Podcast appearances and mentions of Alan Hall

Joseph Chacon, CEO of Padge LLC, discusses the impact of electrical harmonics on wind turbines and solar systems, providing insights into causes, consequences, and effective solutions for improving power quality. 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! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining Light on Wind. Energy's brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering tomorrow. Allen Hall: Joe, welcome to the show.  Joseph Chacon: Thank you. I appreciate it.  Allen Hall: Well, I'm glad we connected, uh, through Jon Zalar, I believe, and we don't talk electrical power creation or what that. Kind of power we're creating and what the effect of that power is on systems downstream very often, uh, the Uptime podcast, because there's so many wind turbine issues, is mostly focused on mechanical problems. But we're finding that more and more problems may have an electrical origin. We wanted to get an expert in here that would be you to come help us on harmonics because there are requirements about harmonics.  Joseph Chacon: There are, uh, IEEE five 19 governs [00:01:00] the requirements for harmonics. At the point of common coupling. Allen Hall: That's correct. And your prior experiences with ge, which is now GE Renova down in South Carolina, that's correct. But you were involved, maybe give a brief description of the things you're working on because when electrical people talk, um, kind of gets lost in translation. You were knee deep, maybe waist deep, maybe eyeballs deep and electrical  Joseph Chacon: power at GE Renova? No, not, not knee deep, not weight deep, waist deep. I was baptized, completely immersed all the way in. I came shortly after the Enron acquisition. Um, I was one of the electrical engineering managers at the time. We had, uh, I think two or three at the time. Um, this was pretty early on. Uh, I got out of that because, uh, I'm, I like management, but I, I like electrical engineering, so I wanted to go back to being an individual contributor. Um, so I've touched just about [00:02:00] every electrical thing you can think of in a wind turbine. And also in solar  Joel Saxum: as well. You know, a little bit of a sidebar here 'cause I want, we want to definitely get into this deep technical conversation, but Joe, you touched on something that happens to people, right? You're a really good engineer, you've run a team, you've solved some problems. So now you get promoted to management, but you don't get to engineer as much anymore. So you get, like, you get, you start being leadership and like doing all these things, how to manage people, how to run a team, this, that, and that's great. We need that. The industry, every industry globally, we need to be able to do those things. But for engineers that have engineer at heart, and I'm, I'm also looking at you, Alan Hall. Uh, they, they wanna be able to engineer, right? They wanna be able to do stuff to make a difference to, to, to get hands on with a problem. So, so you, so you've done that though, right? That that's you, you are now, uh, Josh Shahan is, uh, pad LLC and  Joseph Chacon: pod is short for Padre, which is what my kids and grandchildren call me. They just shortened it from Padre to podge. 'cause saying two [00:03:00]syllables was too much and I liked it.  Joel Saxum: Yeah, I like that. Okay, so, so, so like we said, uh, you, you, you guys, you're getting deep into harmonics and other issues. You get called in by Solar Farms to solve problems and, and this is the thing Alan and I were kind of talking about off air a little bit is.

In this episode, we discuss an offshore vessel collision in the North Sea, highlight Louisiana's offshore wind ambitions, the latest developments in South Australia's renewable energy expansion. Plus we highlight an article from Buoyant Works in PES Wind Magazine. Register for the upcoming SkySpecs' webinar on turbine repair challenges! 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! Allen Hall: On Wednesday, April 30th at 11:00 AM Eastern, get that on your calendar. SkySpecs, Uptime and PES Wind are hosting our next session of a 10 part series of wind related items on their webinar. So this time it's gonna be about the the biggest challenges facing turbine repair teams today. And we're gonna have four experts besides Joel and me. I guess we don't count as experts, Joel. So we're gonna be talking to real experts. Sheryl Weinstein from Sky Specs, Alice Lyon from Lyon Technical Access. Craig Guthrie, who I've known forever from Takkion, and Jose Mejia Rodriguez from RNWBL. We'll be there to, uh, explain how you should be planning for this repair season. What are some of the approaches that the operators use and what works and what doesn't work? Things that if you're in the repair business or if you work. For a large, uh, operator or even a small operator you want to hear and participate in, there'll be a q and a session. So get all your questions ready, but [00:01:00] you first have to register and you can register in the link and the show notes below. Do not miss this event. April 30th, 11:00 AM Eastern. You won't wanna miss it. Speaker 2: You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here's your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Up in the Netherlands, three crew members were injured when an offshore support vessel struck a windman foundation. In the North Sea and the Royal Dutch Sea Rescue Society had to evacuate two of the injured crew members from the privately owned vessel. And a third uh, crew member went to get medical attention once they got back to port. Now, this occurred about 15 miles from the Netherlands shores, and the Dutch have opened an [00:02:00] investigation, and my first responses to reading this news was. How are we driving ships into foundations still? And Joel, can you explain all the technology that is there to prevent you from doing this? Joel Saxum: Well, every one of these vessels that operates in that environment is going to have a, a helm display, right? That's gonna have all of the things called stent and aids to navigation. So it's gonna have all the buoys, everything in the water that you could possibly run into. Some of 'em even have detailed stuff like pipeline data and stuff so you don't drop your anchors in certain places. But either way, they're gonna ha they're gonna have knowledge of this besides the fact that you can look out the window and see the tur, see a turbine that's 500 feet tall in front of you. That's a different story maybe. Um, but a lot of these vessels too, of this size. So this is a, um, a support vessel offshore. So there's all kinds of different classes of boats, things they do. But this thing may work in a wind farm. It may work for oil, uh, platforms, it may work for the fishing industries. Like it can do a lot of different stuff. But as a, as a [00:03:00] emergency response. Uh, vehicle. They also should be DP one. And when I say DP one, that's dynamic positioning.

We discuss the rapid rise of skills-based hiring in wind energy, with 81% of employers now prioritizing competency over degrees. Delaware strikes a major $128 million offshore wind agreement. We tackle the idea of "clean" natural gas. And mounting cybersecurity concerns arise as Chinese manufacturers gain control of critical supply chains. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Skills based hiring shakes up wind energy recruitment, while Delaware strikes a 128 million offshore wind deal. Plus, what's really behind those clean, natural gas claims? This is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. You're listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by BuildTurbines. com. Learn, train, and be a part of the clean energy revolution. Visit BuildTurbines. com today. Now, here's your hosts. Alan Hall, Joel Saxom, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Hey, Allen Hall: Uptime family. We've got something awesome brewing just for you. Want to help make your favorite wind energy podcast even better? Well, here's your chance. And yes, there's something special in it for you. We've created a quick five minute survey to learn what gets you excited about our show and what topics you'd love us to dive into. The best part, everyone who completes a survey and drops their email Will be entered to win one of our coveted Uptime Podcast mugs and they're so coveted I don't have one. It'll go along with your morning coffee while catching up on the latest wind energy news And your input means everything to us whether you've been with us since day one or just discovered us last week We want to hear your thoughts and our Wind energy O& M Australia event is on in a big way. We're all gonna be down there February 11th and 12th Bill, you want to give us the latest and greatest on sponsors and on the events at the conference? Phil Totaro: Yeah, so we just had two, uh, very big name companies, uh, sign up to sponsor corporate roundtables. One is GE Vernova, and the other one is Winergy. And at this event, we're going to have topics covering lightning protection and damage, leading into erosion, Condition monitoring technology, uh, noise and nuisance, uh, drive chain refurbishment, insurance, you name it. We've got it covered. Uh, so please register today if you haven't already. Allen Hall: And you can do that at windaustralia. com. So register now. Unlock your wind farm's best performance at Wind Energy O& M Australia. February 11th to 12th in sunny Melbourne. Join industry leaders as they share practical solutions for maintenance, OEM relations and asset management. Discover strategies to cut costs, keep your assets running smoothly and drive long term success in today's competitive market. Register today and explore sponsorships at www. windaustralia. com. Allen Hall: Well, the U. S. Department of Labor published a Skills First Hiring Starter Kit last fall, and this has touched off a broader discussion about worker qualifications. And in 2024, 81 percent of employers Uh, practice skills based hiring up from 73 percent in 2023 and just 56 percent in 2022, according to some research. So it's up by 30%, almost 30 percent right now since 2022. Now, an analysis by Indeed, which is a job site, found the number of job postings requiring at leas...

