4 Can Drones Improve Wind Turbine Uptime & Inspections?

In episode four, we evaluate the effects of COVID-19 on wind turbine site completions, how we detect lightning strikes, and how companies like SkySpecs (https://skyspecs.com/) are changing the way we handle inspection data. 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!  Transcript: Can Drones Improve Wind Turbine Inspections? 00:00:09 - 00:05:02 Welcome back this is the time podcast. I'm your host. Dan Blewett. And I'm joined here remotely by lightning protection expert Allen Hall. Allen, How're you doing? Great Dan how are you doing all right doing all right? It's it's breezy out here in DC. Today it's pretty Nice Still a ghost town but in general. I'm I'm getting honestly pretty comfortable being at home every day. What about you? You're getting used to self-isolation? I hope I don't get leading. We're all you know comfortably. Sort of locked into the house My Wife said she. My wife has been delivering Groceries to local families that are people that can't really get out of house are probably shouldn't be at the grocery store you said She was delivering groceries to Somebody in the community and a neighbor popped out yelled at her. She should be worrying that my wife had been wearing a mask and I thought well it was the The way it was delivered wasn't very Maybe that wasn't the right approach but I think the intent was good. So yeah. Yelling probably isnt the way do it. Yeah okay good idea to wear a mask but it was like. Hey you can Yeah there's different ways of going about it but We're we're seeing people People are being a lot more cautious than they were two weeks ago or even a week ago quite honestly. I thought people were some of them. Were not doing smart things but that seems to have got away so the same people that were like out having fun or go into a restaurant or bar or now wearing a mask and a very cautious of other people so maybe the message has gotten through. Yeah I mean I think that's the rookie like if we can just cut out all the fun then will be good for this. Specific strain cove in nineteen really thrives. On Fun Yeah. No Ping Pong. No chutes and ladders What else no jacks like. A nineteen forties game the other. We go Yeah it's been interesting. I like I'm never home so this has really been new for me even though I work completely remotely I'm still just never home. I just choose to be out working either in a co working space around a coffee shop and just I just. That's my vibe. But I'm finally getting a little more comfortable being just here which is okay like productive. Yeah it's fine. I can do everything to do. I have a setup that I've you know orchestrating. Everyone's you know Jerry. Rigging, macgyver rigging their their their little home studio areas or whatever and so. It's you know you start to realize that you're dug in for the long haul. Years. Just coming to terms that were cave people now like the people you find those little mud little mud caves are like undergroun...