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Allen, Joel, and Yolanda recap the UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight in Edinburgh and Great British Energy’s £1 billion manufacturing push. Plus Ørsted’s European onshore wind sale, Xocean’s unmanned survey tech at Moray West, and why small suppliers must scale or risk being left behind. 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! You are 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 host. Allen Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host Allen Hall in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Queen City. I have Yolanda Pone and Joel Saxon back in Austin, Texas. Rosemary Barnes is taking the week off. We just got back from Scotland, Joel and I did, and we had a really great experience at the UK offshore wind supply chain spotlight 2025 in Edinburgh, where we met with a number of wind energy suppliers and technology advocates. A Joel Saxum: lot going on there, Joel. Yeah. One of the really cool things I enjoyed about that, um, get together the innovation spotlight. [00:01:00] One, the way they had it set up kind of an exhibition space, but not really an exhibition. It was like just a place to gather and everybody kind of had their own stand, but it was more how can we facilitate this conversation And then in the same spot, kind of like we’ve seen in other conferences, the speaking slots. So you could be kind of one in ear, oh one in year here, listening to all the great things that they’re doing. But having those technical conversations. And I guess the second thing I wanted to share was. Thank you to all of the, the UK companies, right? So the, all the Scottish people that we met over there, all the people from, from England and, and around, uh, the whole island there, everybody was very, very open and wanting to have conversations and wanting to share their technology, their solutions. Um, how they’re helping the industry or, or what other people can do to collaborate with them to help the industry. That’s what a lot of this, uh, spotlight was about. So from our, our seat, um, that’s something that we, you know, of course with the podcast, we’re always trying to share collaboration, kind of breed success for everybody. So kudos to the ORE [00:02:00] Catapult for putting that event on. Allen Hall: Yeah, a big thing. So, or Catapult, it was a great event. I’ve met a lot of people that I’ve only known through LinkedIn, so it’s good to see them face to face and. Something that we’ve had on the podcast. So we did a number of podcast recordings while we’re there. They’ll be coming out over the next several weeks, so stay tuned for it. You know, one of the main topics at that event in Edinburg was the great British Energy announcement. This is huge, Joel. Uh, so, you know, you know, the United Kingdoms has been really pushing offshore wind ambitions for years, but they don’t have a lot of manufacturing in country. Well, that’s all about the change. Uh, great British energy. Which is a government backed energy company just unveiled a 1 billion pound program called Energy Engineered in the uk, and their mission is pretty straightforward. Build it in the uk, employ people in the uk, and keep the economic benefits of the clean energy transition on British soil. 300 million pounds of that is really [00:03:00] going to be focused on supply chain immediately. That can happen in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. It’s a big promotion for the UK on the wind energy side. I see good things coming out of this. What were your thoughts when you heard that Joel Saxum: announcement, Joel? The offshore wind play. Right. It’s like something like this doesn’t happen to economies very often. Right. It’s not very often that we have like this just new industry that pops outta nowhere. Right. We’re, we’re not making, you know, it’s like when, when. Automotive industry popped up in the, you know, the early 19 hundreds. Like that was this crazy new thing. It’s an industrial revolution. It’s all this new opportunity. So offshore wind in, in my idea, same kind of play, right? It’s this new thing or newer thing. Um, and as a government, um, coming together to say, Hey, this is happening. We have the resources here. We’re gonna be deploying these things here. Why would we not take advantage of building this here? I mean. Any politician that says I’m bringing jobs or I’m bringing in, you [00:04:00] know, um, bringing in funds to be able to prop up an industry or to, uh, you know, start a manufacturing facility here or support an engineering department here, um, to be able to take advantage of something like this. Absolutely right. Why offshore this stuff when you can do it Here, you’ve got the people, you have the engineering expertise. It’s your coastline. You’ve operated offshore. You know how to build them, operate ’em, all of these different things. Keep as much of that in-house as you can. I, I mean, we’ve, we’ve watched it in the US over the last few years. Kind of try to prop up a supply chain here as well. But, you know, with regulations and everything changing, it’s too risky to invest. What the, it looks like what the UK has seen over there is, well, we might as well invest here. We’ll throw the money at it. Let’s, let’s make it happen on our shores. The Allen Hall: comparison’s obvious to the IRA Bill Yolanda and the IRA bill came out, what, A little over two years ago, three years ago, roughly. We didn’t see a lot of activity [00:05:00] on the manufacturing side of building new factories to do wind. In fact, there was a lot of talk about it initially and then it. It really died down within probably a year or so. Uh, you know, obviously it’s not a universal statement. There were some industries model piles and some steelworks and that kind of thing that would would happen. But sometimes these exercises are a little treacherous and hard to walk down. What’s your thoughts on the UK government stepping in and really. Putting their money where the mouth is. Yolanda Padron: I think it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s great, right? It’s great for the industry. It’ll, it’ll be a great case, I think, for us to look at just moving forward and to, like you said, government’s putting their money where their mouth is and what exactly that means. You know, not something where it’s a short term promise and then things get stalled, or corporations start looking [00:06:00] elsewhere. If every player works the way that they’re, it’s looking like they’re going to play right now, then it, it could be a really good thing for the industry. Allen Hall: Well, the, the United States always did it in a complicated way through tax policy, which means it runs through the IRS. So any bill that passes Congress and gets signed by the president, they like to run through the IRS, and then they make the tax regulations, which takes six months to 12 months, and then when they come out, need a tax attorney to tell you what is actually written and what it means. Joel, when we went through the IRA bill, we went through it a couple of times actually, and we were looking for those great investments in new technology companies. I just remember seeing it. That isn’t part of the issue, the complexity, and maybe that’s where GB Energy is trying to do something different where there’s trying to simplify the process. Joel Saxum: Yeah. The complexity of the problem over here is like that. With any. Business type stuff, right? Even when you get to the stage of, um, oh, this is a write off, this is this [00:07:00] for small businesses and those things, so it’s like a delayed benefit. You gotta plan for this thing. Or there’s a tax credit here, there. Even when we had the, um, the electric vehicle tax credits for, uh, individuals, right? That wasn’t not something you got right away. It was something you had to apply for and that was like later on and like could be. 15 months from now before you see anything of it. And so it’s all kind of like a difficult muddy water thing in the i a bill. You’re a hundred percent correct. Right. Then we passed that thing. We didn’t have the, the rules locked down for like two years. Right. And I remember we had, we had a couple experts on the podcast talking about that, and it was like, oh, the 45 x and the 45 y and the, the C this and the be that, and it was like. You needed to have a degree in this thing to figure it out, whereas the, what it sounds like to me, right, and I’m not on the inside of this policy, I dunno exactly how it’s getting executed. What it sounds like to me is this is more grant based or, and or loan program based. So it’s kinda like, hey, apply and we’ll give you the money, or we’ll fund a loan that supports some money of with low interest, zero [00:08:00] interest, whatever that may be. Um, that seems like a more direct way, one to measure ROI. Right, and or to get things done. Just just to get things done. Right. If someone said, Hey, hey, weather guard, lightning Tech. We have a grant here. We’d like to give you a hundred grand to do this. Or it was like, yeah, if you put this much effort in and then next year tax season you might see this and this and this. It’s like, I don’t have time to deal with that. Yolanda Padron: Yeah. We might also just change the rules on you a little bit, and then maybe down the line we’ll see where we go. Yeah. It does seem like they’re, they’re setting up the dominoes to fall in place a bit better. This way. Yeah, absolutely. Joel Saxum: That’s a, that’s a great way to put it, Yolanda. Let’s setting up the dominoes to fall in place. So it’s kinda like, Hey. These are the things we want to get done. This is what we wanna do as an industry. Here’s a pool of money for it, and here’s how you get access to it. Allen Hall: A lot’s gonna change. I remember, was it a couple of months ago, maybe, maybe a year ago, time flies guys. Uh, we were just talking about. That on the way home from [00:09:00]Scotland, like how many people have had in the podcast? It’s a lot over 60 have been on the podcast as guests. Uh, one of the people we want to have on is, uh, Dan McGrail, who’s the CEO of Great British Energy