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On News Flash this week we cover BP and JERA joining forces to create a offshore wind partnership called JERA Nex. Also Ørsted has signed an agreement with Cathay Life Insurance to sell a 50% stake in the Changhua 4 offshore wind farm. And Solaria has announced plans to reach 14. 3 gigawatts of install capacity by 2028. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Welcome to Uptime News Flash. Industry news lightning fast. Your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxom, and Phil Totaro discuss the latest deals, mergers, and alliances that will shape the future of wind power. News Flash is brought to you by IntelStor. For market intelligence that generates revenue, visit www. intelstor. com. Allen Hall: First up this week, Phil, BP and JERA are joining forces to create a major offshore wind partnership called JERA Next. BP and this equally owned joint venture will have a total of 13 gigawatts potential net generating capacity combining the operating assets and the development projects all together. The partners have committed up to 5. 8 billion in capital funding through 2030. All right, BP is trying to slowly back away from some renewable energy projects, but now they've joined forces with JIRA. I want to understand what this dynamic is. Philip Totaro: Well, it's fascinating because with the resignation as well of the, BP offshore wind executive, their executive director It's almost like this is the full effect of the oil and gas pivot coming to fruition. It's kind of, it sounds to me, the way I read this is the resignation of, we're not really going to do offshore wind except through this venture with JERA from now on where they basically do all the work and we'll take a percentage. But it's, it just feels like BP's got bigger issues because even their oil and gas business isn't the healthiest at the moment. So, they're pivoting and focusing on that whilst providing JIRA the opportunity to continue the growth that they've been on. Joel Saxum: BP is confusing me here. I feel like their operations strategy and marketing and PR departments need to go and sit in a room together to figure out what they're actually doing. They're in the midst of selling all their onshore assets in the U. S. We know that. They've, sold stakes in certain offshore projects in the U. S. They've said they're not going to do wind. They said they were going to do wind. So it'd be interesting to watch this one. And I think Phil, the, what you're talking about is mirroring some of what others are doing, right? Like we know Shell now, Shell's out. They're like, we're not doing offshore wind anymore. And we've seen Econor take a stake in Orsted to be able to provide capital, provide support, but kind of stand back and let the other people do it and just be a part of it. And that's what it looks like BP is doing here more now. So maybe that just aligns with their strategy a bit better. For the long haul. So maybe we'll see some more people doing this, just providing capital, being a part of it, but. Allen Hall: Orsted has signed an agreement with Cathay Life Insurance, Taiwan's leading insurance company, to sell a 50 percent stake in the 583 megawatt grater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm. The 1. 6 billion transaction includes both ownership and funding commitments, with payments scheduled for 2024 and 2025. Phil,

Allen Hall speaks with Helicoid Industries' Dr. Lorenzo Mencattelli about their groundbreaking wind turbine blade LEP technology, which uses a biomimetic fiber pattern inspired by mantis shrimp. Their solution reduces erosion damage by 70% and can work with existing materials and manufacturing processes. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining light on wind energy's brightest innovators. This is the progress powering tomorrow. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Hall, and today we're discussing one of the most persistent challenges in the wind energy industry, beating edge erosion on the wind turbine blades. To discuss an innovative solution to this problem, we're joined by Dr. Lorenzo Micatelli, the Managing Director of Tech and Ops at Helicoid Industries. At Helicoid Industries, Lorenzo is spearheading the development of a groundbreaking technology that could significantly reduce leading edge erosion damage on wind turbine blades. Lorenzo. Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Lorenzo Mencattelli: Thank you very much, Allen for having me. Allen Hall: So leading edge erosion is one of those top issues, and I first ran across your company at DTU, at the Leading Edge Erosion Conference, and all the experts all around the world were there. I think it was in February or March earlier this year. And I sat through all the presentations and then Helichord came up and gave a presentation, and I was astounded because I hadn't seen anything like this technology before. But first I want to talk about how big of a problem this is, and I think during that DTU conference we realized it's a couple percentage points of power loss for a lot of operators, and it's structural damage when leading edge erosion penetrates through the shell of a winter blade. That's a huge problem. Lorenzo Mencattelli: Yeah, exactly. So the, the, the small percentage power loss is often acceptable if you want, because it doesn't really force the operator to, to stop the blade and, and perform maintenance and repair. But when the erosion gets to the composite substrate and therefore the structural integrity of the blade is compromised, then it carries a whole lot of other issues. And, and then operations need to stop. Allen Hall: Yeah, and that's where you see all the repair work going on, particularly in the United States, in the middle of the United States, where leading edge erosion has penetrated to the shell, and the amount of time and effort of independent people. service providers going and fixing blades, leading edge erosion is a, is an industry upon its own. And it's a little shocking actually that your technology hasn't been used yet. I want to just describe it here in a second because the, right now in order to prevent leading edge erosion out of the OEMs, the manufacturer's equipment, you have to apply Plastic, basically plastic shells or rubberized plastic shells or put some sort of thick coating on to the blades, which is somewhat effective. I would say it's going to give you a couple of years of life, but there really hasn't been a true fix. Lorenzo Mencattelli: Yeah, so the, the focus indeed has been mainly on developing new solutions for the coating, right? That is applied on the, on the leading edge,

This week on News Flash, Denker Wulf and Energie Engineering Nord are merging, Tata Power partners with the Asian Development Bank for $4.25 billion in clean energy projects, and TPG is considering buying Siemens Gamesa India assets. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Welcome to Uptime News Flash. Industry news lightning fast. Your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxum, and Phil Totaro discuss the latest deals, mergers, and alliances that will shape the future of wind power. News Flash is brought to you by IntelStor. For market intelligence that generates revenue, visit www.intelstor. com. Allen Hall: Well, Phil, Tata Power has signed a 4. 25 billion memorandum of understanding with the Asian Development Bank for clean energy projects. And the agreement was signed during the ongoing COP 29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. The key initiatives coming out Out of this include a 966 megawatt solar wind hybrid project and a pump hydro storage project. Now the partnership will support India's target of 500 gigawatt renewable energy capacity by 2030. This is really important, Phil, because Tata plays a significant role in that. A role in India's economy. Philip Totaro: And not just in renewable energy project development and asset ownership and operations. Obviously they've got automotive, they've got steel making, they do any number of things. They're a pretty diversified industrial company. And what actually a lot of people may not know is Tata Power is actually one of the top five asset owners and operators of renewable energy assets in India already. So getting an additional, MOU signed for, for 4. 25 billion is, is not going to hurt. But keep in mind, they also have broader ambitions outside of India. They, they signed an agreement with a company in Bhutan recently to do a five gigawatt renewable project there. They've had ambition in Sri Lanka and, other kind of regional markets within the Asia Pacific region there that it gives them, they've been kind of quietly going about, spreading their influence. And I, again, I think this is a fantastic move for them and, and to be able to get this Asian Development Bank agreement in place, I think is, if they get 100 percent of that, that money that they're, they're talking about in this MOU, that, that's really gonna help push Tata Power forward. Allen Hall: Well, staying in India, TPG is in advanced talks to acquire the Siemens Gamesa Indian assets. And that deal could, well, it's valued at more than 300 million currently. Now, TPG has emerged as a front runner after outbidding industry players and a number of private equity firms. And Phil, this is a valuable asset. I know a number of companies in India were really shooting for this Siemens Gamesa business. Thank you very much. But TPG has really rocketed to the top. Philip Totaro: Yeah, and it's, it's fascinating because I wouldn't actually have expected private equity to win this one. Mainly because the, what Siemens is, is really offering in terms of their asset portfolio in, in India is their manufacturing facilities. Any operations and maintenance agreements that they have and, and that entire side of the business, I would have thought that, They would have either split off that side of the business. Maybe the Chinese were going to come in and take over the factory space. So this is,

