Floating solar, Turbines help pump oil, Toyota’s portable hydrogen, and Power Curve’s Next Generation Vortex Generators

Germany's RWE is building the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in the North Sea, which will be powered by floating solar. The pilot is intended to jumpstart commercialization, which should begin in 2023. Is this a good idea, and if so, where does it make sense? How fossil fuels will continue to be integrated into renewable energy is a sticky subject, and definitely worth discussing. Speaking of integrating technology, Toyota introduced a portable hydrogen cartridge that might make swapping batteries as easy as picking up a new propane tank. Meanwhile, even as Norway’s Petroleum & Energy Ministry is researching energy transition opportunities for the country, it's questioning the profitability of Dogger Bank. And Power Curve CTO Nicholas Gaudern explains how Dragon Scales put a new spin on vortex generators. Visit Power Curve at http://powercurve.dk/ 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!  Uptime 126 Allen Hall: Everybody welcome back to Uptime. We have a great show for this week. We're gonna talk about floating solar and why Rosemary does not like floating solar and then we're gonna look at floating wind that is powering oil and gas rigs off the coast of Norway, which Rosemary again, doesn't like, but then we're gonna talk about something RO Rosemary really doesn't like, which is Toyota making hydrogen capsules. Allen Hall: You can take home and power your microwave with, and then we'll have a guest interview with Nicholas Gaudern CTO of Power Curve where we'll discuss the next generation of vortex generators so stay tuned. We'll be back after the music, Allen Hall: German energy firm, RWE is investing in a pilot project centered around the deployment of a floating solar technology up in the north sea. And they're calling it a floating solar park and it's gonna be installed off the waters off of the coast of Belgium. Allen Hall: It's gonna be a half a megawatt peak plant and the company that's developing this floating solar system, I guess the solar system does that sound right? that sounds odd. This company is named Solar Duck and it's a floating platform. So it's a it Rosemary, if you haven't seen this, it's a, it's a triangular set of solar panels on three legs that float above the, the, the surface of the ocean and they connect together.