Michel Goulet of Petzl, US Spends $B on Carbon Capture

Is anything more important than safety? We hope the answer is as obvious as the question is rhetorical. This week's guest, Michele Goulet of Petzl, offers insight into fall protection, access and rescue equipment, and tips for managing in emergency situations, plus how to evaluate helmet features to best protect yourself and your workers. Also in this episode, Joel Saxum (of Wind Power LAB) joins Allen and Rosemary to discuss carbon capture. What are the best locations for those projects? How big a role will it play in the future? When will the technology catch up with the problem? Visit Petzl here - https://www.petzl.com/US/en 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!  Michel Goulet: [00:00:00] So Petzel is really in the, uh, in the business of providing fall protection, access equipment and rescue equipment, uh, for, for many industries, including, uh, the wind energy, uh, sector. Welcome  Allen Hall: to the uptime wind energy podcast. I am your co-host Allen hall and here from Canada. The queen of COVID Dr. Rosemary Barnes. Welcome Rosemary. Thanks. And  Rosemary Barnes: yeah. Thanks you think right. It's not my favorite introduction, but accurate on this particular  Allen Hall: day. we're always truthful on this show. Very truthful and from the largest wind energy state in America, Texas Joel Saxum of Wind Power LAB. Welcome [00:01:00] Joel.  Joel Saxum: Thank you, sir. That's true.  Allen Hall: We have a very busy, busy week. Uh, we're all still recovering from ACP, San Antonio. Uh there was an outbreak of COVID evidently and everybody's still recovering, but, but we're back and better than ever. So let's get, uh, Rosemary's thoughts on this carbon removal technology that the us government is throwing three and a half billion dollars at, and then we have a guest interview. We haven't had those in a. So we're gonna have Michel Goulet from Petzl, one of Rosemary's favorite helmet makers. And Michel's gonna talk about all the different safety, uh,