This is our 200th episode of Uptime! We kick off with a discussion about the similarities and differences between the blade issues at Siemens Gamesa and Boeing's recent door issue. Is engineering for aerospace and wind energy held to different standards? In both issues, who's at fault? Then a review of GE Vernova's Q4 2023 results--what does this mean for the company's future?

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Allen Hall: Phil has a confession to make, and I know we talked about this previously, but we didn't let out in the street because I thought it was too early to shock the world with this, but Phil, would you like to describe who your neighbor was when you were growing up in the Hard Streets of buffalo.

Philip Totaro: I was neighbors with musical performer Rick James. And I say neighbors loosely because I lived in a suburb of Buffalo, New York called East Aurora, where, we had 10 acres and he had an adjacent, I don't know, 10 or 12 acres. But he had a house up there, and, back in the eighties, that's where he hung out, and, I don't know, had parties, or whatever he did.

Joel Saxum: Did Rick James stuff?

Allen Hall: Rosemary, you know who Rick James is, right?

Rosemary Barnes: I had to look it up, because I was initially thinking the guy that sang Never Gonna Give You Up, which would be yeah, cool, cool enough.

Philip Totaro: That's Rick Astley, not Rick James.

Rosemary Barnes: Rick James is super freak, which is Yeah, nah, that's a good song.

That that's cool.

Allen Hall: No, Rick Astley was just a totally different neighbor than Rick James would be. But Rick James had some pretty wild parties.

Philip Totaro: You know what? He had wild parties when he was in LA or New York. I don't know if he came back to Buffalo to dry out, maybe that's what it was.

Rosemary Barnes: I think I'd rather go to a Rick James than a Rick Astley party based on the kind of music that might be played. Even though Never Gonna Give You Up is a excellent song.

Allen Hall: Super Freak's a very popular song, even today. That guy is super talented. Come on, let's admit it, he's a super talented guy.

Joel Saxum: The experience could be akin to the Technotrain.

Allen Hall: Rosemary doesn't seem to remember that either, even though she's, and she swears she was never on it, but man, I don't know.

Rosemary Barnes: The Technotrain. I don't remember going on it.

Allen Hall: Yeah, Rosemary, this is our 200th episode.

Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, how exciting. Did you think that when you started it?

Allen Hall: No, I thought you told me we would never get to 200.

Rosemary Barnes: I'd never say something like that, but no, you started it before. I came on board after you and Dan had been going for a while. I don't know, maybe you were up to episode, I don't know, somewhere in the tens, less than a hundred.

Allen Hall: Less than a hundred. Yeah. I think you were in the fifties or sixties somewhere. Yeah, you've been along for the long ride.

Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I went back and watched some of those early ones. It was heavily lightning focused and very much a means to get your super knowledge on the industry out there and now it's grown much more into, covering the topics of the day and yeah, the team's grown four of us here most weeks now that's, yeah, it's been really exciting to be part of this whirlwind journey.