EP50 – 3D Printed Wind Turbine Bases: Are They The Future? with COBOD Founder Henrik Lund-Nielsen

Henrik Lund-Nielsen, founder and General Manager of COBOD International joined us to talk about their company's 3D printing construction technology, and specifically how it might be used in the future to help wind turbines grow taller. GE is in partnership with COBOD, developing the project knowledge to print their own concrete wind turbine bases that can help extend their on-shore turbines. Watch the YouTube version of this podcast here. COBOD has partnered with Peri, a company specializing in construction and formwork, and LafargeHolcim, a leader in cement and materials, helping it rapidly improving its technology and print bigger structures, faster. In this talk we discuss the implications of 3D printed concrete in on-shore applications, off-shore applications, how it can help worker conditions, reduce tariffs and import barriers, as well as get younger generations of construction workers interested in the field. Check out COBOD's YouTube channel for more videos on their 3D printing. 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. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP50 - 3D Printed Wind Turbine Bases: Are They The Future? with COBOD Founder Henrik Lund-Nielsen Dan Blewett: This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at weather guard, we make wind turbine lightning protection easy. If you're a wind farm operator, stop settling for damaged turbine blades and constant downtime. Get your uptime back with our StrikeTape lightning protection system. Learn more in today's show notes or visit weatherguardwind.com/strike tape. 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. welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your cohost, Dan Blewett on today's show. We have a great guest. Henrik Lund-Nielsen is here. He is the founder and general manager of COBOD International. So let's first talk about, uh, the company a little bit. So COBOD is a really interesting, uh, it's a, it's a disruptive 3d construction printing company. So they're creating the technology, the 3d printers themselves to do concrete, 3d printing, which is currently being used for, uh, interest in the general construction sector, building, uh, houses. They built a two story apartment building. Um, so they're capable of building all sorts of structures. There also, this is one of the big things we'll talk about today, uh, in the wind industry building a wind turbine basis so they can build a wider base, uh, onsite that is going to allow wind turbines to get sig...