This week on Uptime Power-Up, a method from Vestas for modifying control of a wind turbine using load probability, a blade tip swap-out for Cypress turbines from GE, and a wind turbine tower with solar panels installed. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall, and idasaur's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Well, our first idea is from Vestas, and it is an idea where they're monitoring the Turbine tower loads for natural vibration frequency, and you say, well, why would you want to do that? Well, of course, as things change on a wind turbine, maybe something goes wrong. Those frequencies of vibration are going to change, and the system will detect those and say, hey, something is wrong. Here's probably what it is, which is a smart way of detecting failure modes in the turbine fill. But the other thing it could do, is push the turbine harder if it's not being driven hard enough and creating enough power. Philip Totaro: Yeah, and this is actually really fascinating because, again, this might not sound like the world's most revolutionary, innovation, but it's a practical solution to a challenge that is faced out there in the field when you're operating a wind farm. And specifically, in addition to just monitoring the, the tower loads and vibration over time, they have the option to monitor the max extreme load in relation to the original design load limit and readjust that max extreme load value over time as there's an evolution of the, the. Mechanical performance of, of the turbine. And that to me is, is really clever way of approaching this challenge of having additional safety factor. Or as we see in the United States where turbines get run a lot harder. Than they were potentially designed for. Sometimes because companies are trying to maximize their production tax, credit revenue. This is a way for a company like Vestus to keep an eye on whether or not they're exceeding a. Safety criteria, or by how much are you exceeding a safety criteria of, the design load limit versus the max extreme load limit, which will necessarily change over time. As components wear and, and as the tower sees certain load cases on it. So I, I like this one a lot. I think, again, this is a really practical and clever thing. It might not be, or sound like the world's most revolutionary. Invention ever, but I, I like stuff like this. This is a really great one. Joel Saxum: I think it's a functional way of ensuring the safety and operation of the turbine. Right. The, the ability to adjust and to understand what kind of loads are being sensed and of course, When we talk about load changes in turbines, it's every component is completely different, right? The loads in the blades and fatigue loads over time and what can be and can't be exerted on them. To, to look, like a 20 year old blade is a lot different than a one year old blade and a 20 year old piece of drivetrain is a lot different than a 20, a one year old piece of drivetrain. So adjusting those load limits by calculation and understanding as the turbine ages and operations change. It's something that should actually absolutely be d...

Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information about the killing of Arthur Easton almost forty years ago in Auckland. Mr Easton was stabbed to death in his Papakura home after confronting an inturder in October 1985. His murder led to the wrongful conviction of Alan Hall who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2022 after spending eighteen years in prison. Reporter Melanie Earley was at a news conference held by police today.

A $100,000 reward and possible immunity is on offer for clues leading to the conviction of whoever's responsible for killing Auckland man Arthur Easton almost 40 years ago. The case was re-opened after Alan Hall, the man found guilty of the murder, had his conviction quashed by the supreme court after it found a substantial miscrarriage of justice. Mr Hall spent 19 years in jail for the murder of Arthur Easton - who was stabbed to death during a home invasion in Papakura at about 8pm Sunday 13 October 1985. It was later found the description of the attacker and key witness statements has changed with original descriptions describing the offender as Maori, more than 6 foot and right handed; Alan Hall isn't. Earlier this year, three men were charged in relation to the wrongful conviction. Today flanked by photos of the brown wool beanie and knife used by the real killer Detective Inspector Warwick Adkin announced the reward, he spoke to Lisa Owen.

Police are going back through Arthur Easton's case file - looking for the person who killed him nearly 40 years ago. Easton was stabbed in his Papakura home in 1985. Alan Hall's wrongful murder conviction was only overturned after he'd spent 19 years in jail. Police are now offering a $100,000 reward - until January 24 - for information leading to a conviction. Detective Inspector Warrick Adkin says interviews are under way. "As investigators, we have a responsibility to look at all options when solving crime, and today's announcement, we hope, will provide the financial incentive to those people who have not shared any information to come forward." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Police have offered a $100,000 reward in relation to the murder of Arthur Easton 39 years ago in Papakura. Easton was stabbed to death in his hallway after confronting an intruder. The killing led to the wrongful conviction of Alan Hall. Senior investigations officer Detective Inspector Warrick Adkin spoke to media. *You can provide information directly to the investigation team by calling 0800 GROVE 1985 (0800 47683 1985). You can also email directly to Operation.Grove1985@police.govt.nz

This week on Power-Up, Allen and Phil discuss Bachmann's turbine monitoring system that combines vibration and acoustic sensing, Blade Robot's innovative drone delivered LEP robot, and a vest that allows you to carry your pets with you. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall, and idasaur's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right, Phil, our First idea is called a method and device for monitoring a machine state of a machine system, in particular a wind power plant. Now that's a lot of words for what is relatively a simple concept from Bachmann, and their idea is a means of monitoring for natural vibration patterns, which is kind of what they do already. So this falls right into their Their skill set, where they're looking for natural vibration frequencies of a wind turbine over time, and the, the beauty of this system is as the wind turbine ages and vibrations start to change a little more erratically, they can point out that something is off. Not necessarily be able to pinpoint it without having more data, but to say, Hey, this wind turbine has been altered. Let's go take a look at it. Bachmann does a lot of updated control systems for a number of turbines. This could be rather Phil Totaro: interesting if applied. And here's the really cool thing about this. I think if you're familiar with like motor racing, for example Formula One racing, they actually have. People who spend all day listening to their own car and their competitor's car to try and get the acoustic signature of the engine and see whether they're running it at full power, whether they're de-rating it, or whether or not there's like a, some kind of a mechanical issue during the course of the practice sessions, qualifying or the race. And, and that's kind of what Bachmann's adopting, is that same type of philosophy, to not only do the, the vibration monitoring, but combining that with the acoustic sensors that will allow you to determine if the pitch of your gearbox has changed a little bit through mechanical wear. A lot of just the vibration monitoring can throw up a lot of false positives. So combining the acoustic detection capability with the vibration monitoring actually, hopefully, improves the quality of detecting positive, well, we're calling it a positive, but detecting an issue. In the in the mechanical systems. So, kudos to, to Bachmann for, for coming up with something quite innovative. And, and I think that this is something that they are if they're not already using it, they are going to be using it commercially soon. Allen Hall: Well, in the area of leading edge erosion, there's been a lot of work from a number of companies and Blade Robots, which is an outgrowth of Festus. Has a new concept, which I, I think I've seen, Phil, where they have their leading edge robot, and if you've been at any of the international conferences, you may have seen this robot where the blade is sitting horizontally on the turbine, so everything's uptower, and the robot sits on the blade and then starts sanding and grinding and applying a new coating, As it moves towards the root, pretty slick. The, the issue with this whole approach though,

