EP85 – Air Conditioning From Solar Panels? Plus, Turbine Rotor Dropped in the Ocean

This week, Glen Ryan, Co-Founder of Sunovate, an innovative solar startup with technology to convert solar energy from photovoltaic panels into not only electricity, but heating and air conditioning for commercial buildings and homes. Glen, also the inventor of Bombora Wave Energy shares his entrepreneurial journey and where Sunovate is headed. We also discuss a recent mishap aboard the jack-up vessel the MPI Adventure, in which a full rotor was dropped into the sea. No one was injured, thankfully, but what happened? Plus, Siemens Gamesa's new Virginia, United States factory, Google 24/7 and more. 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. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - Episode 85 with Glen Ryan of Sunovate 00:00:00:13 - 00:00:21:08UnknownThis 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 strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning 00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. 00:00:59:21 - 00:01:19:03UnknownWelcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. Number one, we've got a great friend of up time, Glen Ryan, who's the co-founder of Sunovate is going to be joining us to talk about his new startup, which is a fascinating new idea and use for PV, you know, solar panels 00:01:19:03 - 00:01:37:02Unknown, which not just turning solar energy into electricity, but also to potentially heat commercial and home spaces, among other things. So really interesting things all over his conversation in about 20 minutes. first, we're going to talk today about Tesla, some interesting new battery technology that they're waiting for Chinese patents to run out and then they're going to be 00:01:37:02 - 00:01:56:10Unknown. It looks like going after that technology hard to bring to their their cars, and we'll see what Alan and Rosemary think about the trickle down effect of that technology here in the U.S. and other places. We'll talk about a really crazy video of a and you've probably seen it if you're president of the wind industry of a