because, uh, we had talked about with Rosemary the possibility of building turbines all in. The uk, they have blade factories. All this stuff is doable, right? They have technology. This is not complicated work. It just needs to be set up and run. And maybe this is the goal is to just run, it may maybe not be OEM focused. I I, that’s what I’m trying to sort through right now as, is it vestas focused? Is it GE focused? Is it Siemens Keesa focused? Is there a focus or will these turbines have GB energy? Stamped on the side of them. I would Joel Saxum: see love to see support for sub-component suppliers. Yeah, I would too. Yeah. The reason being is, is like that’s, that’s more near and dear to my heart. That’s what [00:10:00] I’ve done in my career, is been a part of a lot of different, smaller businesses that are really making a difference by putting in, you know, great engineering comes from small businesses. That’s one of my, my things that I’ve always seen. It seems to be easier to get things done. In a different way with a small business than it does to engineering by committee with 50 people on a team faster, sometimes better. Uh, that’s just my experience, right? So I would like to see these smaller businesses propped up, because again, we need the OEMs. Yes, absolutely. But also spread it around, right? Spread the wealth a little bit. Uh, you know, a, a factory here, a factory there, a engineering facility here. The, uh, you know, an execution plant here. Some things like that. I would love to see more of these kind of, uh, spread around like the, like GB energy’s money spreads around, like fairy dust. Just kind of plant a little here, plant a little in this city, make a little here, instead of just lumping it to one or lumping it into one big, um, OEM. And that doesn’t necessarily [00:11:00] have to be an OEM, right? It could be a blade manufacturer that I’m talking about, or. Or a big, big gearbox thing or something like that. We need those things, and I, I’m all for support for them, but I just don’t think that all of its support should go to them. Speaker 7: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Poolman on the park for Wind Energy o and M Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at W OM a 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and m Australia is created by Wind Professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches. Allen Hall: If you haven’t booked your tickets to Wind Energy o and m Australia 2026, you need to be doing [00:12:00] that. Today, uh, the event is on February 17th and 18th in Melbourne, Australia. Uh, we’ll have experts from around the world talking everything o and m, and there’s so many good people are gonna be on the agenda, Joel, and a lot of big companies sponsoring this Joel Saxum: year. Allen Hall: You want to give us a highlight? Joel Saxum: Yeah, so like you said, Alan, we have a ton of sponsors going to be there and, and I’d like to say the sponsors. Thank you ahead of time. Of course. Right. We’re, we’re, we’re super excited for them to get involved because as we’ve put this event together. We’re trying to do this no sales pitches, right? So we wanna do this, not pay to play. We want people here that are going to actually share and learn from each other. And the sponsors have been kind enough to get on board with that message and follow through with it. So, like our lead industry sponsor Tilt, uh, Brandon, the team over there, fantastic. Um, they have, they’re, they’re the, their key sponsor here and they’re supporting a lot of this. So the money’s going to applying in experts from all over the [00:13:00] world, putting this thing together. Uh, so we have an, uh. A forum to be able to talk at, uh, C-I-C-N-D-T. From here in the States, uh, we’ve got Palisades, who’s another operator in the, uh, Australian market, uh, rig com. ISP over there doing blade work and it just keeps rolling down. We’ve got squadron on board, squadron’s gonna do one of the coffee carts. Um, so I know that we’ve got a limited bit of tickets left. I think we are 250 in the venue and that’s what the plan is. I think we’re sitting at about half of that leftover. Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s getting close to running out. And I know in Australia everybody likes to purchase their tickets at the last minute. That’s great. And but you don’t wanna miss out because there is limited seating to this event. And you wanna go to WMA w om a 2020 six.com. Look at all the activities. Book some tickets. Plan to book your travel if you’re traveling from the United States or elsewhere. You need a couple of weeks [00:14:00]hopefully to do that ’cause that’s when the airline prices are lower. If you can book a a couple of weeks ahead of time. So now’s the time to go on Woma 2020 six.com. Check out the conference, get your tickets purchased, start buying your airline tickets, and get in your hotel arranged. Now’s the time to do that. Well, as you know, war has been selling off pieces of itself after setbacks in the America market. Uh, sounds like two heavyweight bidders are looking for one of those pieces. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and ENG G are allegedly competing for Seds European. Onshore Wind business, a portfolio valued at roughly 1 billion euros. Supposedly the bids are gonna be due this week, although nothing is certain in a billion dollar deals. This is a little bit odd. I understand why Stead is doing it, because they’re, they’re trying to fundraise, but if they do this. They will be essentially European offshore wind only [00:15:00] with some American onshore and a little bit American offshore. Not much. Uh, that will be their future. Are they gonna stay with America one onshore or, and American offshore? Is that a thing? Or they just could, could be all European offshore wind. Is that where Osted is headed? It’s a complicated mix because, you know, they’re, they’re, they’ve negotiated a couple of other deals. Most recently to raise cash. They’re supposedly selling, uh, another set of wind farms. I dunno how official that is, but it’s, it seems like there’s some news stories percolating up out there trying to raise more cash by selling large percentages of offshore wind farms. Where does Joel Saxum: this all end? I don’t know. The interesting thing is like if you looked at Ted, uh, man, two years ago, like if you Googled anything or used a jet, GPT or whatever it was like, gimme the. Three largest wind operators in the world. They were the top three all the time. Right. And, and most valuable. At one point in time, they were worth like, [00:16:00] uh, I don’t wanna say the wrong number, but I, I thought, I thought 25 billion or something like that. They were worth. ATS at one point in time. Market share. Allen Hall: Yeah, Joel Saxum: I think that seems right. So like they, they were huge and it just seems like, yeah, they’re trying to survive, but in survival mode, they’ve just kind, they’re just dwindling themselves down to being just o just a small offshore company. And, or not small, but a small, just a, just a siloed offshore company. A large offshore company. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, like, even just, there was, there’s another article, um. Today we’re, we’re talking here, CIP and Engie looking to buy their European onshore business. They’ve also are putting up like, uh, was it greater Ang of four in Taiwan for, for sale as well. So, I mean, like you said, where does it stop? I don’t know. Um, CIP is an interesting play. Uh, an Eng, CIP and Engie kind of battling this one out ’cause the CIP management team is a bunch of ex or said people, so they know that play very well. Um, ENGIE of course, being a big French [00:17:00] utility. So that one will sell, right? They’re, their European offshore or onshore assets will be gone shortly. Uh, they’ll be sitting with a bunch of offshore assets that they own and partially own around the world. Uh, and of course their, their, I think their US onshore fleet is about a gigawatt, maybe a and a half. Um, that could be the next domino to fall. You don’t, I, sorry, Yolanda, I used your, your, your, uh, euphemism from before, but, um. That they’re actively parting ways with some stuff. I don’t know when it stops. Allen Hall: It is odd, right? EOR has basically stopped a lot of renewables. Stat Craft has pulled back quite a bit. Another Norwegian company. A lot of the nor Northern European companies are slowing down in wind altogether, trying to stick to onshore for the most part. Offshore will still be developed, but just not at the pace that it needed to be developed. There is a lot of money moving around. Billions [00:18:00] and billions of, of euros and dollars moving. And I guess my, my thought is, I’m not sure from a market standpoint where Orid is headed, or even Ecuador for that matter, besides maybe moving back into oil and gas. They never really left it. The direction of the company is a little unknown because these, uh, news articles about sales. Are not really prefaced, right? It’s just like, all right, Taiwan, we’re selling more than 50% of the projects in Taiwan. We’re out, we’re selling European onshore pow, which there’d been some rumors about that, that I had heard, but nothing was really locked in, obviously, until you really start seeing some reliable news sources. