GE's corporate news site covers its engineering work, including 3D printing, turbines, medical imaging, and indoor farming.
HN links it as the original source behind tech news stories, such as the CO2 turbine and Japanese indoor farm, and some find the reads interesting.
They do abuse engines a lot for testing (http://www.gereports.com/post/101784637445/where-jet-engines-take-a-licking-but-keep-on/) and the golf ball hail seems pretty challenging. I doubt an R/C drone is going to give the engine much trouble. Not that it couldn't damage the engine, just that it wouldn't take out the airplane.
Personally I think the drone discussion is more about the safety concerns they aren't talking about rather than what they do talk about. A lot of security scenarios are compromised if you can accurately deliver a small amount of payload from the air into an arbitrary space.
I think the FAA would do well to allow property owners, or their designated agents, a free hand to do what ever they want to drones over their property at altitudes below 400'. Whether it is shoot them out of the sky, or capture them with nets and resell them on the used drone market. Drone pilots would self limit their flying activities at that point I suspect.
The author of the linked-to essay is incorrect, which led to the mistitled HN title précis. The time.com author wrote "Unlike batteries, film, food and beverage, bulbs apparently don’t have a limited shelf life. Or if they do, it’s more than a century."
The GE description is at http://www.gereports.com/ge-opens-edison-era-time-capsule/ . It states "Among the items uncovered were five light bulbs. Three of them appeared to be in working condition."
Thus, bulbs do have a limited shelf life of under a century, and this HN title should be "a light bulb GE buried ...".
I now return you to your regularly scheduled pedantry.
We don't need too much water to grow many crops.
http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japanese-farmer-builds
"the farm can also cut its water usage to just 1 percent of the amount needed by outdoor fields."
Its simply a turbine using CO2 instead of water as a medium to be used in existing facilities e.g. power stations.
Here is the original press release:
http://www.gereports.com/this-scientists-got-the-power-plant-in-his-hands/
These two are in my bookmarks, and often have quite interesting reads.
http://www.gereports.com/
https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/blogger/ge
Any other interesting G-E sites I'm missing ?
Combine this technique with multiple layers like this: http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japanese-farmer-builds
edit: fixed link....