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GE Reports
gereports.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
GE's corporate news site covers its engineering work, including 3D printing, turbines, medical imaging, and indoor farming.
What HN saysHN links it as the original source behind tech news stories, such as the CO2 turbine and Japanese indoor farm, and some find the reads interesting.
32HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory3 people · 81 points · first shared 2014 · 42 comments on HN
- 2Small turbine can generate 10,000kW using high pressure CO23 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3GE Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took It to 33,000 RPM2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 4New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail1 people · 166 points · first shared 2015 · 53 comments on HN
- 5Software-Guided Supersonic Air Blower Sweeps the Rails Clean1 people · 28 points · first shared 2015 · 8 comments on HN
- 6It’s BASIC: Arnold Spielberg and the Birth of Personal Computing1 people · 27 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Watch: Engineers 3D Printed a Model Jet Engine, Then Started it Up1 people · 24 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 8New Superfast Network Will Sync Machines Across America1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Robotic Crawler Rides Up 300-Foot Poles to Inspect Wind Turbine Blades1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10GE Hitachi to Turn World’s Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile into Electricity1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 11World’s Largest Engine Scores GE Aviation’s Largest Deal1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12GE Appliances Helps Unveil Fridge-Recycling Behemoth in Philly1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Mark I Containment Facts and The New York Times | GE Reports1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14How Loud is a Wind Turbine?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15How a 10-Minute Conversation with a Machine Saved $12M1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
nsebban · 2017-04-21
These two are in my bookmarks, and often have quite interesting reads.
http://www.gereports.com/
https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/blogger/ge
Any other interesting G-E sites I'm missing ?
shaunol · 2017-06-21
Original source is more informative and has a video http://www.gereports.com/ge-building-worlds-largest-additive-machine-3…
tonylemesmer · 2016-05-06
Its simply a turbine using CO2 instead of water as a medium to be used in existing facilities e.g. power stations.
Here is the original press release:
http://www.gereports.com/this-scientists-got-the-power-plant-in-his-ha…
IndianAstronaut · 2015-04-01
We don't need too much water to grow many crops.
http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japan…
"the farm can also cut its water usage to just 1 percent of the amount needed by outdoor fields."
Istof · 2014-07-16
Combine this technique with multiple layers like this: http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japan…
edit: fixed link....
dalke · 2012-04-02
The author of the linked-to essay is incorrect, which led to the mistitled HN title précis. The time.com author wrote "Unlike batteries, film, food and beverage, bulbs apparently don’t have a limited shelf life. Or if they do, it’s more than a century."
The GE description is at http://www.gereports.com/ge-opens-edison-era-time-capsule/ . It states "Among the items uncovered were five light bulbs. Three of them appeared to be in working condition."
Thus, bulbs do have a limited shelf life of under a century, and this HN title should be "a light bulb GE buried ...".
I now return you to your regularly scheduled pedantry.
ChuckMcM · 2015-10-06
They do abuse engines a lot for testing (http://www.gereports.com/post/101784637445/where-jet-engines-take-a-li… and the golf ball hail seems pretty challenging. I doubt an R/C drone is going to give the engine much trouble. Not that it couldn't damage the engine, just that it wouldn't take out the airplane.
Personally I think the drone discussion is more about the safety concerns they aren't talking about rather than what they do talk about. A lot of security scenarios are compromised if you can accurately deliver a small amount of payload from the air into an arbitrary space.
I think the FAA would do well to allow property owners, or their designated agents, a free hand to do what ever they want to drones over their property at altitudes below 400'. Whether it is shoot them out of the sky, or capture them with nets and resell them on the used drone market. Drone pilots would self limit their flying activities at that point I suspect.