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Report: Germany’s Clean Energy Spending Outpacing Returns
Germany, once an undisputed frontrunner in the clean energy revolution, is on the verge of losing its foothold in the international race to go green, according to a recent report that evaluated the...
View ArticleChina—A Manufacturing Chimera?
Most mainstream commentators share a short lineup of suspects when they discuss the decline of American manufacturing. Popular culprits range from automation to skills shortages to offshoring. Yet...
View ArticleU.S. Slips Behind Other Nations in Energy Efficiency Ranking
The U.S. lags behind three-fourths of the world’s 16 largest economies in measures of energy efficiency, clocking in at No. 13 behind Australia, India, and South Korea, according to a new international...
View ArticleWill the Sun Become the World’s Dominant Source of Power?
Every day, somewhere in the world, up to 100 megawatts of new solar power goes online. The global capacity to transform sunrays into clean, carbon-free electricity topped 150 gigawatts of this year,...
View ArticlePower to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot...
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Das Hybrid-Kraftwerk: Power Plant Mixing Gas, Solar, Batteries and Software...
From Japan’s offshore solar plants to a tidal lagoon in Wales, countries around the world have found clever ways to tap renewable power. But nowhere is the need for ingenuity more in demand than in...
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The World Sailing Capital’s New Power Source Will Blow You Away
The large German port of Kiel sits at the end of a deep Baltic fjord that cuts into the flat coastal landscape like a bad case of chapped lips. The fjord has long protected the area’s sea merchants,...
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Supercritical Thinking: To Achieve World’s Best Performance, This Coal-Fired...
For most people, the term “next generation” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when they think of coal. After all, everything about it is old. The sedimentary rock, composed of ancient fossilized...
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How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon...
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Back To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle...
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken...
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Das Ist Techno! This Power Plant With 3D-Printed Parts Is Pumping Up Berlin...
3D printing has quickly evolved from a cool way to make plastic gizmos to an increasingly mainstream method of printing machine parts from the toughest metals. In fact, you can already hitch a ride on...
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Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common
Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower claimed that whenever he ran into a problem, he’d “always make it bigger” to see the outlines of a solution. But you don’t need to be a U.S. president to believe that bigger is...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany. Lück believed that the precious,...
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She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This...
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch....
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On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to...
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The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push...
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing...
View ArticleCatching A Breeze: GE ‘In The Wild’ Reveals How Clean Wind Power Travels...
It’s hard enough to build a wind farm in the middle of the blustery North Sea. To be of any use, engineers must link up the wind turbines with massive transformers tethered to land by miles-long...
View ArticleGE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as...
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Laser Metalz: Bionic Design Is The Next Frontier For 3D Printing
Frank Herzog is the founder and CEO of Concept Laser, which makes the world’s largest industrial printer for metals. His printers can already produce delicate jewelry and medical implants as well as...
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Das Ist Techno! This Power Plant With 3D-Printed Parts Is Pumping Up Berlin...
3D printing has quickly evolved from a cool way to make plastic gizmos to an increasingly mainstream method of printing machine parts from the toughest metals. In fact, you can already hitch a ride on...
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