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Now Boarding The World’s Longest Flight: A Passenger Jet From Singapore Lands...
A Singapore Airlines passenger jet completed the world’s longest flight on October 12 by covering 10,291 miles between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey, in 17 hours and 52 minutes. The flight, SQ22,...
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A Leading Light: This New Electric Plant Is Helping Restore Iraq To Full Power
A decade ago, some parts of Iraq averaged a mere four hours of electricity per day. Today the typical Iraqi still has only 16 to 18 hours of power daily, and only a few regions can count on having...
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Fast Friends: The World’s First Supersonic Business Jet Gets A New Engine
The Concorde had its place in the sun for 27 years, shuttling passengers between Europe, the Americas and Singapore at supersonic speeds. But when British Airways retired the last jet in 2003 “for...
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An Eye For AI: Software Provides An Easier Path For Power Line Safety...
In 2003, Mother Nature turned off the lights on the East Coast. The reason: a short circuit a hot summer day caused on by a chance encounter between an overgrown tree branch and a sagging power line....
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In this week’s great leaps into the future, the world’s fastest camera captures light on the move, ultrasound levitation gets easier, fibers store energy in the body of a vehicle, and an...
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Let There Be Light: How GE Rebuilt An Iraqi Power Plant Destroyed By ISIS
In March 2017, the GE Power team returned to Al Qayara — an Iraqi town about 46 miles from ISIS-occupied Mosul — to see how the Al Qayara Power Plant was faring. Though the militants had fled the area...
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Fast Forward: GE Aviation’s Accelerator Is Bringing Digital Twins To...
The U.S. military has the world’s largest aircraft fleet. With 5,500 Air Force planes, 5,000 belonging to the Army and 3,500 for the Navy, the military has more air power than the top 10 commercial...
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Leading The Charge: How Battery-Electric Locomotives Are Pushing US Freight...
Trains have been a crucial part of America’s infrastructure ever since two locomotives drew nose-to-nose at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869, marking the completion of the First...
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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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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists have come up with a faster way to charge electric vehicles wirelessly, tiny flying robots can haul up to 40 times their weight, and data might travel with unprecedented security with a...
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Supercharge Me: Bangladesh Taps GE Tech To Power Decade-Long Economic Growth
In the upscale Dhanmondi neighborhood of Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, power outages happen three times a day, each lasting 30 to 60 minutes, educational consultant Khadiza Afrin told the local...
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GE Reports Q3 Earnings: Setting Up GE Businesses To Win
GE released its third-quarter results for 2018, reporting a loss of $2.63 per share from continuing operations (GAAP). Adjusted earnings per share were $0.14 and adjusted industrial free cash flow was...
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The Forever Turbine: Methuselah Machines May Come Of Age Before Humans Do
That ache in your elbow has been there ever since you pitched for your high school team so many years ago. But that persistence of the pain is something of an illusion. The human body replaces its...
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A Picture-Perfect Partnership: GE Imaging Technology Is Helping University of...
When Elizabeth Korosec started suffering dizzy spells, she and her husband, Frank, drove to the emergency room at their local hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Once there, doctors quickly agreed she...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week’s coolest scientific discoveries go to the stars and back, as scientists study the long-term effects of space flight on the human brain. They also used precisely targeted electrical charges...
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Sensors And Sensibility: Digital Technology Keeps Pipelines Healthy At The...
For the world’s largest facility of its kind, Reliance Industries’ oil refinery is surprisingly hard to find. Built on the vast alluvial plains surrounding Jamnagar, a town in the northwestern Indian...
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GE To Sell Current, Its Intelligent Environments Unit, To American Industrial...
GE announced today a proposed deal to sell its intelligent environments unit, Current, powered by GE, to the New York-based private equity firm American Industrial Partners. “The firm’s deep expertise...
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Advent International Acquires GE’s Distributed Power Business For $3.25 Billion
GE and the private equity group Advent International completed Advent’s $3.25 billion acquisition of GE’s Distributed Power business today. The unit, now rebranded as INNIO, is best known for...
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This Has Always Been My Dream: GE’s Deepak Pandey on Bringing Stability to...
Earlier this year, GE Power delivered a major upgrade for India’s power grid: a Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS) which allows engineers to track power flow across 110 substations in the country’s...
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Trading Neighbors: A New Study Will Look At Blockchain’s Potential To Power...
Imagine: On a hot, sunny day, a popular neighborhood coffee shop is teeming with people, its air conditioner blasting to keep up. Just next door, an empty home with solar panels on the roof is drawing...
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