Five hundred years ago, Florence native Leonardo da Vinci sketched perhaps the world’s first gas turbine. The device, called “chimney jack,” was a pair of curved blades attached to a rod and placed inside a chimney. Hot air rising through the chimney spun the blades and powered a roasting skewer [...]
General Electric reported fourth quarter financial results this morning. One number that jumped out was the staggering size of the company’s backlog: $200 billion in orders and commitments, the largest in GE history.
What are some of the products in high demand? Start with GE Aviation. The world’s largest and most [...]
Investors have bet billions on developing new forms of energy, so far with mixed results. Engineers at GE Oil & Gas took a different tack. They focused on waste heat. Today, they are pulling clean power out of a lot of hot air.
A typical gas turbine wastes as much [...]
GE launched a new gas turbine option in Houston today, the 50-megawatt (MW) FlexAero* LM6000-PH, that responds quickly and flexibly to fluctuations in demand without sacrificing efficiency, meaning it’s particularly well suited to work in tandem with renewable energy sources like wind and solar. How fast is the new turbine? [...]
One of the challenges of achieving sustainability in a rapidly expanding global economy is figuring out a way to get closer to the local markets in need of, say, energy, equipment, technology and repair services, and people to run it all.
GE is making a big commitment to doing just that [...]
This week’s edition of the Txchnologist, an online magazine presented by GE, tackles natural gas as “the bridge to renewable energy.” Below, an infographic that illustrates the big difference in average emissions from coal-fired power plants versus those from natural gas-fired combined cycle plants.
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