A wind turbine technician fell down the inside of a wind turbine blade, prompting a successful rescue effort despite a scary situation. Will we see more of this with an increase in blade interior diameters? Plus we talk about misinformation and GE's recent press about testing blade tip aerodynamic add-ons. Watch this episode on YouTube here.



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Transcript: Wind Tech Falls Inside Blade; GE Test Blade Tip Add-ons; Plus New Tallest Turbine?



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



0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 67. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's episode, we're going to talk about some disinformation maybe just a good meme. But we'll talk about the continued trend of the internet, sometimes ruining everything. We'll also chat about some, you know, a really scary incident with a wind turbine tech recently out of Iowa fell down the inside of a blade rescue effort and was successful, it was mostly unharmed. But still interesting thing with some interesting implications. We'll talk about some work GE is doing their ta project trying to get a little more aerodynamic efficiency out of their offshore blades, and a really interesting cast in place concrete tower concept. So before I kick it to my co host, Allen Hall, just remember we've got uptime tech news is our new newsletter, you can sign up in the description of this podcast below whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, wherever. And that's just our monthly, it's not our monthly that's our weekly update, where we're going to send you the new podcasts, some great news from around the web, new tech, all the stuff that we're keeping you up to date on so if you enjoy the show, you'll definitely enjoy just getting our weekly uptime tech news update. So sign up for that in the show notes of this podcast. So Alan, how you doing sir? Let's first let's talk about some disinformation. So first, on Facebook, this thing just started going around. It's like Haha, look at this wind turbine that melted in the Texas heat. And they showed one of those photos which are crazy photos of. So it sounds like this was a turbine damaged by a storm where basically all three blades were damaged and essentially just wilted.



2:46Did you see So? What were your thoughts on on a this photo in general it's a pretty dramatic photo of this whole winter and just wilted it is. The early indications about the photo were that it was a lightning strike. That's the that was the first thing I saw. And then the heat.



3:03The discussion about where it got so hot in Texas that the places melted. Yeah, just just wilted like, right. That was Haha, funny. And then the latest was maybe as wind speeds. But I have none of the other wind turbines in that area had that same fault. So make sure you don't feel like lightning strike broke one of the blades and then it cascaded into vibration, which broke other ones and everything still looks like ...