GE Vernova Offshore Plans, Australia’s Approval Struggles, Sensing360 Gearbox Monitoring, NextEra’s Green Fertilizer Venture

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

This week we cover GE Vernova's offshore wind backlog and plans for growth, the challenges Australia faces in streamlining wind farm approvals, a new fiber optic sensing technology for monitoring gearboxes from Sensing360, and NextEra's plans to build a renewable hydrogen-based fertilizer plant in North Dakota. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Rosemary, have you been to Dubai? And all your world travels. Rosemary Barnes: I stop off there every time that I go to Europe or half the time I go to Europe. Allen Hall: You're an adventure seeker, right? You're one of those ride the skateboard, be on the bike, go down the mountain, surfboard kind of people? Have you seen this new jet suit racing league that they've developed in Dubai? I don't know if you saw this on Instagram but they've got those, these jet packs. You see where you put one on each hand and there's one on your back? And, but they make it and fly around like Iron Man does, but they've created a racing league with this thing and it was just fascinating to watch. I thought, oh, Rosemary would be interested in that. She wouldn't be afraid of that at all. But Joel, I didn't realize there's, those things are 1500 horsepower. So I did a quick look on the Corvette website today to see what the latest Corvette engine is. Joel Saxum: 670. Allen Hall: Is it 670? It's a roughly 500. Joel Saxum: The 670 is the LT5. Come on, I got this. 670 horse, 495 foot pounds of torque. Allen Hall: So you essentially have three Corvette engines attached to your body. And that is propelling you. Ah, now we're talking. So if you watch the race, you got to watch this race because it is really interesting because everybody's really good. It's tentative, and they had two participants collide and not fall out of the sky, surprisingly. And one of the participants lost direction a little bit, and they do it over water. So when you if you're going to fall out of the sky, you're not going to get hurt. So this one racer fell into the water, and I thought, oh, there you go. It's like the perfect Rosemary sport, right? It's speed, it's danger, it's above water. It's got all the elements. This is insane. Rosemary Barnes: You're missing one element. My, my sports are all human powered and it's not. Joel Saxum: Zero fossil fuels in Rosemary sports. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I am. I am waiting for the day. I actually, I'm going to be going to Switzerland soon for a ski trip. And I usually I like to do that people powered as well. Like I hike up the hill and and ski down in the back country and cross country ski. That's my favorite things. But I would love to go heli skiing just for the, amount of extra terrain that you can cover in a day. And I did look and see, is there an electric helicopter that you can do heli skiing with in Switzerland yet? And the closest that there is a helicopter that's 50% SAF, so 50 percent sustainable aviation fuel, and then the other 50 percent they offset. But there aren't really any offsets around today that truly do. Eliminate the point of your the damage of your emissions. So I won't do it on this trip. I don't think also probably it sounds pretty expensive, but I am desperately waiting for the day when I can do electric heli skiing. Philip Totaro: Rosemary and I are going to get into electric scooter racing then, because you can recharge your electric scooter from renewable s...