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High Wind: GE’s First Greek Wind Farm Stretches From Sea To Sky
From Aeolus, the lord of the winds, to Zephyr, the god of the westerly breeze, Greece’s notable wind resources have long held a place in the nation’s psyche. So it’s perhaps no surprise that in modern...
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ROC Stars: A Desk In Barcelona’s Startup District Keeps Europe’s Wind...
The brick chimneys of Barcelona’s Poblenou district — the city’s old industrial quarter, squeezed between the avant-garde towers of Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia cathedral and the Mediterranean Sea —...
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Bavarian Rhapsody: GE Receives First Order For Cypress, The World’s Largest...
In March, GE’s Cypress, its largest land-based wind turbine in operation, started generating power in Holland. This week, the German wind farm operator Prowind placed the first order for three of the...
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Factory Records: GE Providing Procter & Gamble Greater Access To The Cloud...
We are being flooded by data. By one estimate, 90% of all data in existence has been created in the past two years, with business providing a growing share. For some, the data deluge can be daunting....
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The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America...
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Doctors learn about the positive effects of an electrical current, algorithms make plants tastier and more nutritious, and researchers get a good look at the functioning of the immune system. Plus:...
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Meet The Parents: AI Helps Take The Stress Out Of Fetal Ultrasound
Whenever Dr. Ralf Menkhaus prepares to administer future parents their first fetal ultrasound, he knows the pressure is on: Equal parts thrilled and anxious, expectant parents are desperate to catch a...
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Help Wanted: New Training Partnerships Give GE Aviation Access To Skilled...
At the Greene County Career Center in southwestern Ohio’s Xenia Township, 650 high school students spend half their day in the classroom, learning traditional subjects like math, English, and social...
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To Infinity And Beyond: These Crystal Sensors Can See Blasts From Black Holes...
In the 1960s, satellites monitoring Soviet nuclear tests noticed huge, curious flashes of radiation. Rather than coming from the ground below, they were arriving from deep space. After decades of...
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Above And Beyond: In Norway, GE-Powered Choppers Swoop In For Dramatic Ocean...
On March 23, the cruise liner Viking Sky set sail from Tromsø, a Norwegian city north of the Arctic Circle, en route to Stavanger, near the southern tip of the country. The ship passed through...
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The Vroom Vroom Room: This Mobile MRI Trailer Helps Patients On Finland’s...
Northern lights and elk steak dinners aside, living in northern Finland is not for the faint of heart. As the region is bisected by the Arctic Circle, local thermometers frequently dip below zero —...
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Just a hint of electrical stimulation to the scalp can greatly improve memory in aging people, and scientists are designing safe, responsive robots that can be taught to help out around the house....
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Cooking With Gas: This Record-Breaking Technology Will Help Israel Fight...
Located on a narrow strip of land bookended by the sea on one side and desert on the other, Israel, like many countries, is raising an alarm about climate change. Rising sea levels and frequent...
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367,000 Glasses Of Wine In The Sky … : These Number Show Why Qantas’...
Qantas Airways made big headlines last year — and generated more than $100 million Australian dollars in free publicity, according to the airline — when it launched the first nonstop flight between...
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Fast Break: Celtics Highlight STEM Equipment Delivery To Everett Students
Enrico “Rico” Vega, a seventh-grader at George Keverian, a public middle school outside Boston, wants to be a computer engineer when he grows up. He made the decision after spending a week exploring...
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Extreme Measures: At 107 Meters, The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Blade Is...
How long is the world’s largest wind turbine blade? Stretching 107 meters, the blade is longer than a football field and equal to 1.4 times the length of a Boeing 747. Using a different measure, it...
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Scientists are using 42,000-year-old DNA to try to clone an extinct horse, they’re harnessing human cells to 3D-print a functional heart for transplant, and they’ve figured out a way to construct a DNA...
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The Power Broker: This GE Engineer Is Losing Sleep To Keep Your Lights On
When Thomas Edison switched on the first electrical grid in downtown Manhattan in 1882, the project was a great engineering feat as well as a brilliant marketing ploy. Starting small, his grid covered...
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Gear Heads: Smart Tech Helps Repair Crews Restore Power Faster
A mass of electrical cables may look like spaghetti to many people, but Nicolas Godingen has become an expert at picking each strand apart in his mind’s eye.Nearly every day, the field service manager...
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An Unsung Hero: Jet Engineer John Blanton Pushed Both Technological And...
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, not many GE Aviation engineers could walk as tall as John Blanton Sr. Then one of the company’s few high-ranking African Americans, he was known for doing things deemed...
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