10 Leading Edge Erosion: Can Nickel Cobalt Save Turbine Blades? Plus, Is HVDC the Future?

In episode 10, Allen and Dan discuss new nickel cobalt wind turbine leading edge protection tiles that can be retrofitted onto blades to enhance their leading edge durability. Leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades is a huge, industry-wide problem that is yet to be solved...is this new application of airplane propeller technology able to fix it? Also discussed was HVDC (high voltage direct current) and it's potential to replace HVAC (high voltage alternating current) as the top transmitter of power from offshore wind farms to the power grid. 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 Uptime Wind Energy Podcast? Email us!  Read articles on nickel cobalt tiles here: https://www.windpowerengineering.com/new-research-brings-aerospace-blade-protection-to-the-wind-industry/ and here: https://www.tdworld.com/renewables/article/20972636/getting-offshore-wind-power-on-the-grid EP10 - Nickel Cobalt Leading Edge Protection & HVDC Power: Full Episode Transcript Check out our YouTube video version here: https://youtu.be/a8vHHqEmG98 https://youtu.be/a8vHHqEmG98 At Weather Guard Lightning tech, 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. 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. Allen, episode 10 of the Uptime Podcast. How, how do you feel about this double digit. It's exciting, isn't it? Yeah. Two two digits. Yeah. We've made it. We're big time now. We've got a long way to go get to get to three digits. That's the problem. That's a big gap. It's, yeah, and then we get the four digits as it's like we'll both be dead. We'll both be dead by that point. It's exponential. A long time. Yeah. We need to get to where we can count it. Well, are we at a w? No, we don't have any exponents yet. We've got to get some, have an exponent. Well, 10 to the second, 10 to the second, and we're tend to the zero. Is that where it, no, 10 zero would be one 10 to the first. Wouldn't tend to the zero B zero I liked under the zeros one. Hmm. I could be wrong. Isn't major in math, so it's fine. We're good? Yeah, we're good. So Corona virus week, like 97 Oh one minute recap.