This week we go on a deep dive on offshore wind in the US--what's the status of projects that have been approved? Why do approvals for new sites seem to be slowing down? Is there enough manufacturing capacity to meet the transition goals? What can be done to boost wind energy growth? 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: All right, Joel, it's baseball season, and it's actually playoff baseball season. Did you have a bunch of money on the Brewers already? Joel Saxum: I don't bet on my own teams, but I love them. And my heart got ripped out of my chest last night watching that damn game. Because it was, if you didn't follow, it was 0 0 going into the seventh. We hit two back to back home runs, and the Brewers, everybody in Wisconsin was riding high, and then we had four runs rung up on us in the ninth. So there goes our playoff run. And I was looking forward to being able to josh back and forth with our weather guard, lightning tech COO about her Philly fanatic fandom. But we won't get to see them in the playoffs. Allen Hall: Well, it is fall in America, and that's when the baseball playoffs start and college football kicks off. So everything, food wise, changes. The pumpkin spice is out, Joel. Not a fan. God, please. No one's a fan of pumpkin spice? Pumpkin spice French toast, I'm a fan of, but that's the only thing. That's not bad. What about squash and cranberries? I mean, you gotta like one of those. Philip Totaro: Cranberry, I'll take cranberries. Joel Saxum: Cranberries up from northern Wisconsin, right? I grew up next to a cranberry bog. Allen Hall: Alright, this is something everybody can agree upon. Maple syrup. Two cheers for maple syrup. Sure, why not. Joel Saxum: You're from northern New York, Phil! They do maples. There's that syrup country. Sure. But I'm also not 12 years old eating a stack of pancakes anymore. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Hall, and I'll be joined by my Uptime co host. After these news headlines, in a bold move, Spain's Acciona Energy has unveiled plans for a massive 3 gigawatt wind farm in Western Australia. The project, named Bellwether, aims to install 400 turbines, each with a capacity of 6. 2 megawatts. Once operational, it could become the largest onshore wind farm outside of China, significantly boosting Australia's renewable energy capacity. Shifting to technology advancements, Weidmüller USA has introduced BoltControl, an innovative monitoring system for wind turbine blades. This system detects broken bolts in the blade root, potentially preventing costly damage and reducing downtime. The technology promises to enhance safety and efficiency in wind farm operations. In South Korea, Unison has achieved a milestone by developing the country's largest offshore wind turbine. The 10 megawatt direct drive turbine represents a significant leap in Korea's wind energy capabilities. For Unison plans to begin performance tests in October of this year, with commercialization expected by early 2026. GE Vernova has secured five new agreements in Spain, further solidifying its presence in the European wind market. The company will supply a total of 16 turbines for wind farms in Castilla, León, each with a capacity of 6. 1 megawatts. Additionally, GE Vernova will repower a wind farm in Catalonia and supply turbines for a new project in Andalusia. Lastly,

Last month, ITV launched two ads that were created primarily with the use of generative AI.Made for new-to-TV small businesses Travel House and Sheepbridge Interiors, the spots feature AI-generated imagery and were created by augmenting ITV Commercial's normal creative process by using licensed generative-AI image and video tools alongside ITV's in-house voiceover artists.The result received a lot of attention. ITV has billed the project as a way to democratise advertising on TV for small and medium-sized businesses that otherwise would not be able to afford high-quality creative production. But consumers and industry leaders have questioned the effectiveness of the ads and how the creative industry might be impacted by the new technology.Jason Spencer is business development director at ITV and Alan Hall is creative production lead at ITV.Both had a direct hand in the creation of these AI ads. They joined Jack Benjamin to discuss the creative process using AI and why they believe AI tools have a lot to offer for new-to-TV advertisers.Highlights:2:06: Why did ITV begin developing ads using generative AI?4:35: How AI ads could democratise TV advertising10:30: How effective are these ads?16:57: Best practice for using AI to develop creative20:56: AI versus humans23:53: Copyright implicationsRelated articles:The future of TV ads? ITV creates two spots with generative AISmall business, big picture: What ITV's gen-AI play tells us about thinking localStories that mattered this week: Origin launches – now what?---Thanks to our production partners Trisonic for editing this episode.--> Discover how Trisonic can elevate your brand and expand your business by connecting with your ideal audienceVisit The Media Leader for the most authoritative news analysis and comment on what's happening in commercial media. LinkedIn: The Media LeaderYouTube: The Media Leader

Allen and Joel sit down with Jonathan Zalar, Managing Partner at Independent Wind Turbine Generator Consulting (IWTG). With over a decade of experience at GE Renewable Energy, Jonathan shares invaluable insights on recent wind turbine issues, including blade defects, bearing problems, and the challenges of rapid rotor size increases. This is a must-listen episode for a deep exploration of wind turbine maintenance, data analytics, and the importance of thorough inspections in the ever-evolving wind energy industry. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Hall, joined by my co host, Joel Saxon. Today, we're joined by Jonathan Zalar, Managing Partner at Independent Wind Turbine Generator Consulting, or IWTG. With over a decade of experience at GE Renewable Energy, including roles in root cause analysis and systems engineering, Jonathan brings a deep industry knowledge to his consulting work. We'll discuss recent events that we have seen in the field. Explore how his expertise is helping wind turbine owners optimize their assets and tackle some industry challenges. Jonathan, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So you've been around looking at blades and turbines for the last several months. Thanks. Thanks. And we've been in contact a little bit about what you've been seeing. Maybe just give us a brief description of what's happened this summer in terms of blades and turbines. A lot of Jonathan Zalar: customers are starting to realize that there's some, some bigger issues that are coming to a head. And the need to like, look more is becoming more apparent. So, just because you have an external crack and you're about to go repair, it doesn't mean you shouldn't. Maybe take a look inside, especially if it's easy to get to. I have a few customers that are finding, internal cracks and needs to monitor some internal. Issues more and more. So, relying just on drones is maybe not the best thing anymore. Allen Hall: Yeah. Let, let's, let's talk about that because we're seeing a lot of internal cracks. It doesn't, the manufacturer doesn't seem to be important here. It seems to be universal. the crack situation. Operators don't really have tools to go do that themselves besides, and they've been using drone inspections forever. So they, are they interpreting drone inspections external once it looks good on the outside is probably good on the inside. And is that the right Jonathan Zalar: move? In most cases, it probably is, but depending on the type of crack you have and potentially like some history on the particular blades, you might want to start taking a look inside. And I think More, I think as I don't know, the industry keeps going with the blade repairs, they're going to start finding that, some of these might have started on the inside versus the outside. I mean, historically, most of the stuff that's starting on the outside, I mean, you got a lot of, the coding coming off the small stuff that, cat ones that you can steal with later, but as some, so you can cat fours and fives. They started somewhere and if you're not confident it was the outside, spend the extra money, look on the inside. Joel Saxum: So, someone like yourself who's got experience like you, you have experience from GEs, right? So you've been around the block for most all the, the last ten plus years of GE turbines. You,

Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Philip Totaro, and Joel Saxum discuss the evolution of wind turbine blade inspections, from external drones to internal rovers. They debate the potential of AI in predicting damage progression and managing repair priorities, with Rosemary emphasizing the complexity of crack propagation in composites. Joel highlights Top 7's innovative drone technology for detecting lightning protection system faults in blades, as featured in PES Wind magazine. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: On the mean streets of Lowville, New York, Phil that's your neck of the woods. The local Kraft Heinz plant has reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the largest cheesecake. Tipping the scales at a whopping 15, 008 pounds. Yes, that's right. That's seven and a half tons of creamy goodness. Joel Saxum: I absolutely love cheesecake. My brother loves cheesecake so much that's what he had at his wedding. He had a smorgasbord of different kinds of cheesecake that you could pick from. Allen Hall: They broke the record, almost double the record that was held from a team from Russia. So here we go. Now we're back into the 1980s. Olympic hockey Philip Totaro: exit no that's great that's good that's a good thing we should be world domination in cheesecake size Allen Hall: and Philip Totaro: wait. Allen Hall: Yeah why did we get an invite joel i don't understand we should've been top of the list to come to lowville. Philip Totaro: That's yeah that's what i'm saying like did they pass it out to everybody in town like how do you eat a cheesecake seven tons of cheesecake. Allen Hall: They donated to local food bank is what they did after everybody had a slice or two or three. But 15, 000 pounds of cheesecake. What's that in metric tons, Phil? Come on. I need a sense of this for the Europeans in our audience. 6. 8 metric tons. That's a lot of metric tons, but this, these are the things you got to keep your eyes open for, right? So if they're going for a world record. And anything food related, they need to be calling the Uptime Podcast and at least give us a heads up so we can plan our travel accordingly, because this cheesecake thing seems like we missed out. I'm Alan Hall and here are this week's top news stories. In our first story, Vestas has secured its largest onshore wind project to date in Japan. The company has received a 134 megawatt order from Invenergy. for the Inaniwa Wind Energy Center. The order includes 32 V117 4. 2 megawatt wind turbines and a 20 year service agreement. Deliveries are expected to begin in the first half of 2027 with commissioning planned for Q1 2028. Moving to Spain, Windar has started preparatory work to construct a new monopile factory. The facility will have the capacity to manufacture monopiles up to 12. 5 meters in diameter, 3, 500 tons, and 130 meters in length. With an annual capacity of 100 to 120 monopiles, the factory aims to supply wind farms in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, as well as the East Coast of the United States. In a significant development for the Mediterranean region, nine Southern European Union member countries have pledged to turn the area into a renewable energy hub. Officials from Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain are focusing on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy. They aim to set up a joint renewable energies project across borders and ...

