A train collided with a wind turbine blade while in transport on a flat-bed truck. It was a scary situation, and fortunately no one was hurt. But why did it happen? Sea Floor mapping drone technology is improving - what will this mean for offshore wind? We also discuss the Jones Act being invoked in wind installations off the U.S. coast, and whether or not thermoset composites can actually be re-used.

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Transcript - EP77

This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning

protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett.

I'm Allen Hall.

And I'm Rosemary Barnes

And this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Side podcast. I'm your co-host and blew it on today's show. We are going to talk a little bit about the construction process and some of the things that can go wrong, unfortunately.

You know, we've got a recent story of a train colliding with a truck carrying a wind turbine blade. So this is obviously bring a big spotlight to, you know, just some of the difficult logistics and the overall sort of construction environment where there's so many pieces involved, so much going on.

We'll talk a little bit about that today. We're talking a little more about wind turbine blade recycling. Vestas has an initiative, as does Siemens, Gamesa for the Future. We'll talk about the Jones Act as it's dealing with offshore wind, some sea floor mapping drones and a little bit about this offshore open hydro tidal turbine that's now being

removed from the ocean. And before we get going, I just wanna remind you that in the description on this podcast, you'll find uptime tech news, which is our weekly newsletter update for our podcast and other great news are on the website if you want to stay updated with everything.