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Hot Dam: How Hydro Storage Will Allow This South American Nation To Join The...
Water is the foundation of the South American country of Uruguay – literally. The country’s name means either ‘river of snails’ or ‘river of birds’ in Guarani, one of the indigenous languages of the...
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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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German engineers bring us closer to air taxis that’ll zip passengers between cities, British researchers replace E. coli’s genome with a synthetic alternative, and Chinese researchers design a “glue”...
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Updraft: Wind Energy Deals Show The Pace Of U.S. Renewables Expansion
Wind-powered energy isn’t new in America. In colonial times farmers relied on wind to mill grain, and during the westward push ranchers used wind to pump water. But today, wind is playing an even more...
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Silver Lining: These Remote Clinics In China Are Using The Cloud To Fight...
Heart disease is one of the scourges of modern-day China. There are 290 million sufferers of cardiovascular disease in the vast Asian nation, and the condition is responsible for around 45% of all...
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How A 3D-Printing, Grant-Hunting, Twitter-Following Teacher Teamed Up With GE...
An 11-year-old girl arrived at school one morning, her face a mix of consternation and determination. The world’s coral reefs were shrinking by the day, and she wasn’t about to stand idly by. No way....
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A Quantum Leap: This Paralympic Athlete Is Harnessing The Power of...
With surprising cheerfulness, Anna Grimaldi recounts the years of aggravation her weight-training sessions used to cause her. Born without a right hand, Grimaldi couldn’t securely grip a bar with a...
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Hot Stuff: To Build More Affordable Rocket Engines, NASA Researchers Are...
When Christopher Protz and Paul Gradl first started experimenting with building rocket engine components out of copper, the NASA engineers feared they might be wasting their time. Back in 2014, copper...
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AI-trained robots are learning to read their surroundings based on just a few visual cues, and they’re becoming better drivers too; elsewhere, smart machines on the factory floor are working in...
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Pump It Up: Energy Department-Funded Project To Explore How Hydro Storage Can...
The U.S. Department of Energy announced recently that it’s awarding a $1.25 million grant to a project team from GE Research and GE Energy Consulting to dig deeper into the possibilities of hydro...
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Dam Powerful: Software And Data Pushed This Portuguese Hydro Plant To The...
Two hours east of Lisbon, the Alqueva Dam impounds the Guadiana, a mighty river running down the southern stretch of the Portugal-Spain border. This rugged landscape, which looks from above like a...
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Lord Of The Wings: Air New Zealand Orders A New Dreamliner Fleet, Powered By...
Adventure-seeking bungee jumpers, “Lord of the Rings” fans and hunters of colossal squid have another reason to check out the remote Pacific Island nation of New Zealand: Air New Zealand is expanding...
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Scientists devised a microscopic “submarine” that could ply the deepest interiors of the human body, delivering drugs to the exact places they’re needed, while engineers built a prototype of an “air...
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Small Miracles: Pocket-Size Ultrasound Boosts Infant And Maternal Health In...
American nurse Marie Elizabeth Bell recently spent nine months in Papua New Guinea, where she worked at the Kunai Health Centre in the southwestern Pacific country’s remote Gulf Province. One patient...
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Hotter Air: Ceramics Are The Secret To Lighter, Faster Jet Engines
After examining the possibility of ceramics being used in flight in 2001, scientists from the Institute for Defense Analyses starkly concluded, “There may be more pigs flying than ceramics in the...
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What The Software Ordered: GE And Roche Launch New Digital Solution That Can...
Last year, GE Healthcare and Roche announced that they would collaborate to create clinical decision support solutions on shared digital platforms for so-called “precision health” in oncology and...
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Dam Powerful: Software And Data Are Pushing Hydro Plant To The Next Level
Hydropower plants, like all industrial assets and processes, generates an enormous amount of data, says GE Renewable Energy Chief Technology Officer Danielle Merfeld, who spoke earlier this month in...
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Team Effort: D-Day Victory Came As Many Focused on One Goal
The defeat of the Nazi terror that had taken hold of Europe started with women like Marie Kappa, a government inspector based at GE Works in Erie, Ohio, who inspected GE-produced military equipment....
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Marriage Made In Heaven: How A Ritz-Carlton Meeting Changed The History of...
Drinks in a cozy, elegant cocktail lounge have preceded plenty of marriage proposals. But perhaps only once has such a session led to the creation of the most prolific jet propulsion company in...
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They Might As Well Jump: Dreamliner Contract Has GE’s Team Leaping — Off...
It started as a lark. GE Aviation’s David Kelly and his colleague Rachel Wagner were working up a bid to supply engines for a fleet of new Boeing Dreamliners three years ago. Since the client, Air New...
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