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Three men charged in relation to one of New Zealand's most high-profile miscarriages of justice have been excused from their first court appearance on medical grounds. The wrongful conviction of Alan Hall back in 1985 led to the biggest compensation payout in New Zealand's history, and now, nearly 40 years later, three men are facing charges. Reporter Melanie Earley spoke to Lisa Owen.

GE Vernova's CEO, Scott Straszak, announced at a conference that the company is on schedule to lose about $300 million in Q3. It seems the blade failures at Dogger Bank and Vineyard Wind are resulting in a big chunk of these losses. And many European companies have decided to leave Vietnam due to the country's relationship to China. Register to attend AMI's Wind Turbine Blades Boston, October 2nd and 3rd. Enter to win 2 VIP NASCAR pit passes at the Kansas Motor Speedway! 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Philip Totaro: Phil, you were just at RE+ in Anaheim, sunny Anaheim. How'd it go? I was extremely sunny and face meltingly hot on the first couple of days from the heat wave we've had in California. It was like a hundred and three degrees on Monday and then it started cooling off thankfully more recently, but there were, I don't know the official number but they were telling me it was close to 40, 000 attendees. So I've done a few of these events before in at the Anaheim Convention Center, if you're familiar with it. It can hold that capacity, but it was absolutely bursting at the seams. And people absolutely everywhere. I've never seen that so jam packed. The interesting thing about it is there were many different exhibitors there. But the overwhelming majority of them seemed like they were supply chain companies. Which was a little disappointing on my part. I was, I was there to try to talk to project developers and financiers anyway. But the supply chain companies that were there covering the spectrum of both residential and utility scale solar, as well as battery storage technology, really interesting stuff. There's some, they're making great strides in some of the solar module manufacturing and sell. Technology and even some of the packaging and integration is getting pretty slick. Keep in mind, too, that, CAPEX for solar compared to wind is still You know what about 15 to 20 percent lower at this point? Especially in the U. S. market anyway so you're seeing, it's rather substantial amount of interest at this point in solar and hybrid battery storage projects. And everybody that was there, the energy of the event was good. We didn't sadly do an uptime wind energy podcast there. So they're a little light on the the wind energy content that, that the, rebranded solar Power International re, which is now repl, but we hope to be able to address that in the future. Allen Hall: It's a sunny conference for our solar and battery festival, which is really what it is. Makes sense. I just wish when we get to some of our wind conferences, we're in places that are windy. We don't tend to go to places that are windy, like Kansas or Oklahoma. Philip Totaro: I got news for you. It seems like next year we're gonna be in Phoenix Arizona, right? So that, that's gonna be hot and maybe a little miserable, cause I think it's happening in May. Allen Hall: Yeah, we're in a solar hotbed. We should be at a wind site. I know, irony. I'm Alan Hall, and I'll be joined by the rest of the Uptime hosts after these news headlines. The United States is seeing significant growth in offshore wind development. Massachusetts and Rhode Island are moving forward with three offshore wind projects totaling 2. 9 gigawatts. The projects, named South Coast Wind, New England Wind 1, and Vineyard Wind 2, are expected to power approximately 1. 6 million homes.

This week we discuss Vestas' system to determine the quality of wind turbine blades before recycling and Siemens Gamesa's noise reduction idea. Then Crosswind's blade pitching system to increase wake mixing and a seemingly common to patch a hole in the wall. Visit https://www.intelstor.com/ to inquire about their IP Prism services! 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power-Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall and IntelStor's, Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right, Phil, this week, a number of really interesting ideas. This first one comes from Vestas and it is about recycling a wind turbine blades. And it's a, it's sort of a different approach. The quality of the material that they can recycle out of a wind turbine blade is obviously based upon how that blade has been treated or how, what its life looked like ahead of time. So they're The patent idea is to use machine learning to determine the quality of the recycled material up front, so they can process the blades more efficiently. That's an interesting approach. Come on. Vestas, Philip Totaro: obviously, very creative company. And to be able to characterize the, the lifespan of the material prior to trying to take it into the recycling phase. Because the quality of the material that you're recycling may end up impacting the, post recycling usage. So for instance, if you're trying to put it into concrete, you may need a certain grade of, fiber. That, that is something that could, as, as the industry continues to kind of grow with this recycling initiatives. This could come into play in the future, again, I don't know that you necessarily need machine learning to facilitate all this, I think that's a bit of a buzzword y, aspect of the invention, but Joel Saxum: In the grand scheme of things, the way I'm looking at this problem is this, recycling a blade engineer, or blades, hot topic. AI machine learning, hot topic, great way for Vestas to throw these together and boost this thing out for an ESG stamp that says, we're working on this and we're using AI to blah, blah, blah. At the end of the day, you need the bill of materials with what the blade was originally built with, and you need to know whether they got some crazy kind of LEP on it, or different blade coding for de icing or something, and that's it. Allen Hall: The second idea comes from Siemens Gamesa and. It's the, the Bose headset of wind turbine blades. That's the only way I can describe this thing where it's a noise reduction system. It's active noise. So what they do like Bose does is they create an opposite signal. To, to knock, to cancel the, the noise that the blade is making. So they have an actuator that sits on the blade and then it has speakers in it and a little gas chamber to improve its sound ability. And they can do active noise canceling on a blade. Now Phil, what I'm wondering is, it's a, it's a cool idea and it's been used in aircraft for a long time. Is it something that would be used on a Winturn blade? I mean, they only have very, very narrow applications, I would think. Philip Totaro: Here's what's interesting about it, is you're correct that I, I haven't actually seen this in use.

Welcome to Uptime Power-Up, our new show focused on the latest and greatest wind innovations that push the industry forward! This week, Allen and Phil explore FabricAir's system installation tool, Itrec's offshore wind blade lifting method, Beridi Maritime's floating wind structure, and a new way to enjoy your favorite summer treat. To learn about these technologies or inquire about more new tech, contact IntelStor at https://www.intelstor.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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Alan Hall, and Itasaur's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. All right, Fabric Air Canada. Phil, our friends up in Canada have been working on some tools for their game. The icing systems. Philip Totaro: Yes. And what's really interesting and novel about this is they developed a system that allows them to punch holes into some of the bulkheads and ribs along the length of the blade so that they can actually install this. If you're not familiar with fabric air, they have this kind of fabric tube that runs the length of the blade and circulates hot air to be able to de ice the blade. But in order to install it and retrofit it on older blades, you have to have a way that you can drill, drill a hole through some of the bulkheads and the ribs in the blade. And so their, their latest patent that came up in our technology trend watch and research this week indicates that they've, developed a new system that could even be remote operated by a little rover drone that they could send down the length of the blade and have this thing drill out the, the bulkheads. Allen Hall: And that tool can be used for other things besides this de icing system, right? If you're putting holes in blades Allows access for a lot of other things to go up in a blade, right? Philip Totaro: Including repairs on a lightning conduction system for example, or just running any other things that you might need to down the length of the blade. You may need to install some arrow updates that would require some, some work in turn on the internal shell or the inside of the shell of the blade and so this would also facilitate facilitate that, so it's it's pretty clever. Allen Hall: The technology they describe in their patent is focused on Senveon blades, but this could be used on almost any wind turbine blade. Philip Totaro: Oh, absolutely. Yeah. The, the reason that they did that with Senveon is because they actually are working with up in Quebec, which if you're not familiar, the independent research organization that actually has to send beyond turbines at their facility where fabric air through this partnership with with actually tested this this technology. So. It's pretty great. Allen Hall: Next up is Itrec from the Netherlands and they have a offshore blade installation technique or tool that they developed. And it, well, the way I looked at this, it looks like a praying mantis almost that grabs onto the tower and then you take the blade on the back of the praying mantis up to the hub and plug in. Philip Totaro: What's unique and interesting about this innovation is what they're doing is they've created a system where you can actually have this crane structure on the service and operation ves...