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is an interesting play just because it kind of keeps it. Up in Denmark and not in France with Engie. That’s what I’m, in my [00:19:00] head. I’m thinking Sted is not likely to sell it to Engie just because they’re French. This is a national, uh, security issue for Denmark Sted. Is it, I I how Engie is involved in this maybe to help set a, a baseline of what the valuation is so that CIP can then purchase it. Do you see CIP losing this, Joel? Joel Saxum: No, I don’t think so. I think, yeah, I think CCIP has to land with this one and, and CI P’s been building a portfolio quietly, building a, not, I guess not quietly, they’ve been building a portfolio for the last few years. It’s pretty stout, uh, pretty fairly sizable. Right? And it, it’s an interesting play watching this for me because you, you see all these people kind of rotating out. And it, and it has to do with the, the, in my opinion, it has to do with the macroeconomics of things, right? Once, when you develop something and you get through, like in, into the teething pain cycle and all that kind of stuff. [00:20:00] The asset is not designed to have a 50, 70%, you know, margin, right? That’s not how wind works. Wind, wind operates of small margins and a lot of times in the early, a early stages of a project, you end up running into issues that eat those margins away. So when you’re talking about small margins, they’re six to 10% is what you kind of see. Um, and it’s pretty easy to eat away a 6% or a 10% margin. If you have some kind of serial defect you have to deal with, uh, or that, that the OEM’s fighting you on and, and you know, whether or not they take responsibility for it or you have to pay for it. A lot of times those processes can drag out for 12, 24, 36 months until you get made whole. So the early state, the first, you know, five years of a lot of these projects, five to eight years, are very expensive. And then once you get through kind of those things and the thing starts just chugging. Then you actually are starting to make money, and that’s where CIP P’S buying these assets is in that years after it’s gone through its teething pains and the company that developed it is like, man, [00:21:00] we need to get outta this thing. We’ve just been burning through cash. Then CI P’s kinda swooping in and grabbing ’em. And I think that this is another one of those plays. Allen Hall: So they’re gonna live with a smaller margin or they’re gonna operate the assets differently. Joel Saxum: The assets may be being operated better now than they were when they started, just in that, in, they exist, the starting company simply because the, some of the issues have been solved. They’ve been sorted through the things where you have early, early failures of bearings or some stuff like the early fairings of gearboxes. Those things have been sorted out, so then CIP swoops in and grabs them after the, the teething issues that have been gone. Allen Hall: Does evaluation change greatly because of the way horse did, manages their assets? Up or down? Joel Saxum: I would say generally it would go up. Yeah. I don’t necessarily think it’s dependent on o and m right now. I think it’s just a, it’s a time to buy cheap assets, right? Like you see, you see over here in the States, you see a lot of acquisitions going on. People divesting, they’re not divesting because they’re like, oh, we’re gonna make a ton of money off this. They may need the cash. They’re [00:22:00] divesting in, in, um, what’s the term, like under duress? A lot of them, it may not look like it from the outside in a big way, but that’s kind of what’s happening. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I think it’ll be really interesting to see, uh, you know, there were a lot of layoffs in Ted and Europe as well, so seeing if maybe some of the people who can make those assets perform better. Come back just with a different t-shirt on. Allen Hall: As wind energy professionals staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it difficult. That’s why the Uptime podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new to wind, PES wind has the high quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit PES wind.com today in this quarter’s, PES Wind Magazine, which you can download a copy at PES [00:23:00] wind.com. There’s an article by Xan and they were, uh, contracted by Ocean Winds to evaluate the sea floor from. The sea floor at Moray West, which is way, way, way up north on the northern end of Scotland. A pretty rough area, Joel. And, but what ex Ocean did was they used unmanned survey equipment to monitor the ocean floor where the mono piles were gonna replace for the Moey West Wind Farm. That is a really difficult area to operate any sort of boat, but. Uh, the reason we’re doing this remotely unmanned was that it, it gave them sort of a, a less costly way to get high resolution images of the sea bottom. This is interesting because ocean wind was developing more a West apparently hadn’t used anything like this before, but the results, at [00:24:00] least from what I can see in PS win, look Joel Saxum: great. Yeah. This is a technology that’s been, um. Man, it’s been under development by a lot of companies in the last six, eight years. And now it’s starting to get to the point where it is, I mean, we’re, we’re TRL nine plus, right? There’s a lot of these solutions out there that are commercially ready. Xans been a top of this list since, man, since I was playing in that oil and gas world, to be honest with you. Like 20 18, 20 17, uh, really cool looking boats. That’s besides the point. Uh, but when they show up at trade shows and stuff with ’em, you’re like, ah, oh, that thing’s neat looking. Um, but it, it, it, it solves all kinds of problems, right? So when you go offshore and you’re just gonna do, say you’re just gonna go out there and do multibeam, so you’re just gonna do echo sound where you’re just looking to see depths and what’s on the sea floor. The minimum kind of vessel you need for that is 10 to 15 meters long. You need probably two to six people on that vessel. And that’s just, if you’re going out doing shift work, if you’re staying out there [00:25:00] and working 24 7, that vessel grows to. 30 meters instantly, right? So now you’re burning thousands and thousands of dollars in fuel. You’ve got food on board. You got all, it’s just a pain to put this vessel out there. You take all of those people out of harm’s way. You take all the costs away and they, and you put two of them, or one or two of them on shore in a facility, and then you put this three meter vessel out there that’s fully autonomous. No people, but collects the same style of data. I mean, it’s a no brainer, right? So you’re getting the same style of data and if, and the thing’s working 24 7, there is no need to have someone sleep. There’s a not a technician issue. There’s not, none of this is, is a problem anymore. Nobody’s getting seasick, right? So you’re sitting, you’re, you’re sitting back on shore, uh, going to work, uh, with no PPE on, um, having a, having a coffee from Starbucks down the street. And you’re running this thing 24 7, you’re collecting all [00:26:00] that fantastic data. Uh, it is just, like I said, it’s a no brainer. Now, now they’re getting to the stage where they’re putting ’em out as swarms, so you can cover whole fields. You’re doing live cable inspections. It’s, it’s pretty fantastic. So Exo ocean’s really making the next generation of robotics o offshore. Allen Hall: Yeah. And that’s gonna drive down the cost of energy. These kind of developments make huge strides in lowering costs, and this is why you need to read PES Win Magazine. So there’s a. Great articles all throughout the magazine. This quarter’s issue is, is Heavy with articles. Get your free copy@pswin.com today. As you know, in the wind industry, survival has always belonged to those who can keep up, uh, and Sorn freeze. Nuon knows better than most with his decades of experience at LM Wind Power and Uzon. He now chairs two Danish subcontractors, Polytech and Jupiter. Bach. Uh, his message to smaller suppliers in, in a recent article is. Pretty blunt. It [00:27:00]says the manufacturers, big OEMs want fewer partners and larger partners who can take on more responsibility. And if you cannot invest and grow with those manufacturers, you’ll be left behind the winners. It says it will be those who stay close to the turbine makers and adapt as the industry evolves. Joel, this is a really interesting discussion that, uh, Soren put out there. Obviously he’s invested in Polytech and Jupiter, Bach, uh, to great suppliers obviously, but small businesses are where a lot of the key technologies have been driven over the last five, six years. In wind, or more broadly the last 20 years in wind, a lot of great technology has come out of places that you wouldn’t have thought of. The OEMs have not been the bastion of innovation. I would say it [00:28:00] is necessary. You have both, wouldn’t you think? You have to have the small business innovation to prove out ideas and to show that they work, but you also have to have the large manufacturers to implement those ideas more broadly without either one of them, nobody wins. Joel Saxum: I fully agree and I think that one of the things that’s a little bit, uh, more of a granular comment there is. I think sometimes you need the OEMs and the other suppliers within the supply chain to open their doors a little bit, right? So this is, this is me wearing my, my small business, small innovative business, uh, in the wind industry cap. And that is, man, sometimes it is hard to get a conversation with a large subsupplier or with an OEM when you have something that can help them. And they just don’t want to communicate, don’t want to help. It’s just our way or the highway kind of thing. And if you watch, like we, so the podcast gives us an kind of, or not [00:29:00] gives us, it forces us to have kind of an op, an opportunity to look at, you know, what are the, what are the financial statements of some of these OEMs? What are the financial statements of some of their large sub-suppliers? You know? ’cause if they’re located in countries where that stuff is public knowledge, you can see how and what they’re doing. And if you, if you look at business in a general way where you rely on one customer or two customers to, for your whole business, you’re gonna be hurting. Um, especially in the way we look at things or what we’re seeing in the wind industry right now is if you’re, if you are a large company to say you do a hundred million in revenue and your customers are ge Vestas. Depending on what happens regulatory wise, in some random country somewhere your a hundred million dollars could shrink to 50 real quick. Um, so I don’t think that that’s a great way to do business. I think, you know, having a bit of diversification probably helps you a little bit. The OEMs Allen Hall: have a particular job to do. They need to deliver turbines onsite on time and create power for their customer. That’s our main [00:30:00] focus. They are a generator. Driven company, they make generators on steel towers with a propeller system basically. Right. Just simplify it way, way down. There’s not a lot of technology in that itself. Obviously there’s control systems, obviously there’s electronics involved, but the concept from this basic fundamentals is not difficult to to grasp. The difficulty is in execution. Showing that that product can last for 20 years, and that product can last in different environments. Australia, United States, up in Scandinavia, Canada, way down south and Brazil. There’s some really rough environments there and the OEMs are relying upon in industry, uh, guidance from like the IECs and then the dvs, uh, uls Tube. Nord. Uh. Bvs where they’re trying to make these turbines comply to a [00:31:00] set of essentially regulations, which just simplify it. You can do that. But as we have seen historically in the wind industry, if you make a turbine that just meets those requirements, you do not necessarily have a successful product. You have a product that is marginal, and as Yolanda has pointed out to me numerous times, there’s a lot of real issues in wind turbines. That probably could have been solved five years ago by small mobile companies with outside of the box ideas that could have given the OEMs a huge advantage, especially in blades. