EP34 – Long Duration Energy Storage, East Coast States Form Wind Energy Partnership, Winglets & More

In this episode we chat about long duration energy storage - what does the future hold for these types of batteries and power delivery systems? A small floating wind turbine capsized after being hit by a big wave - is this a setback for floating wind? Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina have banded together on wind power - what does this mean for the east coast? We also talk more about winglets and blade design, spurred by a great user question. 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 show? Email us!  TRANSCRIPT EP34 - Long Duration Energy Storage, East Coast States Form Wind Energy Partnership, Winglets & More Welcome back I'm Allen hall I'm Dan Blewett and this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running alright welcome back this is the uptime wind energy podcast episode 34 and on today's show got a lot of news to cover and a couple cool engineering things to talk about so number one we're going to chat about Maryland Virginia and North Carolina banding together to help further along offshore wind projects in the future we'll also talk about a recent wind turbine of a floating a small version capsized uh by a pretty big wave so obviously some big engineering implement uh implications there uh we'll also chat a little bit about a wind power uh cargo ship concept that's pretty interesting just here on the topic of you know renewables in general and then our engineering segment we'll talk about uh wind turbine oems pushing services remote uh different offerings that they've got going on just to try to boost revenue some long-term energy storage solutions in theory and lastly we had a great listener question about winglets and wing design and so we're going to chat through a bunch of the aerodynamics of that. So Allen first thing on the on the docket here maryland virginia and north carolina want to basically make their supply chain easier in the future and sort of band together to get offshore wind projects up and running and uh so what are your thoughts on this little alliance well dan i think that makes sense that we some of the states are trying to connect up and utilize resources a lot of times in the united states it's sort of 50 separate countries and it's not supposed to be set up that way but it is it is and some of the uh interstate commerce can get a little funky i mean particularly when you're dealing with offshore projects that will immediately involve the federal government so if you're smart you want to bring in a consortium of states that all have the same approach so you can plead your case to congress so i think it makes sense to do it i wonder if they're going to be developing uh some industry closer to the shoreline they're very similar to what new jersey's talking about because the opportunity to up and down the coastline on the northeast coastline to put big wind turbines out to sea is really good i think that the winds are as we've all been to the beach there there's decent winds out that way so there's a lot of power production could be had it could...