During my January trip to the UAE for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week*, a few other bloggers and I got to walk through GE’s fresh and clean** (just-opened) ecomagination Center. Located in Masdar City, this is GE’s only ecomagination center to date, despite the program being massively well funded and hugely successful.
During our stroll, we learned a bit about smart grid awesomeness, tremendously energy-efficient lighting, GE’s brilliant wind turbines, super energy-efficient jet engines, the “Industrial Internet,” and plenty more. Here are three videos from my stroll through the ecomagination Center:
Industrial Internet + GE Jet Engines
Smart Grid
Due to the echo, this one’s a bit hard to hear. It actually wasn’t much better in person.
GE Brilliant Wind Turbine Benefits
Same echo problem with this one:
Never miss a cleantech beat by subscribing to our main cleantech newsletter. Subscribe to our solar newsletter if you only care about the sun or our wind energy newsletter if you’re an air-loving android.
*My trip to Abu Dhabi for the second annual Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week was covered my Masdar. That said, I was not required to write about or film anything and I’ve only covered stories that I found especially interesting.
**If that line made you think of one of Outkast’s best songs, take a music break.
I don't like paywalls. You don't like paywalls. Who likes paywalls? Here at CleanTechnica, we implemented a limited paywall for a while, but it always felt wrong — and it was always tough to decide what we should put behind there. In theory, your most exclusive and best content goes behind a paywall. But then fewer people read it! We just don't like paywalls, and so we've decided to ditch ours. Unfortunately, the media business is still a tough, cut-throat business with tiny margins. It's a never-ending Olympic challenge to stay above water or even perhaps — gasp — grow. So ...
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!
Have a tip for CleanTechnica, want to advertise, or want to suggest a guest for our CleanTech Talk podcast? Contact us here.