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, and I think a lot of these companies are, they’re looking at things from a different point of view, right? They’re smaller companies. You have people who could know the product, they know the real issue that’s going on on the ground. They know. Kind of what they need to do, what the next step is to move forward in their solution.[00:32:00] Right? But it’s not like it’s a, a company where you need 30 people to sign off before you can go onto the next stage, and then you need 30 more people to sign off before you can get funding to do something else. And so yes, the OEMs are doing a good job in their scope. If they’re meeting their scope, they are doing a good job. You know, if I, if I take like bread and cheese, then yes, I have a sandwich, right? Like, it might not be the best sandwich in the world, but I have a sandwich. So like, they’re making the sandwich and that’s great. But if you want something to, to actually work and to last and to, to give everybody else the, the idea that. You know, wind is profitable and we can all benefit from it. You have to get all those different layers in there, right? You have to make [00:33:00] sure that you know, if you have a big lightning issue, then you get the right people in the room to get that retrofit in there to solve your lightning issue. If you have a big leading edge erosion issue, then you get those right people in the room to solve everything, and it’s not always going to be a one size fits all. Right, but you do need those smaller companies to, to be in the room with you. Joel Saxum: I’m a hundred percent agreeing with you, Yolanda, and I think that this is the issue here is that at some level then an OEM, an OEM engineering head would have to admit that they’re not the end all be all, and that they may have got a couple of things wrong. And what, what I would love to see and who, and maybe maybe ask you this question, who of the major four Western OEMs. Do you think would be open to like an industry advisory board? Nordex, you think it’s Nordex? I think Yolanda Padron: that’s the closest one so far that we’ve seen. Right? Joel Saxum: Yeah. I, I, I agree with you, and I’m saying that because I don’t think any of the other ones would ever admit that they have an [00:34:00] issue, right? They have attorneys and they have problems, Allen Hall: so they really can’t, but I, I think internally they know that they haven’t optimized their production, they haven’t optimized their performance out in the field. They’re trying to improve availability, that’s for sure. Estes has spent a great deal of time over the last year or two improving availability so that the money is being spent. The question is, do they have all the right answers or the overspending to get to the availability that they want to deliver to their customers? That’s a great question because I do think that we we’re just in Scotland and there’s a number of technology companies in the UK that I think, wow, they should be implementing some of these. Ideas and these products that have been proven, especially the ones that have been out for a couple of years, they should be implemented tomorrow, but they’re not yet because they can’t get through the door of an OEM because the OEM doesn’t want to hear it. Joel Saxum: Yeah, agreed. Agreed. Right. Well, well, like I, the, the, the example that keeps popping into my mind is Pete Andrews and the team over [00:35:00] at Echo Bolt, simply because they have a solution that works. It’s simple. They’ve done the legwork to make sure that this thing can be optimized and utilized by technicians in the field around the world. But they, it just like, they haven’t gotten the buy-in from, from whoever, uh, that it seems to be, you know, there’s a hurdle here. Uh, and that hurdle may be the Atlantic Ocean. I don’t know. Uh, but I would love to see, I would love to see their, uh, solution for bolted connections, uh, and monitoring bolted connections kicked around the world because I think you could save. Uh, the wind industry a ton, a ton, a ton of money. And that is an example of a small business full of subject matter experts that made a solution that can solve a problem, whether you’re an OEM or you’re an operator or whatever. There’s there that’s there, utilize them, right? Those are the kind of things that we need in this industry. Yolanda Padron: And it’s also those smaller companies too that will look at your feedback and then they’ll say, oh. Okay, do I need to adjust here? [00:36:00] Did I not focus on this one parameter that your specific site has? Right. And you don’t see that from the OEMs ’cause they have so, uh, they have so many problems that they’re trying to tackle at once that it gets really difficult to, not just to hone in on one, but to, to tell everybody, oh, I, I have this perfect solution for everything. Here you go. Allen Hall: Right. I think there’s an internal conflict in the engineering departments and manufacturing departments of any OEM, regardless if it’s in wind or in any other industry, is that they have a system to make this product and they’re pretty confident in it, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it. They don’t want to hear outside noise is I, I would describe it as noise. Like, uh, if you have a great solution that would help out their manufacturing process. But I work here, I know how, I know the ins and outs that that new idea by a small company won’t work here. Those [00:37:00] barriers have to be knocked down internally in the OEMs. The OEM management should be going through and saying, Hey, look, if I find me the manager of this operation, if I find a company that could help us and save us money, and you’re being a roadblock, guess what? See ya. Hit the road because there is no way you can let those opportunities pass you by. In today’s marketplace, you need to be grabbing hold of every opportunity to lower your cost, to improve your product availability, to improve your relationship with your customers. How do you do that? Quickly, you look at the companies that are providing solutions and you grab them, grab them, and hold on for your life and listen to what they have to say because they have probably done more research into your product than your people have. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. 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Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss a German study finding 99.8% of birds avoid wind turbines, challenging long-standing collision risk models. They also cover Pattern Energy’s SunZia project nearing completion as the Western Hemisphere’s largest renewable project, lightning monitoring strategies for large-scale wind farms, and offshore flange alignment technology. Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia 2026!Learn more about CICNDTDownload the latest issue of 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! You are 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 host. Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host Alan Hall in the queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina, where a cold front is just blown through, but we’re not nearly as cold as Joel was up in Wisconsin, Joel, you had a bunch of snow, which is really the first big storm of the season. Joel Saxum: Yeah, the crazy thing here was the Wind Energy Podcast. So since that storm I, we, we got up in northern Wisconsin, 18 inches of snow, and then we drove down on last Saturday after US Thanksgiving through Iowa, there’s another 18 inches of snow in Des Moines. I talked to a more than one operator that had icing and snow issues at their wind farms all through the northern Midwest of these states. So from [00:01:00] North Dakota. All the way down to Nebraska, Northern Missouri, over into Indiana. There was a ton of turbines that were iced up and or snowed in from that storm, Allen Hall: and Rosemary was in warm Australia with other icing knowledge or de-icing knowledge while the US has been suffering. Rosemary Barnes: But you know, on the first day of summer here, a couple of days ago, it was minus one here overnight. So. Um, yeah, it’s, uh, unseasonable and then tomorrow it’ll be 35. Allen Hall: The smartest one of us all has been Yolanda, down in Austin, Texas, where it doesn’t get cold. Yolanda Padron: Never. It’s so nice. It’s raining today and that’s about it. Traffic’s going crazy. Joel Saxum: Rain is welcome for us, isn’t it though, Yolanda? Yolanda Padron: It’s sweet. