November 14, 2023

Orsted Delayed In Taiwan, Bill Gates Backs AirLoom Energy, Drone Inspections with Spinning Turbines, World Wide Wind Counter-Rotating Turbine

41 minutes

Phil Totaro and Joel Saxum discuss the situation in Taiwan where Orsted has another ship delay that is pushing back the completion of the offshore project. In Norway, World Wide Wind received the green light to trial their small counter-rotating turbine off the coastline. Billionaire Bill Gates has backed a US-based startup that looks towards vertical blades on an oval track to generate low-cost electricity – Rosemary has doubts. Then the crew digs into the newly financed effort to photograph rotating blades using drones. Plus, Windy Hill Wind Farm in Australia is our wind farm of the week! It’s an action-packed episode!

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Allen Hall: Rosemary, I was watching X the other day and they had a little video from Canberra. I thought, Oh my gosh, I know someone from Canberra. And it was at the airport where a lady evidently missed her flight and decided that she was going to get out on the tarmac and then flag down the airplane on the tarmac.

So she was literally out on the tarmac. There's video of her trying to alert the pilot, like what the pilot is going to do. I don't know. But the question in the aerospace community and the airplane community is how did somebody get on the tarmac in Canberra? I assume there's a couple of gates or guards or something before he could hit the airplane.

and second of all, was that you?

Rosemary Barnes: It wasn't me. It's been a long time since I missed a flight. it has happened in my life, but not recently. And yeah, Canberra is not the largest airport, technically international. but in reality, it feels more like a rural airport, but there are locking doors between the, yeah, the departure lounge and the tarmac.

So a little bit surprised. I guess someone stuffed up and forgot to lock a door.

Allen Hall: I hope that's the case because the pilot was concerned about it. Yeah. She's lucky. She didn't get sucked into an engine. That could have happened. That could have really happened. It was very serious. yeah, hopefully everything goes better in Canberra.

And this weekend on the podcast, we have a lot of crazy, interesting news from all over the world. We're talking about new wind turbines off the coast of Norway. We're talking about new wind turbines in the United States of all things. plus Ørsted is in trouble again in Taiwan. This is a crazy week for wind energy, so stay tuned, there's a lot ahead.

If you have some free time in early February, you probably ought to go to Denmark and, go see the Leading Edge Erosion of Wind Turbine Blades conference that's going to be held outside of, or in, where DTU is. Because Joel and I are going to be there, of course, because where else would we be in February?

It's one of the colder places on the planet. But we are talking about leading edge erosion, and I know Rosemary is a big fan of leading edge erosion and, trying to squash it, in our times at LM. But there's a lot of people that's going to be at this conference that we know that have been on the podcast.

Morton Handberg from Wind Power Lab, Nicholas Gaudern from Power Curve's going to be there, Dainis Kruze from Aerones. Christian Bachman, DTU, so there's a number of really interesting talks that are happening and it's all, it's not like there's multiple rooms, there's one place where all the action is and you're just going to get, a fire hose of really useful information.

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By Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Joel Saxum & Phil Totaro

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