The latest Uptime Wind Energy podcast investigates ingenious systems tracking bird behavior near turbines. Hosts Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and blade expert Rosemary Barnes examine radars revolutionizing avian activity alerts. From Robin Radar's monitoring, new technologies enable prudent wind farm planning around flocks. But can colorful deterrents like green towers really redirect birds? The team weighs wavering research on visual repellents. They also confront repairs rattling turbine reliability - dissecting blade imperfections from microscopic defects to major retrofits. With quality controls failing, can wind power keep soaring? Discover uplifting solutions to bird puzzles and blade bottlenecks only on Uptime - the #1 podcast helping wind work.

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Uptime 186

Allen Hall: Has everybody seen A Christmas Story? Rosemary, I know you don't have snow, but have you seen A Christmas Story movie? 

Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I, I was subjected to a whole, a whole lot of American Christmas traditions, but that one didn't come up.

Phil Totaro: I've never seen it.

Allen Hall: So in a very Christmas Story fashion, I received this sort of box at the house, and it said Fragile on it.

And then I thought, well, it must be a major award. And then I, I do open it up and sure enough, right over there. Rosemary, can you 

Rosemary Barnes: tell what that is? Did you get a, what? Doesn't that mean that you have 100, 000 subscribers? We have 

Allen Hall: over 200, 000 subscribers to our YouTube channel. 

Rosemary Barnes: Going crazy. Nice. That's so cool.

Well, it's not really 

Allen Hall: congratulations. It's, it's one of those things like, what am I going to do with this thing? Now that I have it, I'm not sure what to do with it. So I stuck it here behind me figuring like, well, that's exactly what you do. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's basically a lawn ornament. That's essentially what it is.

Joel Saxum: I think the next time you go to Texas, you should get a belt buckle made. 

Allen Hall: See, that would be cool. I'm with Joel on that one. So the next NASCAR race I go to, I got to have a YouTube buckle, but thanks to everybody on YouTube has subscribed to our channel because we're, we're getting really close to a quarter million subscribers on that channel.

And we really appreciate everybody paying attention to us and, and on the audio platform, Spotify and Apple podcasts, we have seen a market, a number of people. listening to the podcast. So we really appreciate it and keep on listening and send us notes. And we really appreciate when our listeners send us notes and tell us things that they'd like to hear on the program, that's what's 

Rosemary Barnes: wonderful.

Allen Hall: Well, we know there's an issue with TPI blades and with wrinkles in particular, because TPI has announced that and they're, they're making some changes to the quality system and bringing people in, uh, to get back on track, but it also looks like they have a number of existing winter and blades that have.

Wrinkle issues at a minimum. So if you're paying attention out there in the LinkedIn world, you see some of these repairs going on and Rosemary, I've watched, I don't know, 8, 10 videos over the last couple of weeks of. Repairs that are happening to TPI blades down in Mexico. And those repairs appear to be very close to the root of the,