News and insights from Vietnam
Switch It Up: Global Grid Leaders Join In A Bid To Help Decarbonize Their Industry
High-voltage electrical substations — those ubiquitous installations that adjust voltage up or down so that electrical power can travel over long distances and be used in homes and businesses — have for a half-century relied on a highly effective insulator and arc extinguisher that helps keep the size of their substations manageable. Trouble is that the insulator, a gas called sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), is also among the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, and it can linger in the atmosphere for millennia. So, what are electrical utilities to do?
4 technologies you may have missed in April
According to the World Health Organization, more than two billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water. Fortunately, a new solar-powered filtration system could provide clean drinking water on a small or large scale, completely off-grid. Also, can you imagine the hexagon diamond may replace the natural diamond? This month’s technologies are shining bright.
Climate Change is Local: Translating Global Goals into Local Action
The ambitious goals announced and reaffirmed on Thursday at the Leaders Summit on Climate reflect the growing consensus that today, we are at a critical moment of action. Across the globe, governments, individuals, and companies – including GE – are taking tangible steps to confront the unprecedented crisis that climate change represents. That is good news.
Celebrating Earth Day: Addressing climate change around the world
Together with our customers, GE powers one-third of the world’s energy. We equip 90 percent of utilities worldwide and manage 40 percent of the world’s energy with our software. As we commemorate Earth Day today, we are reminded of the urgent challenge to preserve our planet’s resources, a global priority that GE is working to solve.
The Big Picture: As GE Turns 129 Today, One Business Looks All The Way Back And Into The Future
Seeing The Unseen: These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife’s hand. “I’ve seen my death,” she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But engineer and polymath Elihu Thomson, who together with Edison and J.P. Morgan co-founded GE in 1892, had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen’s discovery, he modified Edison’s light bulb design and made it emit X-rays.
The Road To Decarbonization: How To Achieve A Lower-Carbon Future? The Energy Industry Has Some Ideas.
There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about decarbonization and bringing more renewable energy online. Proposals include extending tax credits for wind and solar power and building enough offshore wind turbines to capture 30 gigawatts of wind energy by the end of the decade — enough to power more than 10 million American homes and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 78 million metric tons.
GE Scientists Developing Technology to Add COVID-19 Virus Detector to Your Mobile Device
- Awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop tiny sensors smaller than your fingertip that can detect the presence of COVID-19 virus nano-particles on screens, tables and other surfaces
- Multi-disciplinary team from GE Research will draw from years of development and commercial success with physical, environmental, gas and biosensors for industrial monitoring
- The Team’s work has been featured in journals
The Art Of Wind Farm Maintenance: This Software Can Help Keep Wind Turbines Spinning Longer
If you regularly drive long distances, it’s good practice to pop your car’s hood every few months for a thorough inspection of the engine, transmission, radiator, pumps and brakes. But if you’re only clocking up to a few dozen miles per month from the weekly supermarket run, you may be able to take a raincheck on that quarterly checkup.
Arduous path to LNG success
In search of stable and clean energy, Vietnam has put a strong focus on liquefied natural gas, which – though being a fossil fuel – promises to outrun coal with its higher cost efficiency and lower emissions. However, experts advise developing an efficient infrastructure and set out power purchase agreements that can attract the required investment.
