In episode seven of the Uptime podcast, Dan and Allen discuss digital twins, the idea that data analysis can be visualized as an actual twin of the wind turbine in question. Vestas announces huge jobs cut and a wind turbine goes down in Kansas.

Check out the Windpower Engineering article on digital twins here: https://www.windpowerengineering.com/how-digital-twins-could-transform-the-wind-energy-industry/

Transcript

Dan: All right. Welcome back. This is the Uptime Podcast. This is episode seven. I'm your cohost. Dan Blewett, and I'm joined here remotely by lightning protection expert, Allen Hall. Allen, how you doing? 

Allen: Hey Dan. Good. How are you? 

Dan: I'm doing great. Doing great. A little more energy this week. A lot of rain, but it didn't deter me.

I got some good smells going on in my, in my place at the moment and got some pine tree scented wax melt or something. So it 

Allen: smells like the outside. 

Dan: You haven't seen smells like the forest. Yes. So doing all right. Doing all right. How are you doing? 

Allen: well, you know, we're just kind of in quarantine mode.

The governor extended our quarantine till May 18th. So we thought we were going to get offs, out of this quarantine sometime next week at that. That was the original plan, I think of May 4th or fifth was the original date. So now we're out to May 18th, and everybody's going stir crazy. Massachusetts has had a little bit of uptick in, in Corona virus cases, new cases.

So the, the issue is. Massachusetts is a very long state and very narrow States, and Boston is near the water and we live on the far opposite end. In fact, grow on the state line. So when things happen in Boston, what tends to happen to the whole state ends up. doing the same thing. So Boston being in the Capitol, Massachusetts decides that there's, there's, an issue in Boston for coronavirus, so the whole state shuts down.

So we, on the Western part of the state are just kind of wondering what's going on and when we can kind of get back to work. In fact, today, I thought. I was just going to and from the office and thought, boy, there's a lot of cars on the road today, so I kind of wonder if people are starting to hit the streets again.

You see a lot of masks. All everybody's got a mask on and the grocery stores are full of masks. You see people walking up and down the streets, which you didn't see a week ago. So people are starting to get out and about a little bit. I think in our case, it's pretty calm in this part of the state. 

Dan: Yeah.

Well, so what's your opinion? So we're, I was talking about this on one of my other podcasts. the idea of, you know, businesses opening back up and people are starting to get, like you said, more than just a rumbling. But I mean, some people are protesting, obviously about, you know, we need to get to bed, we need to get back to work, let us take on the risk, whatever.

obviously, I don't know why barbers have been like the highlighted ones. I don't know why. Like if they seen a salon owner, like I get that. Like, I have no issue with salons and barber shops opening up like small foot traffic. You know? I feel like that's reasonable. If you're going to slowly, you know, let some businesses reopen, that seems completely fine.

Like we can't be in this forever. Right,