Rosemary Barnes and Allen Hall are joined by Wind Power Lab's Joel Saxum to discuss the latest news from American Wind Power 2022!







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Allen Hall: We're at American clean power in San Antonio, which is gonna have about eight to 10,000 people from the looks of it. So it's gonna BES gonna be a really, really big show.



Allen Hall: Welcome back to the uptime podcast. I am a co-host Allen hall here. Rosemary Barnes all the way from Australia. And we also have Joel Saxon from wind power lab. Yeah. Exciting. 



Rosemary Barnes: I came all this way, so that'd be good. 



Joel Saxum: in the 95 degree heat. Yeah. 



Rosemary Barnes: Was with the heat. I was not expecting this. 



Allen Hall: It's really hot in San Antonio this week.



Allen Hall: I, I don't know how we manage it. Cause it's, it's the middle of. And it should be in the eighties and it's a hundred plus degrees right now. 



Rosemary Barnes: It's high thirties for everybody out there who uses sensible temperature. 



Joel Saxum: west Texas set records. The last two weeks, the other weekend, it was the first or the earliest in the year they ever had triple digit temperatures the three days in a row.



Allen Hall: Wow. So it's 



Rosemary Barnes: too hot. Yeah. And it's interesting cuz I saw when I was just last week, I, it was the first time I looked at the forecast to see what clothes that I should have with me. I saw that they're already, they're giving over the weekend. They were giving requests for people to please, you know, turn your thermostat up and, you know, not use the air con if you didn't need to, because they're worried about the grid already 



Joel Saxum: in may.



Joel Saxum: I think I read yesterday, Hercu had six plants 



Rosemary Barnes: go offline gas plants. Yep. You have to specify because yeah. Gas plants, no matter what it's that happens, you know, it's renewables that are gonna get 



Joel Saxum: the blind. Yes, this is true. This is true. Yes. Six gas plants had just kind of cascaded. 



Allen Hall: Last 



Rosemary Barnes: week. Yeah.



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I think a call line is still waiting to come back line after some, some maintenance as well. So yeah. When week in 



Allen Hall: Texas. 



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. Yeah. So it was a good week to have the, the conference what's happening.



Allen Hall: so today's Monday, we're recording on the Monday before the conference. There we were ex we are exhibiting on the show floor with P.



Allen Hall: We had access to the floor. There are a lot of, of exhibitors at this conference. This is by far, clearly the biggest conference in the United States, not even close. So Vestus GE all the big names are here. Sky specs and all the drone companies are here. It's just everybody. The Dan Danish consulates here.



Allen Hall: It's a huge show. And I was surprised. I was thought when we walked in today, it was gonna be a little bit slow, just looking at the number of people on the outside, but it's 105. So you can't really tell cause everybody's in air conditioning, but when you walked in, there was just a massive amounts of people and that was just people registering.



Allen Hall: So I'm expecting yeah. Upwards of 8,000 people here this weekend. I, I think that's good because we've had two years of really not seeing anybody mm-hmm yeah. And, and now we are, we're finally back to the point. Everybody seems pretty comfortable being around one another. There was hardly a mask on the floor.



Allen Hall: Sorry, rose me.