And home-equity loans...
Posted on 05/27/2007 5:29:34 PM PDT by P-40
GE Introduces Hybrid Locomotive Prototype to PublicKinetic energy - any body remember what kinetic energy is?
This is a kinetic energy recovery locomotive.
They recover kinetic (motion) energy and convert it back into potential (chemical in this case) energy.
I believe several other roads operated similar systems on mountainous sections. The Pennsylvania was the most heavily electrified railroad in the US, but most of its territory was too flat to benefit much from this method of energy recovery.
About the only two things GE actually makes anymore is locomotives and bad network TV.
You beat me to it. This is done in Europe all the time.
And home-equity loans...
I beg your pardon; GE is big in electric power generation, transmission and switching:
http://www.gepower.com/home/index.htm
And just to paint the complete picture:
In terms of market capitalization, G.E. is the world’s second largest company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric
More:
Today
GE is an enormous multinational conglomerate headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Its New York headquarters are based in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Rockefeller Center, known as the GE Building for the prominent GE logo on the roof. Through its RCA subsidiary it has been associated with the Center since its construction in the 1930s.
The company describes itself as composed of a number of primary business units or “businesses.” Each “business” is itself a vast enterprise, many of which would, even as a standalone company, rank in the Fortune 500. The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. General Electric’s tax return is the largest return filed in the United States, approximately 24,000 pages when printed out. Electronically, the files were 237 megabytes.[3]
In 2005 GE launched its “Ecomagination” initiative in an attempt to position itself as a “green” company. GE is currently one of the biggest players in the wind power industry, and it is also developing new environment-friendly products such as hybrid locomotives and photovoltaic cells. The company has even set goals for its subsidiaries to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.[4] Soon, GE will be selling technologies to companies that are struggling to adapt to stricter environmental regulations.
On May 21, 2007, General Electric announced it will sell its GE Plastics division to petrochemicals manufacturer Saudi Basic Industries Corp. for net proceeds of about $9 billion.
Giant 300-degree-C battery porn bump!
They do make one ehll of a locomotive. Mostly just kidding, I have millions of dollars in their PLC's and they piss me off every day.
Maybe its the environment the PLC’s are used in (corrosive or vibration, HV transients) - or is it personnel and a training issue?
Seriously, I’ve ben looking at contact sprays, like described here:
http://www.listserve.com/archives/collins/2003-11/msg00118.html
Battelle found that half of the products being sold to the DOD to prevent
corrosion in electrical connectors actually accelerated corrosion in some
tests all of which (except one) were qualified under the Navy’s
specification MIL-C-81309. Battelle contacted all the companies that claimed
their products were corrosion inhibitors but caused corrosion, and none of
them had done any testing to substantiate their outrageous claims. However,
Battelle identified MIL-L-87177A Grade B (invented by the Bell Labs for
their own use) as an excellent corrosion inhibitor for connectors that
lasted for a full two years.
Google search:
MIL-L-87177A Grade B
Really?
Airplane engines, MRIs and medical equipment such as medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, power generation such as turbine control systems, oil and gas systems, utility systems, commercial financing, real estate financing, and a whole lot more.
They make pretty good jet engines.
There were some early trolley systems that did the same. Talk about being ahead of their time!
Any idea about how many locomotives get built, bought or sold in a year? I had no idea the market was lucrative.
There are only two players in the domestic market - GE and GM.
KE =1/2mv2 Kinetic energy equals one half of the mass times the velocity squared.
They make a lot of gas turbine engines.
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