Chinese Cable-Cutting Patent, Blades in Coal Mines, LNG Ruling

This week we discuss Wyoming's plan to bury blades in sealed coal mines, a Chinese patent that seems linked to subsea attacks, and a ruling that threw out the possibility of train-transported liquified natural gas in the US. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com 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: Wyoming gets creative with turbine blade recycling while concerns mount over submarine cable security in European waters. Plus, a federal ruling on LNG transport poses new challenges for East Coast energy plants. This is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by BuildTurbines. com. Learn, train, and be a part of the clean energy revolution. Visit BuildTurbines. com today. Now, here's your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: This is your last chance, everybody, if you're planning on attending Wind Energy O&M Australia, which will be February 11th and 12th in Melbourne. You better get your tickets and do it fast, because you need to go to WindAustralia. com. Now, Phil, you want to give us an update of who all is going to be at that conference? Phil Totaro: We have currently more than 100 attendees representing more than 50 different companies, and we've got more than 40 speakers, um, who are, or panelists who are going to be talking about a diverse array of topics, including, uh, things like lightning, Uh, damage and detection and prevention, uh, damage prevention, um, uh, insurance, uh, implications of, uh, operations maintenance in Australia, um, uh, leading edge erosion. Remote inspection technologies, uh, condition monitoring systems, uh, as well as some advice and, and some interesting dialogue that's kind of emerging around, um, the operators and how do you really, uh, get a grip on your O& M budget and in particular, how do you handle the fact that you've got, uh, uh, Windturbine OEM that you may have signed a long term agreement with that may or may not be living up to their obligations.