John Reinker is General Electric Global Research's hydrogen energy advanced technology leader. He leads GE's hydrogen production, storage/delivery, end-use, and other advanced energy technologies including CO2 technologies and Gen IV nuclear programs. In addition, he is the GE sponsor for the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University.
Prior to his current assignment, John spent 20 years in GE Energy including general management positions in Gas Turbine, Energy Services, and Steam Turbine-Generator Technologies. He held many power generation design-engineering positions and was the steam turbine product line leader within the Power Plants business.
John Reinker received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Innovation today to get a product out so expensive, a new aircraft engine or new power plants, you know billion dollars is it takes just to build that, so you go to GE board and say, Concord have put a billion dollars down and we are going to make money on it. So in order to do that you have to do ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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