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A petition's been handed to Parliament calling for an inquiry into Alan Hall's wrongful conviction. Hall spent 19 years in prison wrongly convicted of murdering Arthur Easton in 1985. He received $5 million and an apology. The petition asks for a Royal Commission Inquiry into the conviction and police investigation. Social Justice Aotearoa CEO Jackie Foster says the conviction was a travesty. "We believe so many questions have not been answered - and no one has been held accountable for what's happened." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's 25 years since London suffered three vicious nail bomb attacks - holdalls filled with 4-inch nails and hand-made explosives planted in Brixton market, Brick Lane and in the bar of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, intended to cause damage to those in the immediate vicinity and to the notion of a tolerant, diverse capital city. The attacks are recorded in photographs shared at the time by the press - of London streets strewn with damaged buildings and injured people, an x-ray of a toddler with a nail embedded in his skull, the wedding photograph of two victims (one killed, the other severely injured) and the police mugshot of the perpetrator, a far right terrorist who hoped to start a 'racial war in this country'.Fragments looks again at these images - some taken by Chris Taylor who happened to be on assignment in Soho's market photographing vegetables - to consider what it means for an instant to be captured and to endure in our memories and understanding of traumatic events.Including contributions from photographer Chris Taylor; Jonathan Cash, who survived the Soho attack, Emdad Talukder, who was injured in Brick Lane and business owner Leo Epstein. Music composed by Alan Hall, with Eleanor McDowall (chimes) and Alan Hall (trumpet)Producer: Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four(Photo credit: ChrisTaylorPhotography.com)

Allen and Joel interview Tone Søndergaard, Director of the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub. The hub's six-month accelerator program provides mentorship, industry connections, and resources to help startups scale. Tone shares insights from the first cohort's outcomes and discusses the global application process for cohort two. If you're interested in learning more, visit https://www.offshorewindnyc.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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the special edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxam. Starting a new business in the wind industry is particularly difficult. Uh, there are multiple challenges beyond creating a product that the industry needs or wants. Fundraising, staffing, finding an office, technology development, marketing, international sales, the list goes on. Well, there is help on the way. The Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, located in Brooklyn, New York, is a groundbreaking initiative launched by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in collaboration with Ecuador, and supported by the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The hub's mission is to accelerate the growth of the offshore wind industry by supporting startups developing cutting edge technologies, by providing access to mentorship, industry connections, and resources to scale up. The hub aims to position New York City as a major player in the rapidly growing Offshore wind sector. Leading this ambitious initiative is Tone Sundegaard, uh, the director of the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub. With a background deeply rooted in the Danish wind industry and expensive experience fostering clean tech collaboration between Denmark and the United States, Tone brings a wealth of expertise and passion to her role in shaping the future of offshore wind innovation in New York City and beyond. Tona, welcome to the program. Tone Søndergaard: Thank you so much. Allen Hall: So there is a lot to talk about today, uh, because Hey, we know a lot of small businesses in wind that are trying to get established. We are one of them Uh, and and uh your offshore wind innovation hub Popped up on our radar screen recently, like, Oh, Hey, there's a lot going on there that we didn't know about. And let's get some, get them on the podcast to talk about all the great activities that are happening there. But I want to first step back and talk about what are some of the problems with starting a small business in wind. Tone Søndergaard: I think one of the reasons we really started this innovation hub and found that there was a need for an accelerator program and ecosystem development for the smaller businesses within offshore wind was partly twofold in a way. The first reason really being that we found that smaller businesses, especially within offshore wind, were challenged by what we call information asymmetry, and it was really difficult for many of the smaller businesses who wanted to either move into offshore wind or pivot into offshore wind from other industries to figure out Precisely what is my value proposition? Precisely when in the supply chain do I fit in? Um, and data in this industry tends to be fairly privileged and sort of like held by some of the really major corporations. Um, so that was really one of the problems that we wanted to try and solve with Innovation Hub was to try and give smaller players access to some of this infor...

“When we worked on Monument together in 1993 (the musicalised documentary that launched BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears), my old friend Ian Gardiner was keen to capture what he called a Singing […]

Alan Hall is a great drummer and composer who has been living in Asheville, NC for the last few years. Alan and I met through Art Lande. Alan and Art have a years long musical and personal association and have played on several recordings together. Art was staying at Alan's home last year when he came to Asheville to perform. I had the good fortune to spend the day with them. In this conversation we cover lots of topics, from ideas about teaching and writing, to the state of the music business, to what it's like trying to become viable as online music biz people. I know you'll enjoy it. Above all, Alan is a great player! I recommend Art Lande's The Silver Fox, Paul McCandless' Shape Shifter, and Bruce Williamson's Standard Transmission. You will find more on his website. Alan Hall I am available for online or in person study. Reach out to me at: keith@keithdavismusic.com Keith Davis Music Check out my new Substack: Bang the Gong: Music and Movement

Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.Infamous during the Greenham Common protests of the 1980s for the recklessness of her activism and her multiple prison sentences (as heard in Lights Out: Greenham Convictions), Lyn Barlow now lives quietly in Somerset. She spends her time making textile art, huge tapestries that document the turbulence of her childhood in care and the struggles of her adulthood - both with the State and herself. Now that her work is on display in Watchet's East Quay gallery, in an exhibition shared with Grayson Perry called Common Thread, Lyn reflects on the textures, the threads and the imagery of her life.Produced by Alan Hall (with music by Alabaster DePlume, licensed courtesy of Domino Publishing Company Limited.) A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

We celebrate CJTR's 2023 Radiothon by taking the Queen City Improvement Bureau out of the subbasement and recording our. meeting before a living-human audience in the Rebellion Taproom in the heart of the Warehouse District. We talk to some of the fine folks who came out to support community radio. On the mic with us, we have CJTR station manager Neil Adams along with QCIB listeners Lauren, Deron Staffen, local legend Jim Elliot, and CJTR board member Alan Hall. And in a special podcast bonus, we run a solo interview Paul had with ward 8 councillor Shanon Zachidniak. Huge thanks to everyone who came out to support CJTR during Radiothon by enduring our meeting. Another huge thanks to Rebellion Brewing and Taphouse for welcoming us and for supporting community radio. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR Regina community radio.