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does. Very rainy for like 24 hours. Allen Hall: We’ve been saving a story for a couple of weeks until Rosemary is back and it has to do with birds and a year long study over [00:02:00] in Germany. And as we know, one of the most persistent arguments against wind energy has been the risk to birds and permitting and operation shutdowns have been the norm, uh, based on models and predicted collision risks. Well. A new study comes, has just come out that says, what if the models are all wrong? And the new German study suggests that they may be wrong. The Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy, known by its German acronym, BWO Commission Research to examine. Actual collision risk at a coastal wind farm in Northern Germany. The study was conducted by Biocon Consult, a German research and consulting firm, and funded by eight major offshore wind operators, including Sted, Vattenfall, RWE, and E, roa, and. Rosemary using some of the newer technology. They were able to track bird movements with radar [00:03:00] and AI and stereo vision cameras to, to watch birds move through and around, uh, some of these wind farms. And it analyzed more than 4 million bird movements and over 18 months, and they searched for collision victims and what they found was pretty striking more than 99.8% of both day migrating and night migrating birds. Avoided the turbines entirely. The study found no correlation between migration intensity and collision rates. And BD and BWO says The combination of radar and AI based cameras represents a methodological breakthrough. Uh, that can keep turbines moving even when birds are in transit. This is pretty shocking news, honestly, Rosemary, I, I haven’t seen a lot of long-term studies about bird movements where they really had a lot of technology involved to, besides binoculars, to, to look at bird movement. The [00:04:00] 99.8% of the migrating birds are going around The turbines. No, the turbines are there. That’s. Really new information. Rosemary Barnes: I think. I mean, if you never heard anything about wind turbines and birds, I don’t think you’d be shocked like that. Birds mostly fly around obstacles. That’s probably an intuitive, intuitive answer. Because we’ve had it shoved down our throat for decades now. Wind turbines are huge bird killers. It’s kind of like, it’s been repeated so often that it kind of like sinks in and becomes instinctive, even though, yeah, I do think that, um, it’s. Not that, that shocking that an animal with eyes avoids a big obstacle when it’s flying. Um, but it is really good that somebody has actually done more than just trying to look for bird deaths. You know, they’ve actually gone out, seen what can we find, and then reported that they found mostly nothing. We already knew the real risks for birds, like hundreds or thousands, even millions of times [00:05:00] more, um, deadly to birds are things like. Cats. Cars, buildings, even power lines kill more birds than, um, wind turbines do. In fact, like when you look at, um, the studies that look at wind, um, bird deaths from wind turbines, most of those are from people driving, like workers driving to site and hitting a bird with their cars. Um, you know, that’s attributed to wind energy. Not a surprise maybe for people that have been following very closely, but good to see the report. Nonetheless. Joel Saxum: I think it’s a win for like the global wind industry, to be honest with you, because like you said, there’s, there’s no, um, like real studies of this with, that’s backed up by metric data with, like I said, like the use stereo cameras. Radar based AI detection and, and some of those things, like if you talk with some ornithologists for the big OEMs and stuff, they’ve been dabbling in those things. Like I dabbled in a project without a DTU, uh, a while back and it, but it wasn’t large scale done like this. A [00:06:00] particular win this study in the United States is there’s been this battle in the United States about what birds and what, you know, raptors or these things are controlled or should have, um, controls over them by the governments for wind installations. The big one right now is US Fish and Wildlife Service, uh, controls raptors, right? So that’s your eagle’s, owls, hawks, those kind of things. So they’ll map out the nests and you can only go in certain areas, uh, or build in certain areas depending on when their mating seasons are. And they put mild buffers on some of them. It’s pretty crazy. Um, but the one rule in the United States, it’s been kind of floated out there, like, we’re gonna throw this in your face, wind industry. Is the Federal Migratory Bird Act, which is also how they regulate all like the, the hunting seasons. So it’s not, it’s the reason that the migratory birds are controlled by the federal government as opposed to state governments is because they cross state lines. And if we can [00:07:00] prove now via this study that wind farms are not affecting these migratory bird patterns or causing deaths, then it keeps the feds out of our, you know, out of the permitting process for. For birds, Rosemary Barnes: but I’m not sure this is really gonna change that much in terms of the environmental approvals that you need to do because it’s a, you know, a general, a general thing with a general, um, statistical population doesn’t look at a specific wind farm with a specific bird and you’re still need to go. You’re still going to have to need to look at that every time you’re planning an actual wind farm. That’s it’s fair. Yolanda Padron: And it’s funny sometimes how people choose what they care or don’t care about. I know living in a high rise, birds will hit the window like a few a month. And obviously they will pass away from impact and the building’s not going anywhere. Just like a turbine’s not going anywhere. And I’ve never had anybody complain to [00:08:00] me about living and condoning high rises because of how they kill the birds. And I’ve had people complain to me about wind turbines killing the birds. It’s like, well, they’re just there. Joel Saxum: If we’re, if we’re talking about energy production, the, if everybody remembers the deep water horizon oil spill 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. That oil spill killed between 801.2 million birds. Just that one. Speaker 6: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Poolman on the park for Wind energy o and M Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at W om a 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and m Australia [00:09:00] is created by wind professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches Allen Hall: well in the high desert of Central New Mexico, near a lot of what were ghost towns that were abandoned during the Great Depression. If there is a flurry of activity pattern, energy sunzi, a project is near completion after 20 years of planning and permitting. When. It’s supposed to be finished in 2026. It’ll be the largest renewable energy project in the Western hemisphere. More than 900 turbines spread across multiple counties. A 550 mile transmission line stretching to Arizona and then onward to California, and $11 billion bet that’s being made on American wind. Now, Joel, it’s a kind of a combination of two OEMs there, Vestus and ge. The pace of building has been really rapid over the last six, eight months from what I can [00:10:00] tell. Joel Saxum: Yeah. We have talked to multiple ISPs, EPC contractors. Um, of course we know some of the engineers involved in building a thing on the pattern side. Right. But this sheer size of this thing, right, it’s, it is three and a half gigawatts, right? You’re talking 900 turbines and, and so big that one OEM really couldn’t, I mean, it’s a, it’s a risk hedge, right? But couldn’t fulfill the order. So you have massive ge tur set of turbines out there. Massive set of vestas turbines out there. And I think one thing that’s not to be missed on this project as well is that transmission line, that high voltage transmission line that’s feeding this thing. Because that’s what we need, right? That was when we built, started building up big time in Texas, the cre, the crest lines that were built to bring all of that wind energy to the major cities in Texas. That was a huge part of it. And we have seen over the last six months, we have seen loans canceled, uh, permits being pulled and like troubles being in hurdles, being thrown up in the face of a lot of these transmission lines that are planned. [00:11:00] These big ones in the states. And that’s what we need for energy security in the future, is these big transmission lines to go. So we can get some of this generation to, uh, to the market, get electrons flowing into homes and into industry. But this thing here, man, um, I know we’ve been talking about Sunz, the Sunz project, uh, and all the people involved in it, in the wind industry for a, what, two, three years now? Oh, at least. Yeah. It’s been in planning and development stage for much longer than that. But the. The, the big bet. I like it. Um, bringing a lot of, um, bringing a lot of economic opportunity to New Mexico, right? A place that, uh, if you’ve driven across New Mexico lately, it needs it in a dire way. Uh, and this is how wind energy can bring a lot of, uh, economic boom to places that, uh, hadn’t had it in the past. Allen Hall: And this being the largest project to date, there’s a, I think a couple more than a pipeline that could be larger if they get moving on them. We see another project like this five years [00:12:00] from now, or we think we’re gonna scale down and stay in the gigawatt range just because of the scale and the things that Sunzi went through. Joel Saxum: We have the choke chair, Sierra Madre project up in Wyoming that’s been chugging the Anschutz Corporation’s been pushing that thing for a long time. That’s, that’s along the same size of this unit. Um, and it’s the same thing. It’s, it’s kind of hinged on, I mean, there’s permitting issues, but it’s hinged on a transmission line being built. I think that one’s like 700. 