In this episode, we discuss the installation of offshore wind turbines at Hornsea 2, which are being embedded in the seafloor via suction caisson jackets. But, how do they work? We also discuss Australia's future in renewables, the Sami people's legal battle over a wind farm that disrupts reindeer herding. Plus, can Puerto Rico's electricity grid be rebuilt with renewables, or only with fossil fuel sources, as is currently proposed?



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Transcript: Uptime 83 - Off-Shore Wind Turbine Suction Caisson Installations - How do They Work?



This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a striketape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning



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



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. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. on today's show. We've got a bunch of Australian news we'll start off with.



So Rosemary is going to have some a strong presence in this episode, as if she didn't already. We'll talk about some of Australian entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes, and he's the founder of Atlassian, which is an amazing suite of software products.



Some of his ideas for Australia's renewable future. We'll talk a little about battery manufacturer Red Earth and some of the things they're doing. Kind of like Tesla's Powerwall. They have a bunch different storage solutions over in Australia. We'll talk about some of the seas and wind in Australia.



And then moving on, we'll chat a little bit about this reindeer situation with the Sami people in Norway is a really interesting ruling that could get a wind farm dismantled if their lawyers. Right. We'll talk about crabs and their electromagnetic fields.



We'll talk about suction, caissons and some of the new offshore wind turbine foundation jackets that have just been installed. An update on the horn seeta wind farm, a 107 meter, a wind turbine blade mold. And lastly, will shed a little bit about Puerto Rico and their electric grid to rebuild.



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And definitely subscribe to Rosemary Barnes's YouTube channel, which you'll also find in the description of this podcast. So, Rosemary, come up on stage. Let's talk about Australia here. So might Mike Cannon-Brookes again. He's a co-founder, co CEO of Atlassian.



They make Trello Jera, which is their project development software. They had tons of teams work with that, getting projects from start to finish and a lot of other stuff. He's a big entrepreneur in Australia, and he says they should be aiming for 500 percent renewables.



Rosmarie, 500 percent seems ambitious.



Yeah, but I mean, if you think about it at the moment, the amount of calls with that Australia exports, I don't know what percentage we're at in terms of fossil fuel generation,