Ørsted and New Jersey settle their dispute over cancelled offshore wind farms, Belgium objects to a French offshore wind farm near Dunkirk, Vestas merges its technology and manufacturing divisions, a new blade root bushing repair method is patented by We4Ce, and details on NextEra's Hubbard Wind Project in Texas.

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Allen Hall: Over in the UK, and this is the only place where I think this would Obviously occur for multiple reasons. Adam Spencer, a serial thief from Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, was recently caught and sentenced after a string of burglaries and shoplifting incidents. Most notable theft, 17 tubes of Pringles potato chips, all stolen in one go.

When arrested by police, Spencer reportedly quipped, Once you pop, you can't stop. A reference to Pringle's famous advertising slogan. But Prince's crime spree went beyond just chips. He broke into the same Iceland shop twice in one morning, stealing meat and then returning a couple hours later to steal over 300 pounds worth of additional stock.

Okay this is gonna become the Pringle's defense. It has to be, right? Once you pop, you can't stop. I like it. Rosemary are we would call them potato chips in the United States, but they're called other things in other places. Are they popular in Australia?

Rosemary Barnes: No, they're they're chips in Australia.

They're crisps in the UK.

Joel Saxum: Are they popular and or would you be willing to steal 17 tubes of them?

Rosemary Barnes: I certainly wouldn't. Wouldn't steal them. It's hard to imagine how you could sneak out 17 tubes of Pringles in one go. So that's, obviously I guess they, they didn't because they were caught, but yeah, no, I think, I don't know with chips, I I don't like them particularly, but if they're there, I'll eat them and then regret it.

So I would not. I would not keep 17 tubes in my house because there's, it's hard to, It's hard to eat healthy foods while you've got Pringles available. Even if I don't like them. I don't, yeah, I guess ones you probably can't stop.

Allen Hall: A Belgian minister has joined several coastal municipalities in filing an objection against a large wind farm off the coast of Dunkirk, France. And if you remember Dunkirk, France is the place where the British removed all their coal. Troops at the beginning of world war two very famous place The plans would build 46 wind turbines barely 10 kilometers from the coast which Belgian authorities say would cause visual nuisance impact shipping routes and harm protected seabirds Belgium has been opposing this Project since 2016 has proposed an alternate location further out to sea if necessary Belgium is prepared to go to the European court to safeguard the rights of coastal residents and other stakeholders Okay, guys, so when you decide to build an offshore wind farm along your border You have to anticipate if the country or the other side is going to have some concerns about it, right?

Particularly in Dunkirk France, which is a very next to Belgium, which is quite beautiful You it's just like the coastline of New Jersey that and Virginia and everywhere else in the United States where the sight lines can't be interrupted. Six, 10 kilometers, which is six miles, right? Six miles isn't that far offshore.

Joel Saxum: How do they navigate this? I'd be the like to be the first one to say that if we're gonna take a uptime podcast field tri...