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Power Play: Edison Lost The War Of Currents, But DC Networks Are Now Making A...
When Thomas Edison opened the world’s first central power plant on Pearl Street in downtown Manhattan in 1882, he revolutionized how people used electricity. Until then, most users generated their own...
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Power Play: GE Brings Its Vision For The Electrical Grid To The City Of Light
The power grid — the world’s largest machine — got its start when Thomas Edison turned on the generators at Pearl Street Station in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 4, 1882. That breakthrough gave us light...
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Zapping Blackouts: India Is Giving Its National Grid An All-Seeing Eye
Deepak Pandey still remembers the chaos of the world’s worst electrical outage. At 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, millions of people across India suddenly found themselves waiting for hours on...
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She’s Seen The Light: This GE Engineer Is Building The Power Grid Of The Future
Vera Silva remembers warm summers in her youth — and a lot of empty sugar cones. Her small town of Vale de Cambra in Portugal ran on electricity generated by the local dam. “It would go out for hours,”...
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Game On: Virtual Reality Does The Heavy Lifting For Grid Technicians In Training
A woman manipulating a towering crane lifts a high-voltage circuit breaker 10 meters above the ground. She turns the crane gently and slides the hefty circuit breaker into the correct spot in an...
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Switch It Up: This Tech Helps Take The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine...
The Haliade-X turbine has the potential to blow the offshore wind industry to the next level. Standing 260 meters tall from its heel to blade tips — more than half the height of the Empire State...
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Batteries Included: Hybrid Power Plants Let Californians Breathe Easy
As Hollywood’s awards season continues and film studios jockey for their Oscars, one Los Angeles entity has racked up enough trophies to make Warner Brothers green with envy. Southern California Edison...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists have designed a material that can morph into preprogrammed states in response to heat, a self-healing liquid membrane that filters small objects while letting larger objects pass through,...
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Their Favorite Thing: Why This Alpine Valley Is Alive With The History Of...
Nestled in an emerald valley surrounded by snowcapped Alpine peaks, the village of Zipf, Austria, looks like scenery plucked from a travel brochure. A stroll through the 600-person town reveals such...
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Slam Dunk: A New MRI Scanner Helps Offer Hope For Injured Basketball Players,...
Edwin Oei has seen a lot of knees. The musculoskeletal radiologist at Erasmus MC in the Netherlands says around half of all scans at Dutch community hospitals focus on the hardworking joint, usually...
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Spin Doctors: How GE’s Service-Savvy Approach Squeezes The Best From A Fleet...
Over 150 years ago, a budding English economist named William Stanley Jevons warned that a policy of energy efficiency might not be sufficient to conserve Britain’s dwindling coal reserves. His...
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It’s been a banner week for artificial intelligence: Scientists have found or are looking for ways where AI can help diagnose depression, predict earthquakes and fly drones. They’ve also figured out...
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Flick Of The Switch: GE Engineers Use Plasma To Convert DC To AC
In Los Angeles, people run their air conditioners using power generated by dams a thousand miles north in the Columbia River Gorge. Those in the northeastern U.S. also rely on hydropower that has a...
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A Quieter Sonic Boom: GE Is Helping NASA, Lockheed Martin Design A New...
When Chuck Yeager flew NASA’s first rocket plane, the X-1, past the sound barrier for the first time in October 1947, confirmation of his feat rang out across the desert in the form of a sonic boom —...
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Take A Load Off: How Software Is Cutting The Power Bill Of An Iconic French...
The city of Belfort in northeastern France knows all about speed and power. The hardworking town, which lies between the Vosges and Jura mountains, has made railway locomotives for nearly 150 years....
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In Alabama, 3D Printing Is Helping One Professor Teach The Engineers Of Tomorrow
Two years ago, Bart Prorok, a professor of materials engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, decided his students needed to learn about additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, if they...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Humans can now pilot drones with their brains, scientists are making an end run around the bug that causes tuberculosis, and bacteria in the belly have been found to produce a charge. We’ve got a gut...
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Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore...
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These...
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Going Viral: A New Kind Of Vaccine Could Change How We Fight Disease
The province of North Kivu, in the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been ravaged by war for much of the last two decades. But this summer, the nearly 6 million people who...
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Cooking With Gas: This New GE Turbine Is Lighting Up The Future Of Power...
In the Middle Ages, spices arriving from the East began to revolutionize European cuisine. Those who could afford to were suddenly eating meals seasoned with pepper, cloves and cinnamon. If electricity...
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