Do wind turbines get damaged by high humidity levels? What can be done about it? This week's guest, Michael Holm from Cotes, explains that humidity control is often overlooked but very much a factor in driving energy costs down. Learn more about Cotes here. We also discussed the GE vs Siemens Gamesa patent lawsuit, pile-driving noise, and more.

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EP79 - Wind Turbine Humidity Issues with Michael Holm

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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

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and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host, Dan BlueT, on today's show, we've got an exciting episode.

First, we're going to chat through a couple of different environmental issues. Missouris been having some issues with bats. Amran, which is one of the big electrical utilities out in the Midwest, has had to shut down some turbines due to bats.

We'll talk about some of the issues there. We're also going to chat a little bit about pile driving noise as it relates to offshore wind construction, which is a big issue with the R friendly undersea mammals, because obviously sound travels very fast underwater.

And while driving is very, very loud. We'll also chat a little bit about a interesting case in Australia where a man living in a remote. Off the grid cabin is suing one of the wind farms out there for just the essentially the wooshing noise that comes from these blades tearing through the through the atmosphere.

So we'll talk a little bit about that and what might come of it. And then we have a great friend of the up time podcast today. And Michael Holm from Cotes is joining us to talk about humidity issues and wind turbines.

So look for that in about 15 minutes. Great conversation with him on all the ins and outs of humidity and what damage it can do to wind turbines onshore and offshore and some of their technology behind it....