Hyundai has pledged to create a hydrogen-powered version of each of their commercial vehicles by 2028 - is this realistic? Is it necessary? OEMs are reporting increasingly thin profit margins on wind turbine sales - can they improve profitability somehow? Plus, ComPair healable composites and the Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade is announced.







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Transcript: Hydrogen Cars by 2028? And, Can Wind Turbine OEMs Turn a Profit in 2021?



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protection 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



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and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host and blew it on today's show. We're going to talk about right off the bat, hydrogen news.



So Hyundai is pledging fuel savings, fuel cell versions of many, if not all of their make some models by 2028, which is going to be an interesting engineering challenge. We're going to talk a little bit about the overall state of renewables as it comes to sort of one drivers, the other that seems to be a lot of



infighting on the Web. Of course, that's what the Web is for, it seems like at times. But we'll talk a little bit about, you know, this whole sort of war on renewables and who's best or if we can all just kind of get along.



We'll chat a little about distributed wind. And interesting article from the United States Department of Energy, just highlighting some of the different uses here in the U.S. of distributed wind. We'll talk about winter manufacturers who are maybe getting their profit margins squeezed a bit as raw material and other costs rise.



And then we've got a bunch of interesting composited news. Talk to a bunch about that last week. But some more here with Compar has this self healing composite. They're a start up and they've got some interesting tech, some interesting belayed techs or some interesting blade rotor size designs.



And then some big news from Siemens with their recyclable blade technology, which almost a little bit seems to fly in the face of some of the other stuff we reported on last week about thermostats and reusing them. So before we get going, just want to remind you and no.



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And definitely check out Rosemary Barnes. Our other co-host, try host. What are you going to call her? Her awesome YouTube channel in the description below. So, Rosemary, let's start with you. So Hyundai is interested in hydrogen fuel cell versions of all their cars by 2028.



You're our hydrogen guru here. Does this seem like a reasonable step? I mean, that's only six years away. And I don't we don't have any hydrogen cars on the market.



I was surprised when I heard that. I think that they do actually already have a hydrogen SUV.