ship With Legs Must Be The Strangest Sight On The Atlantic

July 21, 2016
From a luxury liner crossing the cold waters of the north Atlantic, Brave Tern may look like an uncharted island rising from the sea. But sail closer, and you will see an unusual ship making history. The boxy, 132-meter-long, 39-meter-wide wind turbine installation vessel framed by four soaring steel columns is carrying five massive nacelles for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm.
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Renewables

My Turbine Lies Over The Ocean: It Takes Herculean Labor To Build America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

July 06, 2016
Eric Crucerey and his team can move mountains. Well, maybe not mountains, but machines that dwarf the Statue of Liberty.
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes

Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2016
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live there are used to making very big things.
The world’s fastest and largest liners, including Normandie and Queen Mary 2, sprung from its dry docks. The port also serves as a transit hub for the fuselage and wings that make the double-decker Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
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