Hyundai has pledged to create a hydrogen-powered version of each of their commercial vehicles by 2028 - is this realistic? Is it necessary? OEMs are reporting increasingly thin profit margins on wind turbine sales - can they improve profitability somehow? Plus, ComPair healable composites and the Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade is announced.

Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! 

Transcript: Hydrogen Cars by 2028? And, Can Wind Turbine OEMs Turn a Profit in 2021?

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 striketape 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 Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host and blew it on today's show. We're going to talk about right off the bat, hydrogen news.

So Hyundai is pledging fuel savings, fuel cell versions of many, if not all of their make some models by 2028, which is going to be an interesting engineering challenge. We're going to talk a little bit about the overall state of renewables as it comes to sort of one drivers, the other that seems to be a lot of

infighting on the Web. Of course, that's what the Web is for, it seems like at times. But we'll talk a little bit about, you know, this whole sort of war on renewables and who's best or if we can all just kind of get along.

We'll chat a little about distributed wind. And interesting article from the United States Department of Energy, just highlighting some of the different uses here in the U.S. of distributed wind. We'll talk about winter manufacturers who are maybe getting their profit margins squeezed a bit as raw material and other costs rise.