20 – Does the NRG Bat Deterrent Work? A Great Lakes Wind Farm Gets a Boost, and Are Aesthetics Holding Back Off-Shore Wind in the US?

We discussed whether the NRG bat deterrent system works for wind turbines - will it really keep bats safe? Also in this episode: GE news, whether new legislation will help bring a wind farm to reality in the Great Lakes, and whether or not aesthetics play a role in off-shore wind farm approval and acceptance by the public. Learn more about Weather Guard Lightning Tech’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast? Email us!  Full Transcript EP20 - Does the NRG Bat Deterrant System Work? GE News, a Great Lakes Wind Farm Gets a Boost, and Are Aesthetics Holding Back Off-Shore Wind in the US? Today we've got a bunch of great topics. So first we're gonna talk about. This isn't current news, it's old news, but a little bit news to us and worth mentioning, which is a blade flew off, off of a windmill, a narrowly missing some homes, uh, back in the end of 2019. So we're gonna talk about kind of the implications about in general, what happens when things go wrong with, uh, with wind turbines? Uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about GE. And their different businesses and what their outlook looks like for the future. And a little bit about offshore wind and people's conceptions about it because we know that some opposition, especially here in the U S is about the aesthetics and peoples. Beautiful view out into the, uh, the blue ocean. And then our second segment, we're gonna talk a little bit about the NRG bat deterrent system. Uh, it's berberine recently installed on a few wind farms and obviously in the effort to be a little more environmental friendly, environmentally friendly. And keep these little animals safe that eat all of our mosquitoes for us. And then lastly, we'll chat a little bit about European, renewables and standardization for systems on wind turbines. So Allen, the big two. Oh. Show 20. Allen Hall: Yeah, show 20. And we've got a blade flying off, down in New Jersey. How about that? Yeah, that's an interesting news story. I hadn't seen that news story when it came out, but I don't know why it showed up in the newsfeed again recently, but the videos pretty amazing. Dan: Did you see how far that blade went? Yeah. Terrifying. No. I mean, those things have so much power that, I mean, you see these things in the distance that, you know, the big ones and they look like they're going kind of slow, but the tip speeds are, you know, 180 miles per hour or whatever. So this one was not a massive one. This was on a, on a metal kilowatt. Yeah, but still, I mean, Allen Hall: it's in a neighborhood or two, I think as well. It just depends on what you think of it as a neighborhood, but that's a neighborhood now. There's a lot of homes around there. So when that blade came off, it they're very lucky. I didn't hit a car or a house or a person. So they're just fortunate.