Ecomagination

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for Dad, maybe a Kindle Fire for Sis, and an electric vehicle charging station for Mom to use at home with her Nissan Leaf? That shopping list is possible now at Amazon, which announced this morning it would sell the home wall-mounted WattStation, designed [...]

CFM International, a joint venture between GE Aviation and the French engine manufacturer Snecma, added a multi-billion dollar order, bringing the total to $47.5 billion in 2011 (U.S. list price).
The company announced this morning that the low fare carrier Southwest Airlines would purchase a total of 416 engines valued at [...]

Renewable energy projects such as solar and wind farms have been pumping increasingly more electricity into the grid. For example, data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency show that the output of American solar farms grew 16 times over the last decade.
But challenges remain. One of the largest [...]

This week, Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner powered by GE’s GEnx engines took off from Seattle for a record flight to circumnavigate the globe. The plane stopped only in Dhaka, Bangladesh for two hours of refueling. The flight set two new world records for its weight class in nonstop distance flown [...]

While the momentum behind electric vehicles keeps building, the electric car market has long suffered from its version of the chicken-and-egg problem. The public has been generally enthusiastic about EVs, but few people bought one because of their relatively short range, the lack of charging stations, and the long time [...]

Iraq’s economy holds enormous potential, but a sustained growth will require fixing the country’s battered infrastructure as well as investing heavily in the industrial and government sector.
GE is using its industrial muscle to help support the country’s economic pulse. This week it opens three new offices in the [...]

Later this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release a special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters. The findings will likely cover a wide spectrum of contributors to climate change and hardly settle the global warming debate.
But by the time consensus [...]