EP65 – Turbine Blades into Concrete? DARC Bat Protection for Towers Plus 1000ft Offshore Turbine?

GE Announces a partnership with LafargeHolcim to recycle old wind turbine blades into concrete - will it work? Plus, the DARC system vows to protect bats through a smart curtailment system, and we discuss a new 1000ft tall offshore prototype that purports to replace dozens of turbines in one installation. 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. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  TRANSCRIPT - EP65 - Turbine Blades into Concrete? Bat Protection for Towers Plus 1000ft Offshore Turbine? 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. 0:37Welcome 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. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co host Dan Blewett. On today's show, got four really good topics number one we're gonna talk about GE working with with Lafarge wholesome on winter and blade recycling and mixing some of the, you know shredded up winter and bleeds into cement, which is a really cool idea. We'll talk about a new tool called dark that's going to help protect bats while hopefully keeping energy production up for some of these winter minds with their curtailment curtailment solution. We're gonna talk about this as my favorite thing of the week is the 1000 foot, it looks like a huge box fan. That's potentially going to be a an offshore solution, this new prototype said to be really, really powerful, and can essentially take all this sort of swept area and put it into one sort of condensed package. And then lastly, we'll talk a little bit more about these prototypes, a GE floating prototype, and all that stuff. And when before we get going, I want to remind you that you can subscribe to uptime tech news. So if you're a regular listener of the show listener to the show, number one, thank you. Number two in the show notes whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, you can just check right below there's a link and if you sign up, you'll just get an email from us every Thursday saying hey, we got a new episode. Here's some other great articles who found the web including the stuff that we discussed on the s...