50 miles of transmission. That’s supposed to be, it’s like Wyoming all the way down to Las Vegas. That project is sitting out there. Um, it’s hard to build something of that size in, like say the wind corridor, the Texas, Oklahoma, uh, you know, all the way up to the Dakotas, just simply because of the massive amount of landowners and public agencies involved in those things. It’s a bit easier when you get out West New Mexico. Um, I could see something like this happening possibly in Nevada. At some point in time to feed that California [00:13:00] side of things, right? But they’re doing massive solar farms out there. Same kind of concept. Um, I, I think that, um, I would love to see something like this happen, but to invest that kind of capital, you’ve got to have some kind of ITC credits going for you. Um, otherwise, I mean, $11 billion is, that’s a lot of money Allen Hall: since Zia will have PTC. Which is a huge driver about the economics for the entire project. Joel Saxum: Yeah. But you’re also seeing at the same time, just because of the volatility of what’s happening in the states wind wise, uh, there was a big article out today of someone who got wind that EDF may be selling its entire Allen Hall: US onshore renewable operation or US renewable operation. That was Wood Mac that. Put that out. And I’m still not sure that’s a hundred percent reliable, but they have been 50% for sale for a while. Everybody, I think everybody knew that. Joel Saxum: Yeah. I don’t know if it’s a hundred percent reliable as well. I would agree with you there. However, there’s, it’s the [00:14:00] same thought process of European company pulling outta the United States. That’s where a lot of the renewable energy capital is, or it has been fed to a lot of that capital comes from Canada and other places too. Right. But that’s where it’s been fed through. Um, but you’re starting to see some, some. Uh, purchasing some acquisitions, a little bit of selling and buying here and there. I don’t, I don’t think that there’s, uh, massive ones on the horizon. That’s just my opinion though. Allen Hall: Well, won’t the massive ones be offshore if we ever get back to it? Joel Saxum: Yeah, you would think so, right? But I, that’s gonna take a, uh, an administration change. I mean the, the, all that stuff you’d see out in California, like when we were originally seeing the leases come out and we were like, oh, great. More offshore opportunity. Ah, but it’s California, so it’ll be kind of tough. It probably won’t be till 20 32, 20, something like that. I don’t think we’ll see possibly California offshore wind until 2040 if we’re lucky. Allen Hall: Joel, what were the two wind turbines selected for Sunz? They were both new models, right? One from Renova and then the other one from [00:15:00] Vestas, Joel Saxum: so the Vestas was 242 V, 1 63, 4 0.5 megawatts machines, and the, and the GE Renova. Just so we get, make sure I get clarity on this. 674 of its three. They were 3.6, but they’re 3.61 50 fours. Allen Hall: Okay. So both turbine types are relatively new. New to the manufacturer. CZ has two new turbines styles on the site. Joel Saxum: Yeah, we were told that when they were originally like getting delivered, that they didn’t have type certificates yet. That’s how new they were. Allen Hall: So Yolanda. As Sania starts to turn on, what are things that they need to be aware of blade wise, Yolanda Padron: besides the lightning and the dust in New Mexico? It’s probably gonna tip them. I don’t know exactly what they’re counting with as far as leading edge protection goes. Allen Hall: Pattern usually doesn’t, uh, have a full service agreement. Joel, do you remember if that was an FSA? I don’t think so. Joel Saxum: I would say [00:16:00] because those are Vestas turbines on the one that, yes, Vestas really doesn’t sell a turbine without it. Knowing internally how big patterns engineering group are, I don’t know if they can completely take on the operations of a thousand more turbine, 900 more turbines overnight. Right? So I think that there is gonna be some OE EMM involvement in these things, uh, simply to be at that scale as well. I don’t know of anywhere else with a 1 54 install a GE 1 54. So the things that I wouldn’t looking out is the. It’s the brand new type stuff, right? Like do internal inspections when they’re on the ground. You don’t know what kind of condition these things are in, what, you know, what is the, you haven’t, nobody’s seen them. Like you’re the first ones to get to get your hands on these things. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I think they’re definitely gonna have to go with some sort of consulting or something externally as far as what exactly they’re dealing with. I know, Rosemary, you’ve touched on it a lot, right about. [00:17:00] How the changing the blade types and changing the turbines every x amount of years is really not conducive to, to being able to repeat the same results. And if you’re having that for hundreds of turbines at a new site that you’ve already had so much time and money invested in creating, it’ll, it’s, it’s a big undertaking. Rosemary Barnes: It’s really interesting because. When you have such a large wind farm be, I’m assuming one of the first wind farms may be the first to get this new turbine types, then if there’s a serial defect, it’s gonna be very obvious. ’cause with smaller wind farms, one of the problems is that, uh, the numbers are too small to definitively say whether something is, um, serial or just random bad luck. Um, but when you get. So how many wind turbines is it? Joel Saxum: Almost a thousand total. It’s [00:18:00] 674 GE turbines and 242 Vesta turbines. Rosemary Barnes: You can do statistics on that kind of a population and this area. I mean, there’s lightning there, right? Like this is not an area where you’re not gonna see lightning. You know, in know the first couple of years, like there, there will be. Hundreds of turbines damaged by lightning in the, the first couple of years I would suggest, um, or, you know, maybe not. Maybe the LPS are so, so great that that doesn’t happen. But, you know, the typical standard of LPS would mean that, you know, even if you only see, say we see 10 strikes per turbine to year and you get a 2% damage rate, that is, you know, lots of, lots of individual instances of blade damage, even if everything works as it should according to certification. And if it doesn’t, if you see a 10% damage rate or something from those strikes, then you are going to know that, you know, the, um, LPS is not performing the way that the standard says that it should. It’s not like that’s a slam dunk for, um, [00:19:00] proving that the design was not sufficient or the certification wasn’t correct. It’s always really, really tricky. My recommendation would be to make sure that you are monitoring the lightning strikes, so you know exactly which turbine is struck and when, and then go inspect them and see the damage. Ideally, you’re also gonna be measuring some of the characteristics of the lightning as well. But you do that from day one. Then if there is a problem, then you’re at least gonna have enough information within the, um, you know, the serial defect liability period to be able to do something about it. Joel Saxum: Let me ask you a question on that, on just the, that lightning monitoring piece then. So this is something that’s just, it’s of course we do this all the time, but this is boiling up in the thing. How do you, how do you monitor for lightning on 916 turbines? Probably spread, spread across. 200 square miles. Rosemary Barnes: Well, there’s, there’s heaps of different ways that you can do it. Um, so I mean, you can do remote, remote lightning detection, which is [00:20:00] not good enough. Then there are a range of different technologies that you can install in the, um, turbines. Um, the most simple and longest standing solution was a lightning cart, which is installed on the down conductor at the blade route. That will just tell you the amplitude of the biggest strike that that turbine has ever seen when it’s red. I have literally never seen a case where the lightning card definitively or even provided useful evidence one way or another when there’s a, a dispute about lightning. So then you move on to solutions that, uh, um. Measuring they use, uh, Alan, you’re the electrical engineer, but they, they use the, the principle that when there’s a large current flowing, then it also induces a magnetic field. And then you can use that to make a, a, a change and read characteristics about it. So you can tell, um, well first of all, that that turbine was definitely struck. So there are simple systems that can do that quite cheaply. The OGs ping [00:21:00] sensor, does that really cost effectively? Um, and then OG Ping. Phoenix Contact and Polytech all have a different product. Um, all have their own products that can tell you the charge, the duration, the um, polarity or the, yeah, the, the, if it’s a positive or a negative strike, um, yeah, rise time, things like that. Um, about the strike, that’s probably, probably, you don’t. Need to go to that extent. Um, I would say just knowing definitively which turbine was struck and when is gonna give you what you need to be able to establish what kind of a problem or if you have a problem and what kind of a problem it is. Joel Saxum: I think that like an important one there too is like, uh, so I know that Vest is in a lot of their FSA contracts will say if it’s struck by lightning, we have 48 or 72 hours to inspect it. Right. And when you’re talking something of this scale, 916 turbines out there, like if there’s a lightning storm, like [00:22:00]we’ve been watching, we watch a lot of lightning storms come through, uh, certain wind farms that we’re working with. And you see 20, 30, 40 turbines get struck. Now if a storm comes through the middle of this wind farm, you’re gonna have 200 turbines get struck. How in the hell do you go out without ha Like you need to have something that can narrow you down to exactly the turbines that we’re struck. That being said that next morning or over the next two days, you need to deploy like 10 people in trucks to drive around and go look at these things. That’s gonna be a massive problem. Pattern has about 3000 turbines, I think in their portfolio, and they, so they’re, they’re familiar with lightning issues and how things happen, but something at this scale when it’s just like so peaky, right? ’cause a storm isn’t through every night, so you don’t have that need to go and inspect things. But when you do. That is gonna be a massive undertaking. ’cause you gotta get people out there to literally like, at a minimum, binocular these things to make sure there isn’t any damage on ’em. And it’s gonna be, there’s gonna be storms where hundreds of turbines get hit. