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08.24.10

GE Teams with Major Utilities, Builders and Communities to Increase American Home Efficiency by 70%, Save Homeowners $100s/yr. on Energy Bills

$5 million project with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to employ a mix of energy efficiency and clean power measures to reduce energy usage for new and existing homes

08.12.10

GE Awarded $6.3 Million DARPA Grant to Develop New Bio-inspired Sensors

Replicating nanostructures from the wings of Morpho butterflies, GE’s sensors would enable highly selective, near-instantaneous detection of chemical threats

GE’s sensing platform could create other industrial and healthcare applications, including emissions monitoring at power plants, water purification and food safety testing and breath analysis for disease detection

07.21.10

GE LAUNCHES STUDY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS OF EARLY STAGE COLON CANCER

GE applying its revolutionary cancer mapping technology to identify early stage patients at higher risk for re-occurrence   New molecular insights from GE’s mapping technology could promote better treatment selections for patients

 

07.15.10

White OLED Outlook Brightens with Efficiency Breakthrough

56 lumens-per-watt efficiency achievement proves that flexible, white OLED lighting devices can be made at low cost using “solution-coatable” materials

06.30.10

GE Using Nanotechnology to Green the Alberta Oil Sands

New CO2 capture technology under development could reduce CO2 emissions from the production of synthetic crude oil from the Oil Sands by up to 25%

06.09.10

GE Awarded $4 Million Grant from the National Institutes of Health to Develop Fluorescent Nerve Imaging Agent and Surgical System

New technology could help avoid nerve damage and reduce complications from surgeries, including prostate and facial surgery

05.14.10

GE MARKS 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LASER WITH LAUNCH OF NEW “LASER DIODE-LOGUES” BLOG FEATURE ON EDISON’S DESK

GE scientists to blog about past, present and future laser technologies from GE and others in the field.

New feature pays tribute to one of GE’s greatest inventions in laser technology, the semiconductor (diode) laser.

 

04.26.10

GE, Nissan to Drive Smart Charging for Electric Vehicles

— Companies to look at integration of EVs into everyday living —

04.21.10

GE to Study Impact of High Solar Energy Penetration on the Grid

GE teams up with Arizona Public Service, providing equipment, expertise for Smart Grid PV project

04.13.10

GE, U.S. Army Join Forces to Assist Returning Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan

GE scientists conducting a research study at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia to assess soldiers diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Project to use GE Home Health technologies to help identify symptoms, improve understanding and medical treatments

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