T-Omega Floating Wind, SGRE vs GE, Roads as EV Chargers, Coldplay buys Flower Turbine

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

While GE just lost the latest round in the patent lawsuit saga with Siemens Gamesa, an appeal is already in the works. We discuss how the process (and politics) will affect wind energy innovation, development, and production. Speaking of innovation, T-Omega's floating wind turbines have a very unusual design, more like a ferris wheel than an iceberg. In small scale testing, models look promising. T-Omega says it's looking for manufacturers who "aren't locked into legacy technology." The company might need more than that, though. Several US states are collaborating, partly in an effort to replace gas tax revenues, to enable electric vehicles to charge while they drive. And in possibly the coolest product placement ever, Coldplay is taking a wind turbine on tour. It's made by Texas startup Flower Turbines. Rosemary says small wind may inspire change, but questions its actual impact. Allen will try to get Coldplay on a future podcast. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com 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! Uptime 132 Allen Hall: Hello everyone. We have an amazing show for you this week. T Omega creates a wind turbine that looks like a Ferris wheel, and then GE gets an injunction against them by Siemens Gamesa. We talk Joel Saxum: about electrifying highways to charge electric vehicles and with a specific focus on heavy haul trucks. Rosemary Barnes: And then finally, we're gonna talk about my favorite topic small vertical access wind turbine that looks pretty and doesn't generate only and doesn't generate any electricity. Allen Hall: Hey, everybody. If you're a frequent listener to this podcast, please take a moment and give us a five star rating on this podcast platform. It makes a. Difference to us, and it allows our podcast to be played in in new places. And to subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Uptime Tech News, which can be found by just Googling uptime tech news, and you'll go right to it. I'm Alan Hall, President of Weather Regard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with my good friend and blade expert Rosemary Barnes, and my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxon. And this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Okay, first up Boston Startup to Omega win says it's model tested of a unique floating wind turbine design. So Rosemary, it looks like two triangles, side by side, and in between those triangles is a a three bladed wind turbine. So it resembles a sort of a Ferris wheel design. Two Omega is, is interest in this design because they think it takes a lot less materials to build it. It's a lot simpler to build, and you don't have complicated bearing structures to support the spinning winter blades. The group is out of Northeastern, which is a college in Boston, but they're, they're saying like their sweet spots can be like seven to eight megawatts in. The amount of in sort of energy and cost to build the thing is gonna be like a fraction of what it takes to build a seven eight megawatt turbine right now, just because of the difference in design, they're using simpler design techniques, things that are general walls, steel tubes, everything's lighter. It basically just floats on top of the, of the waves. It doesn't have a, a counterweight at the bottom, like the standard horizontal access wind tur is due. They are getting money. They got funded and free show. We were just talking about our renewable energy companies in Boston getting funded. And this is another one of those they've received. Yeah. $256,