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, well [00:23:00] those three companies, those three products that I mentioned are aiming to get around that. I mean, it will depend how contracts are worded. I know in Australia it is not the norm to check for lightning ever. So if the contract says someone has to, you know, use human eyeballs to verify lightning damage or not, then. That’s, you know, that’s what has to happen. But all of these technologies do aim to offer a way that you wouldn’t have to inspect every single one. So Polytech is using, um, different lightning characteristics and then they’ve got an algorithm which they say will learn, um, which types of strike cause damage that could. Potentially progress to catastrophic damage. Um, and then the other one that is interesting is the eLog Ping solution because they’ve also got the, um, damage monitoring. That’s their original aim of their product, was that if there’s a damage on the blade tip, say it’s been punctured by lightning, it, it actually makes a noise. Like it makes a whistle and they listen out for that. So if you combine the [00:24:00]lightning detection and the, um, like blade. Tip structure monitoring from Ping, then you can get a good idea of which ones are damaged. Like if it’s damaged badly enough to fail, it is almost certainly gonna be making a noise that the ping can, um, detect Allen Hall: as wind energy professionals. Staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it, d. That’s why the Uptime podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new to wind, PES Wind has the high quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit PE ps win.com today and this quarter’s PES WIN Magazine. There’s a lot of great articles, and as we roll into December. You’ll have time to sit down and read them. You can download a free copy@pswin.com. And there’s a, a really interesting article about [00:25:00] offshore, and there’s a number of articles about offshore this quarter. Well, two Dutch companies developed a solution to really one of the industry’s most persistent headaches. And when it’s flange alignment. So when you’re trying to connect the transition piece to the mono paddle out in the water, it’s not really easy to do. Uh. So PES interviewed, uh, Ontech and Dutch heavy lift consultants to explain their flange alignment system known as FAS. And it started when a turbine installation needed a safer, faster way to try to align these two pieces. So if you can think about the amount of steel we’re talking about, these are really massive pieces you’re trying to line and put bolts in, not easy to do out in the ocean. Uh, so what this new device can do is it can align the flanges in a couple of minutes. It can reshape deformed, flanges and Joel, as you know, everything offshore can get dinged warped. That’s pretty easy to do, so you don’t want that when you have a, a heavily loaded, bolted joint, like those flanges to be [00:26:00] perfectly, uh, smooth to one another and, and tight. So these two companies, Amek and Dutch heavy Lifting consultants have come up with some pretty cool technology to speed up. Installations of wind turbines. Joel Saxum: Yeah, I would say anybody who’s interested in wind, offshore wind, any of that sort, and you have a little bit of an engineering mind or an engineering, uh, quirk in your mind. As, as I think we said earlier in the episode today, engineering nerds. Um, I would encourage you to go and look at some heavy lift operations offshore, whether it is offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, offshore construction of any time or any type even pipe lay operations and stuff. Just to take, just to take in the, the sheer scale. At how, uh, at how these things are being done and how difficult that would be to manage. Think about the just tons and tons of steel and, uh, trying to put these pieces together and these different things. And then remember that these vessels are thousands of dollars, sometimes a minute for how specialized they are. Right? So a lot of money gets put into [00:27:00] how the, like when we’re putting monopiles in that these transit transition pieces get put on. A lot of money has been spent on. The ver like technology to get, make sure they’re super, super tight tolerances on the verticality of those when they’re driving the actual piles in. And then you’re doing that offshore in a nasty environment, sometimes from a jack up vessel, sometimes not from a jack vessel, sometimes from a mor or like a, you know, a pseudo mor vessel on, uh. Dynamic positioning systems, and then you’re swinging these big things with cranes and all this stuff, like, it’s just a crazy amount of engineering eng engineering and operational knowledge that goes into making this stuff happen. And if you make one little mistake, all of a sudden that piece can be useless. Right? Like I’ve been a part of, of heavy offshore lifting for oil and gas where they’ve. It’s built a piece on shore, got it out to the vessel, went to go put it off sub sea in 2000 meters of water, lowered it all the way down there and it didn’t fit like you just burned [00:28:00] hundreds and hundreds and thousands of millions of dollars in time. So this kind of technology that Anima Tech is putting out in Dutch Heavy Lift consultants. This is the key to making sure that these offshore operations go well. So kudos to these guys for solve for seeing a problem and solving a problem with a real solution. Uh, instead of just kind of like dreaming things up, making something happen here. I’d like to see it. Allen Hall: Check out that article and many more in this quarter’s. PES Wind Magazine downloaded free copy@pswind.com. Well, Yolanda, as we know, everybody’s out with Sky Specs, uh, doing blade inspections, and so many turbines have issues this year. A lot of hail damage, a lot of lightning damage and some serial defects from what I can tell. Uh, we’re, we’re getting to that crazy season where we’re trying to get ready for next year and prioritize. This is the time to call C-I-C-N-D-T and actually take a deep hard look at some of this damage, particularly at the blade root area. We’ve seen a lot more of that where, [00:29:00] uh, there’s been failures of some blades at the root where the bolt connection is. So you’re gonna have to get some NDT done. Boy, oh boy, you better get C-I-C-N-D-T booked up or get them on the phone because they’re getting really busy. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, you definitely need to schedule something. Make sure that you know at least where you stand, right? Be because imagine going into try to fix something and just have a hammer and then close your eyes and then see what you can fix. That way, like sometimes it feels like when you’re in operations, if you don’t have the proper. The proper inspections done, which sometimes there’s, there’s not enough budget for, or appetite or knowledge, um, in some of these projects to have early on. You come in and just, you, you see the end result of failure modes and you might see something that’s really, really expensive to fix now. Or you might think of, oh, this problem happened at X, Y, Z. [00:30:00] Site, so it’ll probably happen here. That’s not necessarily the case. So getting someone like NDT to be able to come in and actually tell you this is what’s going on in your site, and these are the potential failure modes that you’re going to see based on what you’re getting and this is what will probably happen, or this is what is happening over time in your site, is a lot more indicative to be able to solve those problems faster and way. More way, in a way less expensive manner than if you were to go in and just try to fix everything reactively. You know, if you have half a bond line missing. Then later you, your blade breaks. It’s like, well, I mean, you, you could, you could have seen it, you could have prevented it. You could have saved that blade and saved yourself millions and millions of dollars and, and so much more money in downtime. Joel Saxum: Yeah. The first time I ran into Jeremy Hess and the C-A-C-N-D team was actually on an insurance project where it was Yolanda, like you said, like [00:31:00] they let it go. The, the operator and the OEM let it go way too long, and all of a sudden they had a, like wind farm wide shutdown costing them millions in production. Uh, to find these, these issues that, uh, could have been found in a different manner when you talk to the team over there. Um, why we like to recommend them from the podcast is Jeremy has an answer for everything. He’s been around the world. He’s worked in multiple industries, aerospace, race, cars, sailboats, you name it. Um, he’s been a client to almost everybody, you know, in the wind industry, all the OEMs, right? So he knows the, the issues. He has the right tool sets. To dive into them. You, you may not know, not, you don’t need to be an NDT expert to be able to have a conversation because he will coach you through, okay, here you have this problem. Alright, this is how we would look at it. This is how we would solve it. Here’s how you would monitor for it, and then this is how you would, you know, possibly fix it. Or this is what the, the solution looks like. Um, because I think that’s one of the [00:32:00] hurdles to the industry with NDT projects is people just don’t. Know what’s available, what’s out there, what they can see, what they, you know, the issues that they might be able to uncover, like you said, Yolanda. So, um, we encourage, um, anybody that says, Hey, do you know anybody in NDT? Yeah, it’s Jeremy Hanks and the C-I-C-N-D-T team. Call ’em up. They’ve got the solutions, they’ll help you out. Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Just reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show and we’ll catch you next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:33:00] Podcast.