So excited to share this episode with a teacher of mine, Alan Hall. He's been teaching in nearly all settings from middle school jazz camps to Berklee School of Music for over 40 years. You can take lessons with him now online. Book at his website at jazzdrumming.com. He's toured and recorded all over the world with various artists and attended school with other monsters you'll hear about in this episode. If you're in the Asheville area make sure to catch him regularly at Little Jumbo with Jay Sander and Zack Page or his ensemble, The Asheville Jazz Collective. You can also check out the Spotify playlist of artists mentioned during our conversation. Some he mentions, some I mention. They vary from artists that mark the time to personal influences and heroes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JuPF4fB9c0Nrffl1HhgtF?si=758543d6f8d54ff4

Like any good teacher Alan Hall wants to learn what motivates you. I love that he kicked off the ep asking me the question.  Check out my next release for our full conversation. Alan is a jazz monster and regular at Little Jumbo in Asheville where he can be seen with  local heroes, Zack Page and Jay Sanders, every Tuesday night. His compositions can be experienced with The Asheville Jazz Collective that often performs at LJ as well.  Links:https://www.littlejumbobar.com/eventshttps://jazzdrumming.com/The playlist of bands we mention during conversation is available on Spotify. These include artists of the time, influences, and heroes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JuPF4fB9c0Nrffl1HhgtF?si=85ccd34da4bb47cf

It's pay day for Alan Hall, a man wrongly convicted of murder. Almost $5 million and a letter from the government saying he is innocent. The Supreme Court quashed Hall's conviction for a murder during a home invasion nearly 40 years ago, declaring it a serious miscarriage of justice. Alan Hall, who was subsequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, spent 18 years behind bars for the murder of Arthur Easton which he maintained he did not commit. The government appointed retired High Court Judge Rodney Hansen KC to determine whether Alan Hall met the innocence test and should be compensated. It's a yes on both counts. News that had Alan's brother Geoff soaking in the moment.

Alan Hall's lawyer still holds out hope that Arthur Easton's killer will be found. Hall's received five million dollars and an apology after being wrongfully convicted of Easton's murder in 1986. He spent just under 18 years in prison. Nick Chisnall KC told Heather du-Plessis Allan that he has some confidence that Police will conduct a robust investigation, as should have been done in the 1980s. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Exciting wind energy updates this week! Rosemary's away, but GE Vernova is tackling quality issues and refocusing its workforce for onshore projects. Short-term pain, long-term gains? Rhode Island rejects Orsted/Eversource PPA pricing for Revolution Wind 2 - project fate uncertain! Brace for a 9% electricity price hike in New York this August - can offshore wind from Maine save the day? Cost increases halt Vattenfall's British Norfolk Boreas offshore project, raising concerns for others. Will Bill Gates and Richard Branson backed Fervo Energy make geothermal less-expensive? Joel gives a class in drilling holes and making energy. Don't miss our wind farm of the week - Flat Ridge 1! 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 176 Allen Hall: Joel RELA the insurance adjusters based in the uk. Just put out that nice little summary of all the types of damages that wind turbines suffer. It was quite, Fascinating to read through that I didn't realize, you know, gearboxes and some of the other issues are so massive right now. Joel Saxum: Yeah, man. It's, it's really eye-opening to read that report. Martin Dobson, their technical director over there at RELA puts up, he's, they're, they're always putting out great stuff, but the, the really, really interesting one, if you haven't looked at it, it's on the Wind Power Lab, LinkedIn channel but the lightning damages, right? I mean, we're always talking about lightning. So weather guard, lightning tech, of course, lightning. Company and Allen, the, the expertise that you bring to that space. When you read through this, this little article that they put out, this little presentation, you see how many damages are related to Lightning? It's, it's it'll blow your mind. Allen Hall: It's a hundred million dollars. I would just quickly add it up back to the envelope is a hundred million dollars. Like, that's a lot of insurance adjustment to be done. And it, a lot of it's preventable. It's, it's crazy. I know. We, we get requests all the time at Weather Guard here to. Upgrade the Lightning Protection Systems and most wind turbines we can upgrade relatively inexpensively and quickly. So these, this a hundred million dollars of, of insurance money being spread around should be cut in half easily at this point. And, you know, you, you and I, Joel. We have conversations all the time about how we can inform the industry on what can be done, and we finally decided to put together a webinar. Joel Saxum: Yeah, absolutely. So here, coming up in, in August you guys can dial on, we'll of course share it here on the podcast platform and. Through all of our other email platforms as well. But we're gonna have Morton Hamburg, the chief Blade Specialist from Wind Power Lab, and of course, Alan Hall here. We're talking about lightning. So Alan will bring the, bring the physics side and all of his knowledge and, and Morton share the blade side. And we're gonna have put a webinar together, some live q and a and be able to engage directly with the Audience. Yeah.  Allen Hall: So keep your eyes open for that. Morton is gonna add a tremendous amount. So if, if you're not sure what kind of damage you're seeing on your blade, or why are you seeing some weird things happen in your blade, Morton will know, and it's a great opportunity to, to, to pick Morton's brains or to pick my brain about lightning. And it's all gonna be on LinkedIn. Joel Saxum: Yeah. And, and to be honest with you, more importantly, to the listeners out there, we're gonna talk about why, how, what the damages are, what,

Rob's a fan of the "radio art" style of audio storytelling from Europe but often, after listening, he finds himself scratching his head. "What was that about?!" He wonders if the problem isn't the storytelling but his American ears and the way he listens. Alan Hall, of Falling Tree, the English production company, helps him listen in a new way. 

"Nothing to do with us." That was the conclusion of Crown Law staff after "a cursory glance" at new evidence strongly suggesting Alan Hall was innocent. Hall had his conviction for the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton quashed by the Supreme Court last year, after already spending nearly two decades behind bars. Yet an independent report has cleared Crown lawyers of wrongdoing in failing to act five years ago. Ruth Hill reports.

An independent report has cleared Crown Law of any wrongdoing despite it failing to act on evidence of Alan Hall's innocence four years ago. The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton and declared a miscarriage of justice. In 2018, journalist Mike Wesley-Smith provided Crown Law with new information showing a key witness statement was changed. In a heavily redacted report, Nicolette Levy KC, found there was no failure by Crown Law to take appropriate steps to follow up the information, despite him having to wait in jail for another four years before his conviction was overturned. Geoff Hall, brother of Alan Hall, spoke to Guyon Espiner.

The investigation into the Alan Hall miscarriage of justice case has exonerated crown lawyers of any wrong doing. The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton and declared a miscarriage of justice. In 2018, journalist Mike Wesley-Smith provided Crown Law with new information showing a key witness statement was changed. In the heavily redacted report released this morning, Nicolette Levy KC, found there was no failure by Crown lawyers to take appropriate steps to follow up the information, despite him having to wait another four years before his conviction was overturned. But Geoff Hall, brother of Alan Hall, told Morning Report that if Crown Law had been proactive about the new evidence, his brother could have been freed earlier than the 19 years he spent in jail. The Hall family's investigator Tim McKinnel spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

SouthCrest Church Sunday morning message, 4/30/23. Guest speaker Alan Hall leads our journey through the Bible from 1 Samuel 16:1-17:58 by challenging us to know the Truth, to love the Truth and to live in Truth to be a blessing for God's glory.

