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Business Wars Daily

G.E.’s Latest Project? 3D-Printed Wind Turbines.

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Tuesday, May 3, and we're looking at GE Renewable Energy vs. Modvion AB.

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Thank you. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday, May 3rd.

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Today, a story about wind, wood, and 3D printers.

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We caught wind of it a few weeks ago after GE renewable energy

1:14.2

announced that it was looking into a new way to manufacture the bases of wind turbines. A fun fact,

1:20.4

those stems that hold all those blades high in the air, they're really tall. Almost 300 feet.

1:26.9

We're talking about the height of the Statue of Liberty here.

1:30.3

And building those towers can be challenging.

1:33.5

Right now, drivers transport prefabricated steel pieces to the turbine building site,

1:38.7

but they're limited in certain ways, according to GE's announcement.

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For one, the pieces that make up a turbine tower

1:45.2

can't be more than 14 feet in diameter, any larger and they wouldn't fit on the roads. So if towers

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