general electric
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Toshiba to Split Into Three Companies After Years of Scandal
Electronics giant Toshiba will split into three different companies after years of scandals, according to a press release from the Japanese company on Friday. The move comes after activist shareholders lobbied for the change following several idiotic moves, including a plan to falsify financial documents which saw the company pay out a record fine in…
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Floating Wind Turbines Are Having a Moment
Everything’s coming up floating wind turbines. On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced plans to open up the waters off California to wind energy, signalling that the new technology is going to emerge.
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GE Aviation Workers Demand That Inactive Plants Begin Manufacturing Respirators
Today, aviation factory workers for General Electric staged two protests in Massachusetts, demanding that the company reconfigure its aircraft manufacturing facilities in order to make ventilators. Last week, General Electric Aviation announced that it would be laying off a large contingent of its workforce, while officials and medical workers have been calling on the federal…
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Look At The Monster Magnet Made For America’s First Offshore Wind Farm
Now this is a gadget. Just look at the six-megawatt direct-drive generator, equipped with a huge permanent magnet rotor: it was designed by General Electric’s engineers and it is one of the largest of its kind that ever built.