Rosemary Barnes from Pardalote Consulting and the popular YouTube Channel, Engineering with Rosie, joined us to share her take on wind energy. Ms. Barnes has a Ph.D in composite materials and structural design, and has worked for LM Wind Power, where she oversaw blade heating systems, among other projects. In this episode, she shared her insights on how wind turbine blade design has evolved, what the future of wind power might look like, vertical vs horizontal wind turbines, and how we can make more efficient energy transitions.



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Transcript: EP64 - Rosemary Barnes of Pardalote Consulting talks Wind Turbine Blade Design & Sharing Her Knowledge on YouTube



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Allen Hall 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall.



Dan Blewett 0:39I'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.



Dan Blewett 0:58All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 64. And we have a great guest today, Rosemary Barnes is joining us on the show. She is a consultant with Pardalote. And she also runs the YouTube channel Engineering with Rosie where she educates the public on all sorts of topics in wind, wind energy, on wind turbine design, on blade aerodynamics, lots of really interesting stuff, tons of new videos on green hydrogen. So we wanted to have Rosie on the show to share her expertise. And let me run down a little bit of her background. So she has her PhD in structural design and composite materials from the University of New South Wales Canberra campus in Australia. She was worked for lm wind power as a engineer, and she just has a lot of experience a lot of different areas in the wind industry and as an engineer. So Alan, what were some of your takeaways from our talk with with Rosie,



Allen Hall 1:59just like the way she thinks she thinks in terms of systems, not in terms of components. And I think that's a for an engineer is a good way to think about bigger problems. And if you've watched some of our YouTube videos, she talks about different parts of the what I'll call the renewable energy or green energy economy and how that can function and whether we can do the things that are being promoted by in some cases, politicians, and whether that really can come from reality. And if you start looking as a whole system of components, green hydrogen or tidal power or vertical wind, turbans, there's a lot more to it, then then you would think, and it's a normal person who's not an engineer would think about and she's an engineer and she's been around for quite a while and so she can connect the dots for you and and it's extremely helpful to make it make it more realized. Is it realizable? Or is it not aware that wrote are the real costs in doing this and they may not be just in the component themselves, like a vertical winter, maybe all the other things and like, how, how much does it operate? Is it efficient? Can you can you scale it up all those different aspects and and that's what makes her approach a...