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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, try to build a better flight ejector seat, and use...
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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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Ken And The Art Of Jet Engine Maintenance: How A Father-Daughter Team Learned...
Kenny Glasgow has never set foot in an executive suite, but that didn’t stop him from taking a private plane to the office. In the 1960s, Glasgow — who spent his career fixing jet engines at GE...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Mushrooms are producing electricity, wearable tech can regenerate frog legs, and a possible new particle could help physicists better understand the primordial soup of the universe. It’s a veritable...
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Bad CO2, Good CO2: GE Scientists Use Climate Change Culprit To Make Cleaner...
It’s one thing to design something on paper, another to build it. GE engineers got that first thrill of seeing their designs take shape in San Antonio in October, when GE partner Southwest Research...
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A Longer Leash For Drones: Federal Regulators Allow Avitas Systems To Work...
If you live in oil country, you know what a nodding donkey is. The name derives from the continual up-and-down motion of the arm of a pump pulling crude from an oil well, which suggests a donkey lazily...
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Air Born: How A Secret World War I Project Launched GE’s Aviation Business
Last weekend, the world remembered 100 years since the end of World War I, a conflict that changed the map of Europe and left an estimated 17 million people dead. But amid its devastation and...
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All That Jazz: GE Opens Wind Turbine Blade Test Center At NASA Rocket Factory...
There are few places in the world like NASA’s rocket factory in New Orleans, where the U.S. space agency and its contractors are building the Space Launch System. It’s the most powerful rocket ever...
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The WOW Factor: A New Breed Of Record-Breaking Planes And Jet Engines Is...
Reykjavik in January isn’t the cheeriest place. Darkness reigns for most of the day — the sun rises at 11 in the morning and sets just five hours later. The temperature hovers around freezing, and rain...
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GE Names New Leadership For Its Power Units, John Rice Returns To GE
Two weeks ago, GE said that it intends to split Power into two units: GE Gas Power, comprising the Gas Power Systems and Power Services divisions, and GE Power Portfolio, which will hold Power’s Steam,...
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Transformation In 3D: How A Walnut-Sized Part Changed The Way GE Aviation...
A jet engine fuel nozzle doesn’t look like much. Shaped like a water faucet perched atop two stubby legs, it resembles a forgotten piece of plumbing equipment small enough to hold in the palm of a...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Neural networks can create fake fingerprints to fool biometric scanners, while elsewhere researchers are printing electric circuits onto temporary tattoos. This week, all the coolest discoveries fit to...
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Shades Of Green: Wind-Battery Hybrid System Debuts In Ireland
In a remote corner of western Ireland known for producing jockeys, rebels and poets, an evolution in renewable energy is taking place. GE is putting the final touches on the world’s first commercial...
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GE’s Aircraft Leasing Unit On Track To Earn $1.2 Billion In 2018
Back in 1967, Allegheny Airlines, now U.S. Airways, was a small business with a big idea — connect dozens of American cities with regular flights. But to do that, Allegheny needed expensive planes. GE...
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‘They Brought Her Up To My Face, And I Thought I Was Saying Goodbye’: Just...
In the corner of the second-grade classroom at Safa School in Dubai, Grace’s nose is buried in a Harry Potter book. She looks like any other eager 9-year-old reader. Only the pinprick scars on her...
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Time Flies: GE’s Original Flying Testbed Jets Off Into History
The history of GE and modern aviation are closely linked. Few symbols embody the connection more than the original GE flying testbed, a 49-year-old Boeing 747-100 that served as an airborne lab for...
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