Is anything more important than safety? We hope the answer is as obvious as the question is rhetorical. This week's guest, Michele Goulet of Petzl, offers insight into fall protection, access and rescue equipment, and tips for managing in emergency situations, plus how to evaluate helmet features to best protect yourself and your workers.



Also in this episode, Joel Saxum (of Wind Power LAB) joins Allen and Rosemary to discuss carbon capture. What are the best locations for those projects? How big a role will it play in the future? When will the technology catch up with the problem?



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Michel Goulet: [00:00:00] So Petzel is really in the, uh, in the business of providing fall protection, access equipment and rescue equipment, uh, for, for many industries, including, uh, the wind energy, uh, sector.



Welcome 



Allen Hall: to the uptime wind energy podcast. I am your co-host Allen hall and here from Canada. The queen of COVID Dr. Rosemary Barnes. Welcome Rosemary. Thanks. And 



Rosemary Barnes: yeah. Thanks you think right. It's not my favorite introduction, but accurate on this particular 



Allen Hall: day. we're always truthful on this show. Very truthful and from the largest wind energy state in America, Texas Joel Saxum of Wind Power LAB.



Welcome [00:01:00] Joel. 



Joel Saxum: Thank you, sir. That's true. 



Allen Hall: We have a very busy, busy week. Uh, we're all still recovering from ACP, San Antonio. Uh there was an outbreak of COVID evidently and everybody's still recovering, but, but we're back and better than ever. So let's get, uh, Rosemary's thoughts on this carbon removal technology that the us government is throwing three and a half billion dollars at, and then we have a guest interview.



We haven't had those in a. So we're gonna have Michel Goulet from Petzl, one of Rosemary's favorite helmet makers. And Michel's gonna talk about all the different safety, uh, products that they have and what you need to do with your safety gear to check it out, make sure it's working properly and how to dispose of it.



This is a lot of good, good information there from Michel. And then after, uh, the interview with Michel, we have we'll talk about the DOE 2022 collegiate wind farm collegiate wind competition. We all saw down in San Antonio, which is [00:02:00] really, really cool. So how Rosemary kind of describes some of that carbon removal technologies.



So Rosemary, this is in your sweet spot of, uh, us federal government is, is gonna pour 3.5 billion into carbon capture. So a carving capture. So the department of energy said, uh, it's gonna support four. Large scale, regional direct air capture hubs. And so where those are, we should find out. Cause it doesn't really talk to that, uh, that they hope to remove 1 million tons of carbon dioxide annually at each of these four hubs.



So part of the two, two companies get named quite often are carbon engineering and, and climb works. And I think we've talked about climb works. What building, uh, direct air capture facilities. And Rosemary, you and I have talked about what those facilities do and what they, what they try to do. If they're trying to remove 1 million, tons of CO2 [00:03:00] annually, the us produces about 5,000 million metric, tons of CO2.



So it's like four out of 5,000. There's a big gap there. What, what are they gonna learn with these 1 million to. CO2 removal systems. 



Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I, I mean, so I think I probably would've said this the last time that we...