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Lightning In A Bottle: This Container is Revolutionizing Energy Storage
Johanna Wellington is standing next to what looks like a shipping container. Her safety goggles are the only clues that this container isn’t quite what it seems. A look inside reveals a large array of...
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Full Steam Ahead: Egypt Picks World’s Largest Steam Turbines From GE For Its...
Like many medieval towns in France, Belfort has its share of soaring church domes and spires. But the tallest structures here don’t serve any religion — they are temples of industry.Rising from a large...
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High Tech: These Crews Keep A Close Eye On Massive Wind Turbine Blades
As Europe ramps up its investment in wind power, turbines have bloomed like wildflowers across the continent. Wind-energy production has more than doubled — from 150 terawatt-hours in 2010 to 364...
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An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To...
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A week of bio-inspiration: Scientists are figuring out how to use spider venom to treat cancer, and looking to plants for cues on making self-healing, carbon-fixing building materials. But the human...
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Life-Saving Lessons: GE Takes Safe-Surgery Funding To Southeast Asia
Odetha Deus remembers trembling earlier this year when hospital staff told her they’d need to perform an emergency C-section on her, and for good reason.Most of the global population lacks access to...
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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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