Polytech acquires Fos4x - what does this mean for the company? We discuss a broken wind turbine blade in Ohio that smells fishy, and chat a bit about the often overlooked small wind turbine market - can farms and small businesses actually sustain themselves using micro turbines?

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Full Transcript: EP26 - PolyTech Acquires Fos4x, the Small Wind Turbine Market & Broken Turbine Blade Causes

All right, welcome back. This is the uptime podcast. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. And I'm joined here for episode 26, remotely with our lightening expert Allen hall. How are you? Great, Dan. Hey, uh, Just some interesting news out of Germany, about some of the low frequency testing of wind turbine noise and potential health effects.

Uh, sounds like a couple of years study just got finished up. So definitely want to talk about that one today. Yeah. We haven't had as much research on the show of late, but I figured you were probably snooping around research gate and, and all those others for, for something. It couldn't have been long. So here we are.

Uh, also on the show today, we're gonna talk about, uh, A broken blade in Ohio, which you think is probably lightning related, but they don't really have a strong cause yet. So that's pretty interesting, a really big lightning strike court in Florida. Something like almost off the charts, a little bit of a offshore wind news, uh, from New Jersey.

And a big acquisition between Polytech? Uh, well, not between, but Polytech acquiring a Fos4x, which is a sensor technology company. And lastly, we'll talk a little bit about that low frequency noise, uh, study, and just talk a little bit about a small wind turbines because that's one we haven't covered too much.

We've covered different types, like the typhoon turbine and sort of different variations, but the small one turbine market is. Out there and it's growing and it's becoming more and more viable as technology increases. So we'll chat a little bit about that. So let's start with this broken blade. So you kind of have like this theory, um, and it doesn't seem like they really know what's going on yet.

And like, they just have like one drone photo and they're doing some, uh, but it's, it's a pretty impressive photo. Like the blade broke off very close to the root and it was only what, six months old. So this really should really shouldn't happen. So what's your, what's your take? There was some discussion online about it and, and they were talking about possible overspeeds.

An overspeed condition happens when there's large wind speeds, the control system for the turbine. Doesn't address those high speeds and essentially feather the blades and slow down the rotation. Right? Overload structure, overload conditions. That doesn't seem likely, uh, just because the blade, well, it's a new turbine.

So usually overspeed conditions happen on failure modes on older turbines as systems don't work li...