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Taking The Plunge: Why Ben Lecomte Plans To Swim Through The World’s Largest...
In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between California and Hawaii, there is a massive floating blanket of bottles, bags and other plastic debris chiefly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This...
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The Network Effect: This Innovative Partnership Helps New Ideas And Talented...
Few places illustrate the rapid evolution of 3D printing better than Avio Aero’s gleaming box of a factory in Cameri, a small town near Milan in northern Italy. The plant is filled with 20 sleek, black...
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Robots pitched in on delicate eye surgery, scientists 3D-printed soft shapes that can be moved by magnet and researchers figured out a way to predict who’s going to fall ill with the flu virus. We’ve...
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The Rise Of The Hybrids: This Power Plant Combines Wind And Solar To Keep...
Dan Juhl was building a wind farm in Woodstock, Minnesota, back in 1998, and he’d hit a snag. He needed to supply electricity to a small office building for the farm’s engineers and operators, but he...
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GE, The Next Chapter: GE CEO Lays Out Plans For The Future Of The Company
GE announced major changes to its business portfolio today designed to stimulate growth and generate more value for shareholders. GE’s Aviation, Power and Renewable Energy units will form a new core of...
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Quinquagintuple Nelson: Missing Out On The 10 Millionth U.S. Patent Wasn’t...
John Nelson received his 50th patent on June 19, but he didn’t feel much like celebrating. The biologist, who works at GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, had been hoping for a...
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New Power Generation: Why America’s Largest Electric Utility Is Adding...
Electric power was still a luxury few could afford when American industrialist James Buchanan Duke and his partners decided to build a clever system of lakes and dams on the Catawba River, which runs...
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Scientists in Japan developed a flying DRAGON robot, their peers in California built artificial human immune cells that could one day fight cancers, and a team at NASA found a way to make jets quieter....
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Testing, Testing: How A Colorado Turbine Helped GE Expand Its Wind Business
As wind whistles down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, it picks up a lot of speed. It’s not unheard of for gusts of up to 100 miles per hour to slam into the rolling green foothills just...
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Power Pool: Here’s What It Takes To Electrify West Africa
In parts of West Africa, an act as simple as walking into a room and turning on a light can be something of a luxury. Only half the population has access to electricity, which means 188 million people...
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This Ship Is Fly: Why Powering Ships With Modified Jet Engines Has Been A...
The U.S. Navy’s sophisticated and versatile littoral combat ships (LCSs) can chase down speedy enemy boats in shallow waters, hunt for diesel submarines in the open ocean and defuse mines at any depth....
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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These Robots Are Really Pushing The Envelope: A Q&A With GE Roboticist John...
As the executive leader for robotics at GE Global Research, John Lizzi may have one of the coolest jobs at GE. His desk is right next to a classroom-size lab filled with collaborative robots that can...
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This week we learned about a cloaking device that helps medicine sneak up on cancer cells, a tiny brain for a tiny drone, and “smart outlets” that can learn the difference between harmless power surges...
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Just Deserts: This Wind Turbine Can Handle Sandstorms And Desert Sun
When it comes to renewables, hot desert can an oasis for solar power, but there are two big reasons why wind farms rising among sand dunes were — until recently — just a mirage. “Heat and sand make it...
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Empire Strikes: GE Scientists Studied Lightning Atop New York’s Iconic...
Electrical storms and lightning have been around since Earth’s infancy – possibly even sparking first life. Yet 4.5 billion years later we still understand strikingly little about how they work,...
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Power Trip: How Energy Saved By GE Factories Helped Electrify African...
Borena Tiki, a schoolteacher who lives in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, has recently experienced something monumental: the opportunity to charge his cellphone any time he likes.As of June 27, the tiny...
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Before These Parts Are Fit To Print: This Virtual Factory Software Takes 3D...
You probably wouldn’t print a letter without carefully composing and editing it on a computer screen first. So it’s fitting that as companies embrace 3D printing, their workers are spending a lot of...
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Answering Pakistan’s Burning Question: How To Ignite Lignite?
Buried 1,000 feet below the parched Thar Desert in Pakistan lies more fuel energy than all the known oil in Iran and Saudi Arabia combined. Just a small fraction of this 175-billion-ton lignite coal...
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Artificial intelligence is figuring out how to see through walls, predict human IQ, and clean up grainy pictures — with the help and input, of course, of some extremely savvy researchers. In this...
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