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Generation Next: Wind Already More Powerful Than All Nuclear Plants Combined
May 16, 2017, was a bright day for renewables in California. America’s most populous state hit a new renewable energy record, generating 42 percent of its electricity from wind and solar that day and...
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GE, Partners Sign $5.5 Billion In Agreements With Vietnam
As recently as the 1990s, it wasn’t unusual to walk into a home in Vietnam and find people living without electricity. Children did homework by the light of oil lamps and candles, and parents cooked...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Synthetic biologists at Boston University hacked human cells and made them add and subtract numbers, their peers at MIT bioprinted a bacteria-ridden fabric that will keep sweaty gym rats cool, and a...
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Get Smart: Utilities Can Benefit From Connected Homes
The smart-home business had a value of $47 billion globally in 2015, and it’s expected to grow at 14 percent annually. But utilities need to move particularly fast in this business, according to Oliver...
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GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as...
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How Would Engineers Build The Golden Gate Bridge Today?
It’s been 80 years since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to San Francisco traffic. While technology has advanced, the beloved landmark’s upkeep costs remain high – is there a better way to span this...
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How The Digital Grid Can Help Save The Planet
New solutions are enabling a cleaner and more efficient global power system, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Juan M. de Bedout, Chief Technology Officer at GE...
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GE’s “In The Wild” Series Goes Under The Hood of a CT Machine
In the time it takes for your heart to beat once, GE Healthcare’s Revolution CT scanner can capture a detailed picture of your body. What sorcery is this? Alie Ward and Adam Savage, the hosts of GE’s...
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Sea Change: This Software Is Making Offshore Choppers Fly Safer
Automation and technology have made working on an oil rig easier, but it’s still a tough job — in no small part because of the weather. In the North Sea, for example, many rigs face howling gales,...
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Yes, You Can: Engineer Molly Stieber Tells Women Interested In Tech To “Get...
Molly Stieber has wanted to build robots since she joined her Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, high school robotics team 14 years ago. But she’s had to push back against assumptions about women in science for...
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The Biggest Tech To Hit Wall Street Since The Internet is Not Yet Ready For...
It’s not an overstatement to say that blockchain is one of the most evangelized technologies out there today. Everywhere you look new companies are promising that blockchain will be a game changer for...
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Cambodia’s Cleanest Power Plant Will Light A Path To Economic Rebirth
It’s been almost 40 years since the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge ended and many Cambodians started returning from exile to start a new life at home. As a result, Cambodia is an extremely young...
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The Future Of Work In Europe: Creating More Winners And Fewer Losers
For the past thirty years, we have celebrated the huge benefits of globalization, with too little attention focused on its drawbacks. At the outset we should acknowledge that the benefits of...
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The Metal Head: How A High School Dropout Built A Pioneering 3D Printing...
Frank Herzog was still in elementary school in the historic Bavarian city of Bamberg when he fell in love — with metals. So ardent was his passion that he later quit high school to pursue it. “I was...
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Seeing Logistics In 3D: The Democratization Of Manufacturing
From hearing aids to jet engines, 3D printing is revolutionizing the world of manufacturing. How will commerce change when thousands of products, from cell phones to blenders, are customizable? Even...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Engineers in the U.S. built a tiny cyber-backpack that allows them to control a dragonfly in flight, their colleagues at MIT equipped a robot with sensors that gave it a sense of touch and their...
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Air Travel Exposes You To Radiation – How Much Health Risk Comes With It?
This past April, business traveler Tom Stuker became the world’s most frequent flyer, logging 18,000,000 miles of air travel on United Airlines over the last 14 years.That’s a lot of time up in the...
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Taking Charge: GE Bundles Batteries With Largest Steam And Gas Turbines
On a warm and windy day earlier this month, the United Kingdom set a new record. Half of all the country’s energy on June 7 was produced by solar, wind and other renewable sources of electricity. Wind...
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Laser Metalz: Bionic Design Is The Next Frontier For 3D Printing
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, which makes the world’s largest industrial printer for metals. His printers can already produce delicate jewelry and medical implants as well as...
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John Flannery Named Chairman and CEO of GE
Today, John Flannery, current president and CEO of GE Healthcare, has been named CEO of GE effective August 1, 2017. Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, will remain Chairman of the Board through his...
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