TUV Nord is employing drones and AI image recognition to inspect hybrid steel/concrete towers during the warranty period. Who will use them, what will they find, and how much will they save? Vineyard Wind will use Charles River Analytics' Awarion system to protect whales and other marine life. The system's algorithms were developed in part using videos taken on whale-watching tours. And in a move to de-risk its business, AEP sold $1.2B of renewables assets; IRG Acquisition Holdings will pick up a capacity of about 1,365MW. Joel explains why he sees more asset flipping in the future. New standards in the US require turbines to be able to operate for at least one hour in extreme weather; the ruling is effective in four years. Everyone agrees it's too little too late, so what's the real solution? Wisconsin's Quilt Block Wind is our Wind Farm of the Week - listen to find out why. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.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 155 Allen Hall: We've reached 100,000 downloads of this podcast. That's a crazy number. That's amazing. That's amazing. And thanks to everybody out there who downloads and listens every week. Our, our faithful listeners have gotten us to that threshold. It's a, it's a huge number and we more and more people listening to uptime every week, and we appreciate everybody doing that. This week's episode lot going on.  Joel Saxum: T u v Nord does some drone inspections of concrete towers. We talked a little bit about what are they looking for, how can they look forward to more efficiently, you know, kind of following bit of our experience in the Blade World. And then also Charles Rivers Analytics. So they've teamed up with Vineyard wind to work w. With some AI machine learning and some sensor packages, sonar on the, in the, in the water. And basically thermal cameras and color cameras on the top side to look for whales and fishing gear and some other things that keep the impact down during offshore wind farm activities in the east coast. Allen Hall: Then we'll talk about AEP selling their renewables business to invent. And FE matches up with NERC to define extreme cold reliability standards to keep the lights on in places like Texas. And our wind Farm of the week is Quilt Block Wind Farm up in Wisconsin. I'm Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxum, and the soon to be guest host, a fully charged live event in Australia, Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Rosemary Barnes: Joel Allen Hall: T UV Nord is using piloted drones to inspect concrete towers of wind turbines. And when I first saw this story, it's probably been a month or so ago, I thought, uhoh new concrete wind turbine towers have problems, and evidently they do, and they're working. With an undisclosed partner, and I assumed at the time that it was Nordex cuz Nordex uses a lot of concrete towers. A, a quick search on Google. Said Nordex has got a couple thousand concrete towers out in service, so they're concerned about having cracks in these towers as the age and get to the end of the warranty period. Right now they're just taking pictures and looking for cracks, but obviously someone's gotta fish through those and determine if there are cracks and if there are, if there are cracks, what they're gonna do about 'em.

SouthCrest Church Sunday morning message, 2/12/23. Guest speaker Alan Hall continues our journey through the Bible from Genesis 50:15-21 reminding us that the things in our lives that were meant for evil, God intends them for good: that God's Grand Story will never be thwarted by the messiness in our lives.

This episode I sat with my friend Robert to discuss the passing of his brother. Check it out!

Joel and Allen discuss Japan's first commercial scale offshore operation. The 33 bottom-fixed Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbines, designed to power 150,000 homes, are locatedin an area of heavy lightning activity. (More on that later!) Some savvy new designs like an automated bolt tightener from IntoMachines and GustoMSC's new "Seahorse" trolley systemshould save a lot of tech time and make offshore blade installation easier and less expensive. Also, Allen and Joel explain how German technology helps submarines avoid wind turbines. Now the question is, who's using it?  Last month, robotics startup Aerones secured almost $39M in funding from undisclosed investors. Isn't it about time? For some timely insight into offshore development and the risks US offshore developers face, don't miss the interview with Henrik Stamer of Naver Energy.  Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Naver Energy - https://www.naverenergy.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 146 [00:00:00] Allen Hall: Well, Joel, it's just you and me on, on New Year's. So we're recording this just before New Year's Eve. Rosemary is off on holiday en enjoying the Australian summertime. Meanwhile, Joel Saxum and I are, are back in front of the hot cameras and microphones recording you a a new Uptime episode and we have a lot on the docket this week. [00:00:20] Allen Hall: Japan is, is starting some commercial offshore operations in the Akita prefecture. It's sort of northwest Japan, where there's a ton of major big lightning strikes in the wintertime. So I'll be, keep my eye on that one. And then IntoMachines has introduced a automated bolt tightener that just runs around and tightens bolts on towers so that you kind of keep, keep technicians time better spent somewhere else. [00:00:49] Joel Saxum: We'll talk about GustoMSC plus NOV plus Lyftra and their new offshore blade installation tech is kind of like a, well, we'll talk about some throwbacks to my younger years of shingle ladders, moving blades up the tower to install them offshore. So we think it could be huge for the Jones Act here in the us. [00:01:08] Joel Saxum: And then we're gonna talk about in German waters some acoustic pingers that they have installed on the foundations of all their offshore wind turbines to make sure that submarines aren't running. . So maybe the Germans are operating a little bit differently than the , than the rest of the world. [00:01:25] Joel Saxum: And then we'll, we'll touch real quickly on Aerones and as well their big 39 million haul that they've made to expand the company and scale it up and grow. So congrats to those guys.  [00:01:38] Allen Hall: And then I have an interview with Henrik Stamer Stamer from Naver Energy on the offshore wind supply chain chAllen Hallges and the effects on operators. [00:01:46] Allen Hall: And that's a really good interview, so stick around for that. I'm Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab. Joel Saxum Saxum. Rosemary is on holiday. And this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. [00:02:19] Allen Hall: Well, Joel Saxum Marubeni has started Commercial Operations at its Noshiro port offshore wind farm in Japan. And actually there's Marubeni has two projects going, one and Noshiro and another one in the Akita port. And so this is really the first sort of commercial scale offsh...

Should OEMs lease equipment? Philip Totaro says the better question is, when will they? The idea may be more attractive to OEMs than it first appears. Crane safety is always important, and new concepts in crane systems should be more efficient and economical, as well as safer. The Uptime crew discusses some of the new designs and RWE's recent investment in WindSpider. In parts of Europe, the average age of a wind turbine is 15 years old, so it's time to talk about repowering - and how to fund it. NREL will award $2.9M to manufacturers of small- and medium-scale wind turbine technology. Meanwhile, NASA is starting to think about wind turbines on Mars. Sure, there are some engineering challenges, but if we can grow potatoes on the red planet, we can do anything. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com WindSpider - https://windspider.com Small and Medium US Wind Turbine Companies: Bergey Windpower Company - https://www.bergey.com Carter Wind Turbines - https://carterwind.com Eocycle America Corporation - https://eocycle.com Pecos Wind Power - https://pecoswindpower.com Primus Wind Power - https://www.primuswindpower.com RRD Engineering - https://rrdengineering.com Sonsight Wind - http://www.sonsightwind.com Windurance LLC - https://www.windurance.com Windward Engineering - http://windwardengineering.com Xflow Energy Company - https://www.xflowenergy.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 145 Allen Hall: Well, as we record this episode, and it is just before Christmas, so as you listen to this, it's just after Christmas, so I hope everybody had a, had a good holiday, an enjoyable Christmas time. In Australia, evidently they don't have snow, so as, and Joel is in someplace where they don't have snow either, but they're trying to have snow.   Joel Saxum: We have 22 degrees .  Allen Hall: That's what they're saying. We up here in the, in the Hardy Northeast will have plenty of snow, it looks like for Christmas. So we'll have a white Christmas. That'll be very enjoyable. And this week we're talking about a number of subjects and the the top one is Phil Totaro comes back on from Interstor of course. And he had an interesting discussion about wind turbine leasing. Does it make sense for OEMs to lease their wind turbines instead of selling them to make the economics work better for the operators? Joel Saxum:  And we'll talk about WindSpider, which is a climbing crane or climbing ish crane that RWE investing in to help some of their offshore operations. And we'll see, is it gonna be better for offshore construction? Can it help some onshore construction? We'll see what happens there. And then as well jumping over to the us en re and taking some federal funds and investing into some of these small to medium size wind turbine companies. So Rosemary gives us some tips on where their, where these small wind turbines are useful and. where they absolutely are not. And  Rosemary Barnes: then we move on to Repowering In Europe, they have a lot of wind turbines that are 15 or even 20 years old. So Repowering is gonna be a big thing in the next few years. And finally, we talk about wind turbines on Mars and yeah, what design changes they would need to make to get them working there and whether that's gonna help us here on earth. Allen Hall: I'm Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech,

A report into the actions or inactions of crown prosecutors that led to the 1985 wrongful conviction of Alan Hall has been referred to police by the Solicitor General. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction in June after Hall spent nearly two decades in jail for the murder of Arthur Easton. The report by Nicolette Levy KC had not been released but had been seen by the the Hall family. In a statement, the family said it was gruelling to see some details regarding what was alleged to have occured, but they were comforted that the truth was finally starting to emerge. University of Auckland law professor Mark Henaghan spoke with Susie Ferguson.