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Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His...
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power...
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Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The...
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information...
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Turn Me On: The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa
A floating power plant isn’t something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you’d see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are bobbing in the ocean.They might...
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Unlocking The Environmental Potential Of The Digital Grid
Breakthrough digital grid technologies are more efficient, reduce emissions and can contribute to a cleaner global power system. Electric grid systems can be centuries old, but a host of digital and...
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Thousand Power Islands: These Technologies Will Help Turn On The Lights In...
From Jakarta’s glittering glass towers—which seem to grow as fast as rattan—to remote fishing villages with no plumbing and electricity, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. Spread across some 18,000...
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Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.At this week’s...
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Data Up Close And Personal: Welcome To Social Media ‘Hyper-personalization’
Social media is continuously changing the way companies advertise in a bid to win the internet retail game. These days, hyper-personalization is intensifying the race to use data in every facet of a...
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Supporting Trade, Not Aid, In Africa
When it comes to Africa, President Obama’s mantra has always been “trade not aid.” Two years ago he put that idea into practice at the first U.S. – Africa Business Forum, which drew $33 billion in...
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Turnt4Turbines: Top Photogs Shoot Block Island Wind Farm
It’s the last week of summer. Sunset. You’re 3 miles out to sea, 500 feet above the churning waves in a little red helicopter with (you hope) a trusty seatbelt and no door.Roughly at eye level, a white...
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What’s Holding Back VR?
Despite major publicity and significant corporate investments in virtual reality platforms, the prevalence of VR systems has a long way to go. Still, Christian Talmage, a VR consultant, explains why...
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This New Iraqi Electric Plant Is Restoring Power to the People
A decade ago, some parts of Iraq averaged a mere four hours of electricity per day. Today, the typical Iraqi still only has 16 to 18 hours of power daily and only a few regions can count on electricity...
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A 200-mile-long long lightning strikes in Oklahoma. A flashlight with the strength of 21,000 suns is now a thing. Black roofs may soon reflect as much sunlight as white ones. Who knew?The Universe Has...
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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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Wait And Sea: Merkur, Germany’s Massive Offshore Wind Farm, Is Finally Taking...
The North Sea is known for some epic swells. The rollercoaster ride involving Merkur, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms, lasted nearly five years.Located 28 miles off the sandy beaches of...
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Thought The Industrial Age And Information Age Were Something? Wait Until The...
One of the best things about artificial intelligence systems is that once one learns an area of expertise, they all know it through networked learning. With intelligence augmentation, consumers won’t...
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Esperanto For Machines: GE And Bosch Partner To Help Machines Talk To Each Other
When the machines of tomorrow talk to each other, what language will they speak? Will a German car be able to communicate with traffic in America, and a jet engine from Cincinnati with a maintenance...
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Like A Diamond In The Rough, This Abrasive Material Finds Its Place In The Sun
In 1891, Edward Acheson was working at Thomas Edison’s famed Menlo Park laboratory, trying to make artificial diamonds by heating clay and powdered coke in an iron bowl with a carbon arc light. The...
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Dammed If You Don’t: Why The US Will Lose Big Without Investing In Hydropower
Hydropower – energy that comes from water flowing through turbines in dams – is referred to as America’s first renewable electricity source. Kristina Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro, GE...
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Japan’s First Digital Power Plant Goes Live
The massive gas-fired Futtsu Power Station, which forms a small peninsula in Tokyo Bay, is capable of generating 5,040 megawatts of electricity for millions of Japanese homes and businesses. Made up of...
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
This week, our extraterrestrial hearing improved with a giant new radio telescope and we also learned of a visionary plan to build a city on Mars. Scientists found a new type of filling that can heal...
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