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Knowledge Transfer: The Doctor Will See You at the Bottom of the Sea. How...
Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, writes in the company’s 2013 Annual Report, which GE released today, about the benefits of looking at innovation with a broad lens. The theme of the Annual Report,...
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A Mighty Wind: Taking U.S. Power Generation by Storm
Wind farms have delivered 30 percent of all new American power generating capacity for the last five years. Wind also supplied more than 4 percent of all U.S. electricity for the first time in 2013,...
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Fearsome Stealth Destroyer Zumwalt Becomes U.S. Navy’s First All-Electric Ship
The U.S. Navy christened this month the USS Zumwalt, the largest stealth destroyer ever built for the naval service and its first modern all-electric warship. “Traditionally, the U.S. Navy powered its...
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GE Bids to Acquire Alstom’s Energy Units for $13.5 Billion
GE announced today that it made a binding offer to acquire the thermal power, renewable energy and electricity grid businesses of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom for $13.5 billion in cash....
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Methanephysics: From Boom to Boon
On November 4, 1776, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta took a boat ride on the pristine Lake Maggiore straddling the border between northern Italy and Switzerland. Ever the scientist – he...
View ArticleHow Loud Is A Wind Turbine?
Because wind turbines are such a great source of clean, renewable energy, they’re usually greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm. But some complaints have been made that they can cause too much noise...
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Is Voyager In Interstellar Space? Confusing Signals From Little Craft That Could
Is the Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space? NASA says yes, but a small but respected community of researchers isn’t convinced. A quick review of the facts: Last year, NASA scientists penned a...
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Quieting the Crickets: Field Tests Teach Scientists New Debugging Tricks
“Crickets”, says Dominic von Terzi, “You can’t imagine the noise they make.” He’s talking about an unexpected hurdle his team from GE’s European Research Center in Munich ran into while looking for...
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Einstein’s Relativity Will Make Your Electricity Run on Time
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought political unrest to many European capitals. But the Old World was out of synch in a more fundamental way: cities, towns and villages all had ornate clock towers...
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One if by Air, Two if by Sea: How the Jet Engine that Supercharged Aviation...
When the first C-5 transport plane took off in 1968, it became the world’s largest aircraft, capable of lifting 130 tons of cargo. As tall as a six-story building and 80 yards long, the U.S. Air Force...
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The New Power Generation: These Engines Are Strong Enough to Move Mountains
In the movie Fitzcarraldo, a music-obsessed Irishman played by Klaus Kinski successfully lifts a 300-ton steamboat across a Peruvian mountain range to build an opera house in the jungle. A Peruvian gas...
View ArticleHow A Wind Turbine Works
As countries grow more populace, the demand for electricity becomes strenuous to meet especially amidst global warming. Vietnam has come up with a master plan to undertake this problem by optimizing...
View ArticlePalm Oil in Malaysia: Teck Guan Adds Energy with GE
Palm oil was first introduced in Malaysia in the 1870s and now accounts for 39% of world production & 44% of world exports. Since 1960, planted areas have increased at a rapid pace – 49 million...
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The Waters Of Life. Maintaining Our Most Precious Resource
Our Most Precious Resource Water is our most precious resource. We drink on average around four litres a day, and it is an irreplaceable element of our industry and our agriculture. Indeed it is at...
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Trip Around ASEAN With John Rice, Vice Chairman of GE & CEO of GE Global...
Vice chairman of GE and president & CEO of GE Global Growth and Operations, John G. Rice leads GE’s global markets with particular emphasis on markets such as China, India, Middle East, Brazil and...
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Water Science Experiment: Is Water Magnetic?
Water, a clear liquid substance that we use everyday. We use it for drinking, cooking and cleaning. Quite ordinary don’t you think? Not quite, if you look closer. When two Hydrogen ions bond with one...
View ArticleThe Industrial Internet
We are fast approaching a time when machines will be able to communicate and coordinate with each other in entirely new ways. These machines will be able to optimize efficiencies, reduce costs and...
View ArticleGE And Indonesia: Innovation & Partnership At Work
The post GE And Indonesia: Innovation & Partnership At Work appeared first on GE Reports.
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Electrifying Indonesia: A National Challenge
Planning for Electricity. Indonesia has a population of over 250 million people. Yet as recent as 2005, the nation’s energy demand was less than that of Norway, a country 50 times smaller. Since then,...
View ArticleLeading the Digital Transformation of the Power Industry
The need for power will never end. ASEAN is home to over 600 million people and is one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. With a projected growth of 4 to 6 per cent in the coming...
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