9 Wood Wind Turbine towers, Batteries and Leading Edge Erosion

Wood wind turbine towers: are they here to stay? Will they catch fire if struck by lightning? Is it worth it over steel? We also discuss battery technology, leading edge erosion and what causes it, and more. 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!  Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com EP9 - Wood Wind Turbines & More: Full Transcript All right. Welcome back. This is the uptime podcast is episode nine. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. I'm joined here remotely by a lightening expert, Alan Hall. Alan, how are you? Hey, Dan, how are you? Crazy week this week, huh? Yeah, man, we were busy and, uh, DCS extended their lockdown until June 8th, so like longest in the world. Uh, but till wait till when? June, June, June 8th, June 8th. Oh my gosh. Yeah. We're going to be out of lockdown next week. Uh, and I, it's sort of County by County a little bit, but I, I doubt that we're gonna. Washington D C is unique because it's its own entity, right? I guess so. And someone was asking me, they're like, well, DC doesn't have a governor. Is it like, does the mayor have the power to do that? And I, I assume so. I don't really know. Of course. Seems like all the governors are getting sued and losing anyway. So it's like, I don't even know what's happening in our country. It's like, okay, no one has the power to do anything. So let me go. Let's go. Right. Yeah. No, I think, uh. I was telling you earlier, listening to CNN is making me nuts. Uh, it's just constant new, normal, new, normal. Well, when has society been a normal, I don't know when that is. And reporters talking about new normal, it seems to me is. Just abs from an engineer is, and this is an engineering perspective on all this, there is no normal, because every day we're trying to make the world a little bit better, or it's changing in some way or another, and there is no normal. So tomorrow is different than today as it was different than 10 years ago. So what, right. Yeah. I mean, I get that, but there's, this is definitely some sort of new normal, like I have to wear masks to go in an elevator, like that's not. That's not normal to you use that term. Well, I get that. Yeah. Okay. So have you ever been in an airplane where people smoked? No. Alright. Right. You ever been in an office where people smoked? No, I was right. You ever use a rotary telephone? Like what? The actual dial, you had to spin the damn thing. A millennial, you know that I haven't, no. I grew up on Instagram actually. I didn't tick down much, much on much past all that. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Fair enough. Fair point.