Archives with Category : Technology

16 May 2012 Posted by Carmen Georgeta Neagu

Accelerating Like an Airplane

It may sound strange, but in a way a gas turbine in a power station can really accelerate like an airplane engine, thanks to the “aeroderivative” gas turbine technology which results in an unmatched combination of speed, reliability and efficiency.  Being the result of imagination at work and based on a well-kown track record of life-changing innovations, the aeroderivative technology builds flexible and efficient natural-gas power plants, allowing them to quickly increase or decrease their electricity generation to compensate for variations in wind or solar power, making it easier to use intermittent sources of renewable energy. An aeroderivative gas turbine like the FlexAero LM6000 - assembled at the GE Energy plant in Veresegyház, Hungary - can generate enough electricity for a town with as many as 50,000 homes and it can get from cold iron to 50 megawatts in just 10 minutes.

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14 May 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Is Low Carbon a Blessing for CEE?

Guest post by Christian Egenhofer, Associate Senior Research Fellow and head of the Energy and Climate Program, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels

Poorer eastern EU member states are privileged when it comes to low-carbon transition but the window of opportunity is closing fast. While the transition to a low-carbon economy is all about technology, it is ultimately government policy that matters. Nowhere is this truer than in the poorer member states in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrary to what we think, Central and Eastern European EU member states are in a privileged position, but only if they seize their opportunities.

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3 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Button in Budapest

The countdown to the Grand Prix in Budapest on July 29 has begun, it’s only 87 days until the only Formula One race in CEE. This week thousands of spectators watched F1 racing cars performing on a special racing course right in the center of Budapest on Tuesday, May 1. You can read more details in this article.

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2 May 2012 Posted by Adriana Mirela Mircea

Greening Agriculture

“How can leading companies contribute to the conservation and protection of water in the agricultural sector within the Danube River Basin?” This was the main question at the Business Friends of the Danube - Agricultural Forum in Budapest recently. The Forum gathered stakeholders from 14 Danube countries such as experts, governments, large corporations and NGOs. The conference was organized by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), which is the efforts coordinator to protect water resources and improve water quality in the Danube region. The goal of the program was to foster dialogue and facilitate transfer of know-how between countries and companies, while increasing awareness about agricultural concerns and challenges.

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25 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Inventing the Future: George Emil Palade

Healthcare in the 21^st century is mostly like a second degree equation; a mix of technology and skills which are all adding up to a manual of the human body and ho wto treat it. Nowadays, we go down to the level of cells and their “life” in determining the nature of a disease or the health status of a patient. We all heard about ribosomes and learnt about their importance in the domain of modern molecular cell biology.  We thank much of that knowledge to the work of George Emil Palade (1912-2008) in the biology domain.

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23 April 2012 Posted by Ivan Hutter

Collaboration of Újpest Municipality and GE Brightens the Horizon and Lowers Cost

Five kindergartens and six other local institutions of Újpest, a district of Budapest, and designated schools and kindergartens of the towns of Nagykanizsa and Hajdúböszörmény can make substantial savings thanks to 1,300 pieces of energy efficient light sources that were donated by GE Lighting. The donation  was the result of an initiative of Zsolt Wintermantel, mayor of Újpest, who wanted leaders of the district to start cooperating more closely with local companies in order to speed up further development.

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19 April 2012 Posted by Spiewak Elzbieta

Passion about Innovation for Healthcare

Guest post by Pál Tegzes, Chairman of GE Healthcare Hungary Technical Council

What do 180 medical software developers, a scientist professor, a regional vice-president of a mobile communications company and a professional public speaker have in common? They all gathered recently in Budapest for GE Healthcare Hungary’s 4^th Annual Technology Symposium and told how passion and innovation were crucial components for their success.  Innovation in healthcare and mobile communications can be linked very well, for example in remote healthcare monitoring, centralized medical administration or digital analysis of diseases with the help of cloud computing.

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13 April 2012 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Regional Takeoff

Many Boeing airplanes have at least one component made in Romania. The first GE Aviation engine designed and produced outside the US comes from the Czech Republic. And the Boeing 787, the current celebrity among airplanes, is powered by a GEnx engine partly created in Poland. In addition, components for GE, CFMI, and Rolls Royce Engines are repaired in Hungary. The CEE region plays a key role in the global business success of GE Aviation.

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11 April 2012 Posted by Spiewak Elzbieta

A Recipe to Attract R&D

“We believe that by implementing our recommendations, Hungary’s expenditure on R&D can be doubled,” says Dr. Lajos Reich, head of the Innovation Working Group of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Hungary. On March 20, AmCham presented a position paper with recommendations how R&D and innovation, the pillars for national competitiveness, can be boosted.

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10 April 2012 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Remember and Prepare

GE Company Polska and the Warsaw Institute of Aviation offer a Scholarship Program to commemorate the victims of the Smolensk crash that happened two years ago.  The scholarship is financed from a special grant that GE Aviation and GE Energy funded after the tragedy to be used for a cause benefiting Polish citizens. The Warsaw Institute of Aviation matched that grant with additional funding, increasing the total amount.

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