EP64 – Rosemary Barnes, Wind Turbine Blade Engineer & YouTube Educator

Rosemary Barnes from Pardalote Consulting and the popular YouTube Channel, Engineering with Rosie, joined us to share her take on wind energy. Ms. Barnes has a Ph.D in composite materials and structural design, and has worked for LM Wind Power, where she oversaw blade heating systems, among other projects. In this episode, she shared her insights on how wind turbine blade design has evolved, what the future of wind power might look like, vertical vs horizontal wind turbines, and how we can make more efficient energy transitions. Follow up with Rosie on Linkedin, visit Pardalote, her consulting firm, and be sure to subscribe to her YouTube channel. 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: EP64 - Rosemary Barnes of Pardalote Consulting talks Wind Turbine Blade Design & Sharing Her Knowledge on YouTube Dan Blewett 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Allen Hall 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. Dan Blewett 0:39I'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. Dan Blewett 0:58All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 64. And we have a great guest today, Rosemary Barnes is joining us on the show. She is a consultant with Pardalote. And she also runs the YouTube channel Engineering with Rosie where she educates the public on all sorts of topics in wind, wind energy, on wind turbine design, on blade aerodynamics, lots of really interesting stuff, tons of new videos on green hydrogen. So we wanted to have Rosie on the show to share her expertise. And let me run down a little bit of her background. So she has her PhD in structural design and composite materials from the University of New South Wales Canberra campus in Australia. She was worked for lm wind power as a engineer,