The GE Brief: June 13, 2022
?Software from GE Digital is helping airlines navigate the course for “the perfect flight,” an effort aiming to help them operate at their peak efficiency and reduce their carbon emissions at the same time. The industry contributes about?2.1% of all CO2?emissions?tied to human activity, and many airlines are seeking to reach their “net zero” emissions goals by 2050. Using fuel smartly and being able to measure the savings is an important part of that journey. If “you fly two planes to Atlanta three times a day, data can tell you that one has a very different CO2?profile,” says Andrew Coleman, who runs GE Digital’s aviation software business. “Maybe you carried too much fuel and all that extra weight made your fuel consumption and emissions go up. It can be a million things, and we can help you find out what it is.” GE Reports has the full story?here. Don’t miss the video below.
Florida’s?ambitious plans?to fully transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050 make abundant sense for the Sunshine State. But it will take some time to build up the state’s renewable infrastructure. This is where always-available energy sources that produce relatively low carbon emissions, like natural gas, can help, and GE’s newest gas-burning turbine, the 7HA.03, might just be the perfect machine for the job. The turbine — among the largest, most efficient machines engineered for grids like those in the U.S. operating at 60-hertz frequency — can generate the approximate electricity to power more than 250,000 homes and got its commercial debut this week. Florida Power and Light (FPL),?the state’s largest utility, began operating two of the turbines at its Dania Beach Clean Energy Center in Fort Lauderdale. Find out more?here.
?After the original Hollywood blockbuster about Navy fighter pilots conquered the box office in 1986, the movie received four Academy Award nominations. All but one hailed the film’s auditory experience, with sound engineering punching up the movie’s most memorable scenes. So how do you begin to top that when your mission is to help create sound for the movie’s sequel? That work fell to Skywalker Sound, a team of audio wizards who specialize in sound design, mixing and audio post-production. They got their sound material at GE Aviation, a top global builder of jet engines for fighter and passenger jets. GE Reports has you covered?here.
Employees of GE Digital Aviation explain how software is helping airlines burn less fuel and become more sustainable today.
1.?3D-printed?body parts.
2.?Printing objects?with sound.?
3.?Rehabilitating ailing organs?before transplant.
4.?Next-gen imaging with?terahertz waves.
5.?Data speeds?100,000 times faster?than your Wi-Fi.
?—?Quote Of The Day?—
?“For the first time, I was able to self-service as a pilot to look at some of the most interesting metrics to me, rather than having to go to an analyst and ask, ‘Can I have this information, please?’ I was just overwhelmed by this; I was like a kid in a candy shop.”
—?David Summergreene,?captain at Qantas Airlines