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We’ve officially cruised out to our #OffshoreBlockParty — with five photographers— to get a closer look at Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm. 

The farm brings together five impressive GE Haliade wind turbines that are twice as high as the Statue of Liberty, holding a 400-ton power-generating nacelle in each of their towers. The blade tips tower 600 feet above the water, and GE’s innovative gearless permanent magnet generators can each produce 6 megawatts of power. That’s a combination that has the potential to transform the renewables business both in the U.S. and abroad. 

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What if light could measure athletic performance? GE Lighting answered that question by attaching biosensors to brilliant LEDs to measure the biometrics of Olympic athletes and hopefuls. The result was a beautiful visual of these Olympians writing their performances in the language of light.

As the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil come to a close next week, GE is proud to have been a global sponsor, helping power the sounds, images, and technology that bring the world’s largest and most-watched sporting event to life. 

While our GEnx engines normally power the Dreamliner, GE Aviation’s latest version, the GEnx-2B, is optimized for Boeing’s brand new 747-8 freighter. The plane carries a quartet of these GEnx engines which can generate 66,000 pounds of thrust, along with an aluminum and composite body which allows it to travel the length of two football fields in one second. It’s also 16 percent more fuel efficient and able to lift 24 more tons than its predecessor. Now that’s a seriously powerful machine. 

Last summer, Drone Week brought new perspectives on how our technology impacts the world. This year we’re taking it a step further with LIVE looks at the rarely-seen GE technology that’s powering Brazil, home of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 

While there’s still a lot of progress to be made, over the last six years, the Earth’s global renewable energy capacity has consistently grown by at least 8% each year. At the end of 2015, it amounted to 1,985 GW, thanks to the growing potential of Hydro, Wind, and Solar energy as upcoming mainstream alternatives. As a company invested in a more sustainable future, we’re proud of this progress. 

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This year, we celebrated Mother’s Day by sharing some incredible stories from women that have helped us build, cure, power, and move the world on the GE team. Join us by sharing your own story using #MothersOfInvention and celebrate all the amazing women in STEM.

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Taking steps towards a more sustainable future requires all of us to participate on a daily basis. Whether it involves saving water, biking instead of driving, or switching to LED bulbs for lighting, here are four easy ways you can make every day Earth day.

In 1941, while WWII raged on in Europe, a secret group of GE engineers were tasked with building the first American jet engine, bringing it to mass production, and helping the Allies win the war.

Joseph Sorota, 96, was still a student when he joined GE’s factory in Lynn, 10 miles north of Boston. Soon enough, he was thrust into the opaque world of the industrial war effort, becoming employee number 5 of an inner circle of engineers that knew about America’s efforts to help England. Because of their secrecy, they were known as ’The Hush-Hush Boys.’

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Tumblr. Here at GE, we're celebrating with our very own Shamrock Wind Turbine. Have a great, green, energy-filled holiday!

Happy Pi Day, everyone! 

This International Women’s Day, we commemorate the legacy of Nancy Reagan, whose death at 94 was announced this past Sunday. Reagan had an impact that lasted long beyond her — or her husband's — eight years in the White House.

As first lady, she supported numerous causes, serving as honorary chairwoman of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., the National Republican Women's Club and the National Child Watch Campaign, to name a few.

Before all that, she was also a regular feature on the nationally and critically acclaimed TV show, General Electric Theatre, hosted by her actor and soon-to-be-President husband Ronald Reagan.