Mike Bowman: I am Mike Bowman.  I work here at the GE Global Research Lab and Energy Systems Laboratory.  This place is designed to take people’s ideas, to let them grow and then turn as a big thing.  So it’s your opportunity as to which really make, you really can find a better job.  The fact that I get paid for work in places like this is pretty awesome.  I would like to thank you for coming along with me today.  I am going to take you through my lab and show you a little bit.  I want to talk about energy specifically.  Energy-to-energy conversion fascinates me.  They have been part of my life ever since I have been a little kid going up to college.  The magnitude of the challenge, the opportunities out there, the variety of feed stocks, regulations, environmental impact, all those things make it a very challenging problem and to me that’s interesting, the things I like to work on.  So if we take coal for an example, coals are really just a big lump of carbon, it’s got some hydrogen in there, few other elements. It’s the workhorse of what you use today to make electricity, both in US and throughout the world.  So you can ask yourself if it’s out there and it is so popular, why do we care?  Well what our goal here is to try to make it more efficient and cleaner use to make the world a better place and that process we use is called the gasification.  Simply stated it’s trying to take this big lump of carbon and turn into a combustible gas that we can use to make power.  In reality, it’s a very complex system.  There is a lot of chemistry involved, heat transfer, thermodynamics and variety of things and that’s kind of what we do in lab like this today.  So we have got a variety of programs going on to look at how you preprocess the coal, dry it, move it around into a system.  We have reactors similar to this one, where we could bring in a variety of constituents of gas.  We can look at the chemistry through the process, look at how temperature impacts it, look at the exhaust that comes out and what that constitutes.  We can then look at cleaning up this exhaust or moving things like carbon dioxide and other elements that we don’t want to go into the atmosphere. The challenge with that then is, it’s called the synthesis gas and we need to convert that into power.  So we have a unique capability here where we can take researchers from around the world and put them together to make very complex piece of the hardware like this. This is a nozzle that would go into the combustion system and what it allows us to do is, bring that fuel, the syngas we just made into a system, mix it with air and fuel in appropriate method to make very clear energy, high energy stuff that go into the gas turbine and get some power of it.  The ability to take this from the clean sheet through a PC design looking at all the analytics that could involve the basic physics, the heat transfer, the thermodynamics into a piece of hardware into a large test cell facility we have our back and tested is hardware into a large test cell facility we have our back and tested is and performance of it, that we can take this work with our business and our Ecomagination Team and make products that actually go into the field.  And I got to tell you, the feeling that you get when you walk out and see something that you worked on, making power, making impact in all that’s huge, you can't get that in lot of places, in GE you can. So let me leave you at this, if you imagine at time when there is a process that takes a piece of coal like this into a process, generates electricity, fuels, clean water and a variety of other streams and puts on exhaust gas that’s as clean or cleaner than the air that we breathe, is an amazing thing.  It’s our job at GE Global Research to make that happen, imagine that.