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Point Break: Where The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Prove Their Mettle
In parts of the world like the US and Brazil where electric current oscillates at 60 Hz, there’s no larger and more efficient gas turbine than a machine that GE calls 7HA. So efficient, in fact, that...
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From Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like...
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the...
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Huge New All-Electric Stealth Destroyer Makes First Rescue At Sea
Less than a week into its maiden voyage, the USS Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy’s largest and most advanced stealth destroyer, completed its first unplanned rescue mission on Dec. 12. The 610-foot,...
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Alan Marcus: Data and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We are moving toward the fourth industrial revolution, in which mobile communications, social media and sensors are blurring the boundaries between people, the Internet and the physical world. Data is...
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A...
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials...
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Into Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.But even then they are not finished. One of the steps...
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Business Insider: GE CEO Uses His Math Major Every Day, More Than MBA
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says he uses his undergraduate degree in mathematics more often than his Harvard MBA. “I use my math major every day, I don’t use the MBA quite as much,” Immelt told...
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Andrea Durkin: Why Aren’t American App Developers Looking Overseas?
With the global market for apps taking off, exports are fast becoming an attractive proposition for U.S. software developers. There are over 1 million U.S. software developers, according to the Bureau...
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2016 Annual Outlook: Immelt Optimistic About GE’s Digital Industrial Future
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt took over Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza this afternoon to give his annual vision for the company in 2016 today. Addressing a crowd of investors and...
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This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
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Robert Glennon: Why a Higher Price for Water Makes Sense
Without sensible water prices, industry has no incentive to innovate and conserve. Industrial users are not paying enough for water. The same goes for farmers, commercial businesses, municipal...
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New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics....
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How GE Brought Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer To Life
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when GE still needed to sell the general public on the value of artificial illumination. So it made sense for the company to devote an episode of the General...
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Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code...
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now...
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Financial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology
John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held...
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Top 15 Perspectives of ’15
Explore some of the more thought-provoking opinions and lively debates among contributors to our Perspectives section over the past year. As 2015 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the...
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LED Us See the Future: From Christmas Trees to Intelligent Streets, These...
GE engineers started lighting the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. in 1963, one year after their colleague Nick Holonyak invented the world’s first visible light-emitting diode (LED).Today,...
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Into Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.But even then they are not finished. One of the steps...
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Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code...
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now...
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This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
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