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Renewables

For These Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Included: Wind-Hydro Combo Will Give German Consumers More Renewable Power

P D Olson
February 05, 2018
Ever tried riding a bicycle up a steep hill and ran out of strength? That’s when an electric bike with a built-in battery might have come in handy and carried you to the top. GE Renewable Energy is now pioneering a similar solution for wind turbines. The batteries store power when there is low demand on the grid, say, on a Sunday or at night. The batteries discharge when the wind stops blowing and people and factories need power. But the battery in question isn’t the solid mass you’d find on a bike, though. It’s millions of gallons of water.
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After Epic Road Trip, This 241-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Is Ready To Get Down To Business In Germany

Maggie Sieger
December 22, 2017
In October, employees at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade factory in Castellón, Spain, briefly left their posts to send off their biggest achievement to date — all 241 feet of it.
They sent the huge blade — four times longer than a bowling lane and the largest ever produced in Spain — to the local port, loaded it on a boat and shipped it to Germany, where it will harvest wind at the Merkur wind farm in the North Sea.
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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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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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Minds-Machines

On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter

P D Olson
June 14, 2017
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to their operators and maintenance crews through data collected from thousands of sensors.
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3D Printing

Laser Metalz: Bionic Design Is The Next Frontier For 3D Printing

Tomas Kellner
Yari Bovalino
June 08, 2017
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, which makes the world’s largest industrial printer for metals. His printers can already produce delicate jewelry and medical implants as well as massive engine blocks for trucks. They even started printing “bionic” components for planes. “Bionic design allows you to adapt structures from nature and find the most optimal solution,” says Daniel Hund, Concept Laser’s marketing director.
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3D Printing

GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as jewelry, dental implants, planes and jet engines.
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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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3D Printing

The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push In Germany

Tomas Kellner
April 24, 2017
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing to a new dimension, using it to liberate designers and reinvent manufacturing. Herzog is the founder of Concept Laser, one of the leading makers of industrial 3D printers.
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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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