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Renewable Power

Let It Blow: How Brazilian Wind Farms Benefit From GE’s Largest Acquisition

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
South America’s vast Pampas stretch over three countries and cover an area larger than France. Farmers in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have long discovered the appeal of the flat and fertile lowlands. Wind farm operators, especially in Brazil, the continent’s largest economy, are now taking a second look.
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Energy

Power Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid

November 06, 2015
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of the highest electricity bills anywhere. Improving the reliability and efficiency of Brazil’s power stations — and also of the grid, which stretches across vast sections of the country — is a critical matter.
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Deep In The Amazon, Doctors Are Saving Lives

Erica Firmo
August 26, 2015
Fabiana Garcia is no Indiana Jones. But that didn’t stop her from packing her backpack with high-tech wireless medical equipment, grabbing her tent, boarding a Brazilian military plane and flying to a remote community deep inside the Amazon jungle a few weeks ago.
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What You Gonna Do in a High-Tech Canoe? Sensors and Big Data Could Make Brazil National Team’s Boats Faster

April 02, 2015
By Michael Keller
What comes to mind when you think about a canoe? William Clark and Meriwether Lewis paddling down the Columbia River? Summer evenings spent on a lake at camp?
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Lessons from Latin America on STEM Education

January 07, 2015
If math wasn’t your favorite subject in school, you’re hardly alone. But sometimes it just takes one good teacher to open a child’s eyes to the opportunities that an education in math and science can open up.
 
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Raghu Krishnamoorthy: The Most Valuable Currency

Raghu Krishnamoorthy GE
November 21, 2014
What’s the most critical currency in today’s global economy? Jobs.
 
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Kenneth Herd: Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World

Kenneth Herd GE
November 13, 2014
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation.
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Oliver Astley: Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to New Depths

Oliver Astley GE
November 12, 2014
The challenges of offshore, deep sea drilling are, in a word, immense. Imagine a place three miles below the surface of the ocean, where there is almost complete darkness and the pressure exerted on every square inch is equivalent to the weight of three automobiles.
 

That’s the type of incredibly harsh environment that GE researchers are competing with as we design electrification equipment for our customers that will power oil and gas processing functions reliably on the seabed.
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Amit Narayan: How Data Will Power the Future of Energy

Dr Amit Narayan Autogrid Inc
October 16, 2014
Throughout history, we’ve equated energy with the consumption of natural resources such as oil, natural gas or coal.
 

In the coming decades we will start to think of data and software as a source of energy.

What do I mean by that? Software won’t generate electrons, but it will let us leverage the electricity we are already generating in a more efficient and productive way.
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This Mountain of Brazilian Trash Hides Powerful Treasure

September 24, 2014

 

Most travelers don’t have a garbage dump on their travel itinerary. But for people like José Baroni, it’s the top destination.

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