Our interview with Prometheus Wind Founder and CEO Will Friedl touches on the somewhat inspirational nature of the industry (really) and explains the literal nuts and bolts of keeping turbines in good working order. Understanding the difference between torque and tensioning is just the beginning. 



Also in this episode, Allen describes some of the chemical and mechanical engineering innovations Siemens Gamesa has employed to make recyclable blades, which are expected to be installed this summer. Rosemary expands on what Australian election results may mean for wind (and other green energy efforts), and Joel has some serious questions about the ESG rating system. 



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Will Friedl: [00:00:00] So my background is in the Air Force. I started, uh, once I graduated the Air Force Academy in 2012, I started out as a combat rescue officer. And, um, my job was obviously working in personnel recovery and working with small teams, kind of geographically separated and doing some really fun things. Um, were jumping out of planes, riding in helicopters, um, doing all the things that, you know, you associate with, uh, you know, military special operations.



And it's a really good group of guys to be a part of



Allen Hall: Welcome to the uptime podcast. I am your co-host Allen hall here with Rosemary Barnes and Joel Saxum. And we have a really packed show today. We are talking about the Siemens Gamesa recycled wool blade. That's going to be put out in the [00:01:00] ocean off the coast of Germany coming up this summer. Uh, the Biden Harris administration is proposing offshore leases off shore or California.



And then we have a really interesting guest will Friedel CEO of Promethease wind will be here, and he's going to be talking about tensioning and torquing, a Boltzmann like tower bolts that are super 



Rosemary Barnes: important. And then after the interview, we're going to talk a bit about the, uh, Australian election that we recently had a change of government.



And I explained a little bit about some of the unique features of the Australian electoral system. So how led to that. And then we talk about ESG ratings and how it can be that a green sort of company like Tesla can get kicked out of the S and P 500, whereas fossil fuel company like Exxon mobile can, um, ExxonMobil can remain within it.



Allen Hall: Can I see him as can Mesa is since we're producing the [00:02:00] first recyclable blade and actually going to deploy it off shore now, uh, there are factory in whole, in the UK, which is a big factor for Siemens Gamesa in terms of blades is the one producing it. And they're, they're, they're using that, uh, recycled blades technology, uh, and when the blade is finished, it's going out to RWS installation in cus cockies cut costs, cuts, cuts, see?



Oh, sure. Wind farm Ks, K a S I C I don't know. Oh, yeah, it's missing a consonant somewhere in there. So it's in the German, German, north sea. It's going out there this summer, Rosemary. So like, like, like it's soon, right? Uh, the resin system is created by here's another name I'm going to murder Adida, Burleigh, advanced materials so that they created this resonance system a while ago.



Evidently. And if you go onto the website, like I did, you can actually see some pretty cool, uh, description of what it is, but it does. It's what Rosemary has talked [00:03:00] about and explained to us before Joel, which is you can get a thermoset and it sort of interlinks together.