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The Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online...
By Zack LordScientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. The result rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height...
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Pills on Wheels: GE is Building the World’s Largest Modular Biologics Factory
Ordering stuff online and having it shipped to your house is now as common as breathing air. But the Taiwanese manufacturer of biologics, JHL Biotech, recently upped the ante and ordered an entire...
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Touching Down on “This Cursed Rock”: First Plane Lands in Napoleon’s Last Exile
The island of Saint Helena is one of the world’s most remote places. Surrounded by the deep, cold waters of the South Atlantic, the British territory is famous for serving as the final exile of the...
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Charles Kenny: Who’s Going to Pay for Sustainable Infrastructure?
Everyone agrees on the need for infrastructure investment to drive development, but it will only happen under the right conditions.In two weeks, a teeming mass of world leaders is going to descend on...
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Ian Bremmer: 5 Patterns Disrupting the World
Five forces are shaping political risks, from climate change to conflict. Here’s what to look out for.We see patterns everywhere — in nature, in physics and in the world we’ve created — economic booms...
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Breaking New Ground: Digital Twin Helps Engineers Design Megawatt-Sized...
We’ve all stood in the dark at least once after getting tripped up by power-hungry appliances. Typically, the remedy is just steps away: a quick flip of the circuit breaker switch, and you’re back in...
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat: This Solution to Climate Change Could Be Hiding in...
One way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow down climate change is to cease burning fossil fuels. Sounds easy, but such a sudden stop would likely plunge most of today’s world into darkness...
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London Calling: Ex-Im Shutdown Prompts GE to Look Elsewhere for Export Financing
GE has signed a new export deal with the UK government that could create as many as a thousand jobs in the country.Today’s announcement comes on the heels of a similar agreement last week with the...
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A Scientist Walks Into the GE Store: Sharing Ideas Helps Engineers Leapfrog...
The first GE research lab opened in a barn behind a scientist’s home in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1900. Three people worked inside the wooden structur before it burned down a year later.It was an...
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Smart Streets Are Made of These: San Diego Deploys America’s First...
The denizens of the world’s sprawling megacities all face similar daily challenges: traffic, busy sidewalks, packed puclic transportation, no available parking. “Urbanization is coming at us like a...
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Aneesh Chopra: Startup Government
Beneath the noise of the Obamacare rollout, a quiet revolution was taking place in how government delivers digital services.Over the past year, Uncle Sam sought to scale up the approach to providing...
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A Sense of Wonder: Photographer Vincent Laforet Tapped His Inner Child When...
In March, GE invited the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet to a remote locomotive testing facility spreading over hundreds of acres of shrubby prairie near Pueblo, Colo. Laforet hired...
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How Insights from Building Jet Engines Help Doctors Spot Faulty Insurance...
It’s an endless headache, a migraine really, for American health organizations and patients alike: claims for treatment denied by insurance companies, causing endless frustrating phone calls to get...
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The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power Plant: A GE Store Story
For most people, Thomas Edison is the man who came up with the first practical light bulb. But Edison was also an inveterate entrepreneur who parlayed his patents into new industries and enduring...
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Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent...
Few people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to...
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Cesar Cerrudo: Securing the intelligent City
As they invest in smart technologies to improve services and save money, cities also need to step up security against cyber threats.Cities are incorporating new technologies at an increasingly rapid...
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A Date with Data: Taking Stock of the Emerging Digital Industrial Economy
There wasn’t much talk of Messi but a lot of conversations involving machines talking to machines in certain corners of Barcelona in mid-September, when more than 4,000 humans from over 50 countries...
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Watch It Live: Minds+Machines 2015
GE is hosting the fourth annual Minds + Machines annual event, one of the defining moments of the Industrial Internet. This event, which runs September 29 to October 1 in San Francisco, brings together...
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GE to Build New State-Of-The-Art Engine Plant in Canada to Fill Gap from...
GE today announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art “Brilliant Factory” with manufacturing capacity for multiple business lines including Power & Water, Oil & Gas and Transportation in...
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Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent...
Bill Ruh believes in intelligent machines as an emerging reality, not a distant sci-fi concept. “I’m looking forward to a future where the power never goes out, where the water is always clean, where...
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