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Re-Joyce: GE to Launch Breakthrough Pump Jet for Offshore Vessels

May 09, 2013

Ever since Ulysses plunged his oar in the wine-dark Aegean Sea, mariners have been looking for an efficient way to move a ship. Greek galleys anticipated Robert Fulton’s paddle wheel, which was put out of business by the screw propeller. But GE engineers now built and patented a new machine that attaches to the bottom of a ship like a jet engine to an aircraft wing, and looks like one too. The device, called the Inovelis pump jet, can swivel 360 degrees around its axis and push the ship in any direction without a rudder.

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What We Need To Win: GE Hires 1,000 Vets in 2012, Hits Its Goal

November 13, 2012

Two summers ago, U.S. Army Sergeant Kreg Smith was on his second tour in Iraq, shooting down mortars lobbed by insurgents at his base inside the Sunni Triangle. But since then, he has traded Iraq for a more peaceful neighborhood. He is making turbine parts for jet engines at GE Aviation’s plant in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, as one of a thousand veterans hired by GE this year. Thanks to vets like him, GE has hit its goal of hiring a thousand vets in 2012.

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GE seeks stable future for Renewable Energy Target

September 18, 2012

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA---18 September, 2012--- General Electric (GE) has urged the Climate Change Authority not to recommend further changes to the national Renewable Energy Target in its first biennial review.

In its response to the Climate Change Authority's Issues Paper, GE has highlighted the need for regulatory stability following wide-ranging change and corrective action taken on the RET over the last five years, as well as the current risk to some elements of the complementary Clean Energy Future package.

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GE New Zealand first site globally to achieve CEMARS® certification

September 04, 2012

Auckland, New Zealand -- 5 September 2012 -- In another step towards doing business in a low-carbon economy, GE New Zealand has been awarded the CEMARS (Certified Emissions Measurement and Reduction Scheme) certification, making New Zealand GE's first global location to achieve this status.

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GE announces $10 million in funding for clean technology innovation in Australia and New Zealand

August 20, 2012

Sydney -- Australia, 21 August 2012 -- In collaboration with five venture capital partners, GE today pledged $10 million to find, fund and bring to market breakthrough ideas for reducing our carbon footprint from Australia & New Zealand.

GE's first ever local ecomagination Challenge is an open innovation competition which calls on businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students to submit real ideas for low carbon solutions and technologies.

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Australian icons have their say on the country's future - everyday Australians urged to join the conversation

March 14, 2012

Melbourne, 15 March 2012: A host of Australian personalities have shared their thoughts on Australia's future as part of a nationwide poll being carried out by GE to understand in two words, what everyday Australians think are the biggest challenges facing the country's future.

The two words might be 'climate change', 'better healthcare', 'ageing population', 'house prices', or 'The Ashes' but GE wants to know what the Australian public thinks.

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