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Dan Jackson: 7 Oil & Gas Jobs That Will Exist in the Future
Over the coming decades, all industries will be transformed by converging technological trends that dramatically alter how companies do business. This will undoubtedly lead to many current jobs...
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Dana J. Hyde: In the Developing World, the Right Data Can Be a Game Changer
Data can help channel private-sector investment and incentivize reforms, creating a positive cycle for development. A small American energy company is looking to expand into the developing world. It...
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Say Goodbye, Say Hello: GE Stops Making CFLs, Says Go, Go, Go To LEDs
GE is breaking up with compact fluorescent lamps.This year, GE will cease production of its coiled compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for the U.S. market and instead focus its consumer lighting efforts...
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The Big Picture: Here’s What GE Will Look Like in 2016
GE released its fourth-quarter results two weeks ago, capping a pivotal year when the company sold much of its lending business and embraced software to become the world’s largest digital-industrial...
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Marcelle Arak and Sheila Tschinkel: Why Do Oil Prices Keep Going Down?
Despite declining prices, oil producers and consumers haven’t shown much inclination to change their behavior. Here’s why. Global stock markets have been in a tailspin. And the sinking price of oil...
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Jet Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers Next-Gen Boeing 737 MAX For The First...
The latest-generation Boeing 737 MAX, powered by a pair of advanced LEAP-1B engines, made its maiden flight last Friday in Seattle. The flight lasted 2 hours and 47 minutes. “The flight was a success,”...
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Lorenzo Simonelli: Let’s Have the Courage to Change the Things We Can
Instead of living in fear of uncertainty in oil markets, we must think creatively and collaboratively to change the future of the industry. I won’t be the first oil executive to tell you that we live...
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Follow The Digital Thread: How GE’s Off To See Profit In The Age Of Cheap Oil
Over the last several decades, companies have used tools like Six Sigma and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to squeeze the most out of their factories. But in hard times that may not be...
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That’s So Nice: Electricity’s Digital Future Has Dawned On The French Riviera
The commune of Carros in the south of France straddles a leafy valley tucked away a short ride from Nice and the beaches of the French Riviera. Like much of Provence, the medieval town of 11,000 swells...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
From contact lenses that double as computer screens to roads in France paved with solar panels, the past week brought a grab bag of breakthroughs, including a mushroom burial suit that turns bodies...
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A Bespoke Suit of Carbon and Steel: Wearable Robotic Exoskeletons Help...
SuitX, a company in California, has built a robotic exoskeleton that weighs just 27 pounds and allows wearers to cover a mile in an hour—a 4-minute mile pace for such machines. As futuristic as the...
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Kevin Moss and Debora Frodl: Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water...
The water-energy nexus presents a growing challenge for many parts of the world. We need collaboration among the public and private sector to come up with creative solutions to resource scarcity. Few...
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed...
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Chris Heathcote: How Better Data Can Help Address the Global infrastructure Gap
To attract the trillions of dollars needed in infrastructure investment to fuel global growth and create jobs, we need better information about what’s working and why. There are many varying estimates...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots from their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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As Right As Rain: This Funny Weather App Will Light Up Your Day
Many clouds have a silver lining. Poncho, the irreverent weather app from Betaworks, just teamed up with GE to help you find it. “Our thesis is that people don’t necessarily want to know what the...
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Follow The Digital Thread: How GE’s Off To See Profit In The Age Of Cheap Oil
Over the last several decades, companies have used tools like Six Sigma and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to squeeze the most out of their factories. But in hard times that may not be...
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This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source...
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with...
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Christine Todd Whitman: What Clean Energy Source Can Outshine Solar and Blow...
Overlooking nuclear energy as part of America’s clean energy strategy would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament. Clean, green and reliable — these should be the core elements of our nation’s energy...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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