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Photographer Chris New captures a beautiful shot of the full breadth of Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island. While the five GE Haliade turbines tower 600 feet above the wa...

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We’ve officially cruised out to our #OffshoreBlockParty — with five photographers— to get a closer look at Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm....

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What if light could measure athletic performance? GE Lighting answered that question by attaching biosensors to brilliant LEDs to measure the biometrics of Olympic athletes and hopefuls. The resu...

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While our GEnx engines normally power the Dreamliner, GE Aviation’s latest version, the GEnx-2B, is optimized for Boeing’s brand new 747-8 freighter. The plane carries a quartet of these GEnx...

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GE is going under the microscope to celebrate the life sciences and feature some cool nanongrams. Here, we can see a low-magnification image of the upper body region of a common fruit fly, whic...

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Scientific practice can never exist in a vacuum and must always work in conjunction with everyday life. Rosalind Franklin was best known for her role in pioneering the use of X-ray diffraction, ...

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Last summer, Drone Week brought new perspectives on how our technology impacts the world. This year we’re taking it a step further with LIVE looks at the rarely-seen GE technology that’s pow...

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While there’s still a lot of progress to be made, over the last six years, the Earth’s global renewable energy capacity has consistently grown by at least 8% each year. At the end of 2015, it...

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Here’s an inside look at our new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) located in Pittsburgh, PA. Funded by various GE businesses, CATA brings additive technologies like 3D printi...

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This year, we celebrated Mother’s Day by sharing some incredible stories from women that have helped us build, cure, power, and move the world on the GE team. Join us by sharing your own story ...

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Happy Earth Day, Tumblr! Taking steps towards a more sustainable future requires all of us to participate on a daily basis. Whether it involves saving water, biking instead of driving, or switc...

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In 1941, while WWII raged on in Europe, a secret group of GE engineers were tasked with building the first American jet engine, bringing it to mass production, and helping the Allies win the war....

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This week, GE Aviation unveiled its new suite of engine service offerings: TrueChoice. The services combine GE’s depth of #aviation product knowledge with rapidly growing digital capabilitie...

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Traveling faster than the speed of sound is actually quite noisy, creating sonic booms that prohibit these planes from flying over populated areas. The Concorde — the first supersonic jet in pa...

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Tumblr. Here at GE, we’re celebrating with our very own Shamrock Wind Turbine. Have a great, green, energy-filled holiday! GIF by Cindy Suen .

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Happy Pi Day, everyone!  From our GEnx jet engines to the massive ecoROTR, circles and spheres are fundamental to the GE family of machines. And what better day to celebrate the beauty and uti...

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This International Women’s Day, we commemorate the legacy of Nancy Reagan, whose death at 94 was announced this past Sunday. Reagan had an impact that lasted long beyond her — or her husband�...

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What we consider possible or impossible is rarely a function of our capability. American author Robert A. Heinlein was often known as the “dean of science fiction writers.” Speculating and wr...

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When something is nearly impossible to do, people often say that it’s like “catching lightning in a bottle. ” For the members of the dielectrics lab at GE Global Research, it posed an unimp...

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What’s a snowball’s chance in hell? According to the scientists and engineers at GE Global Research, unimpossible . In an attempt to push boundaries, GE’s snowball team decided to take t...

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