There are concerns over the fact that more than half of trainees aren't completing their apprenticeships. Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds is seeking extra funding so new industry bodies can investigate low apprenticeship completion rates. She says the government could help through policy settings and funding, but the nature of the problem was likely to vary between industries. Te Pūkenga Chief Executive Gus Gilmore told Andrew Dickens things like training wage rates, low pay, and the economic downturn causing them to lose their job. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Manatee County's state legislators opened yet another front in what many in the Republican county believe is a war against home rule: This time, it's about taking away local control over one of the area's biggest economic generators.Next: The Schools of Hope law forces districts to hand over buildings of underused schools to private operators. That, in turn, has prompted the Sarasota school district into a flurry of reorganization plans to fill school buildings with low enrollment. But now, the superintendent retracted a consolidation plan - the second turnaround within a week. Then: Jon Thaxton was an unusual recent addition to the Sarasota County Planning Commission. The former county commissioner and long-time environmental activist was expected to change the public perception that this appointed advisory board is a rubber stamp for developers. But his first vote took many by surprise.Finally: At a film screening and panel discussion about the war in Ukraine, we asked the panelists about their reactions to Trump's peacemaking efforts. 

A view that more students are dropping out of school early because they have a clear career pathway in mind. More than 1300 15-year-olds received an exemption last year and 90% went into further study. Canterbury's Darfield High School Principal Andy England told Mike Hosking schools have been working hard with polytechs, while the Ministry runs a youth guarantee programme. He says students can spend one or two days with a tertiary provider while attending school, and sometimes they want to do that full time before they turn 16. It's also believed some students are leaving early due to the people around them in successful careers. England told Hosking lots of students, particularly in rural areas, look up to people who leave school early. He says role models often don't have an academic pathway but many are in successful careers or running businesses. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newly released cabinet documents reveal the extent of cuts in the Polytech sector: 550 courses abolished and 900 full time jobs gone. 

Students are stunned that Taranaki's largest tertiary education provider is threatened with closure. Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more.

Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology is welcoming the dissolution of Te Pukenga. From next year, ten of the formally 16 polytechnics across the country will be re-established into standalone institutes after being clumped into one governing body. NMIT Executive Director Olivia Hall told Heather du Plessis-Allan the organisation runs quite a tight stopping and starting of programmes, and has been very lean on all support functions available. She says the community and local industries are very clear on their expectations for the industry, which is to be standalone. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 15th of July, the Government has revealed their plan to dissolve Te Pukenga and return 10 polytechs to regional governance. The Blues are exploring whether they should move their home games away from Eden Park. Heather's onboard and details what she thinks the issues are. Legendary All Blacks coach Mike Cron has a new book out, so we get the lowdown from one of our best rugby minds right before he helps Australia take on the Lions this weekend. Get the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here we go again. The polytechs that were centralised by the last government are going to be de-centralised by the current mob. It's not quite back to the future because it won't be the same as we had before the politicians started tinkering. There will now be ten polytechs run locally, six others will have to prove their financial viability, but it still feels like we're going back to where we started from. And this ideological flip flop isn't free. The Labour Government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several years to support the merger and transformation of the vocational education sector. And now National has budgeted $200 million to fund the reversal. Key Cost Drivers in this change include swapping out the IT and systems integration across multiple institutions from centralised to local. Obviously, staff restructuring, which includes finding new staff for the polytechs and firing some staff created in the centralisation. Then there's branding and communications and legal and compliance costs. It isn't cheap and at the end of the day, we're back to square one. The same things happening over at Health New Zealand. It's happening all over the country as the government reverses Labour's changes. People are packing up their desks that they packed up four years ago. Now who to blame? Labour for coming up with the new ideas in the first place, or National's dogged determination to reverse everything the last mob did because they've built their brand on not being Labour? I don't know about you but the whole thing feels like wasteful government spending, and are we substantially better off?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Tertiary Education Union says job and course cuts across the polytechnic sector are a nightmare. Education correspondent John Gerritsen has more.

Interest and grave concern have been mounting over the impact of agriculture and the food choices we all make on the environment, particularly on climate change. With natural weather disasters occurring much more frequently and serious threats from warming of the atmosphere in general, it's natural to look for places to make change. One person who has thought a lot about this is our guest today, Dr. William Dietz of George Washington University. He's been a prominent voice in this space. Bill, you're one of the people in the field I respect most because our relationship goes back many years. Bill is professor and director of research and policy at the Global Food Institute at George Washington University. But especially pertinent to our discussion today is that Dr. Dietz was co-chair of the Lancet Commission on the global syndemic of obesity, under nutrition and climate change. Today, we'll focus on part of that discussion on beef in particular. Interview Summary Bill, let's start out with a basic question. What in the heck is a syndemic? A syndemic is a word that reflects the interaction of these three pandemics that we're facing. And those are obesity, under nutrition, and we've also called climate change a syndemic insofar as it affects human health. These three pandemics interact at both the biologic and social levels and have a synergistic adverse impact on each other. And they're driven by large scale social forces, which foster clustering and have a disparate impact on marginalized populations. Both in the developed and equally important, in the developing world. Here are a couple of examples of syndemics. So, increased greenhouse gases from high income countries reduce crop yields in the micronutrient content of crops, which in turn contribute to food insecurity and undernutrition in low and middle income countries. And eventually the reduction in crop yields and the micronutrient content of crops is going to affect high income countries. Beef production is a really important driver of the climate change, and we're a major contributor in terms of the US' contribution. And beef production drives both methane and nitrous oxide emissions, and in turn, the consumption of red and processed meat causes obesity, diabetes, colon cancer, and cardiovascular disease. And finally, obesity, stunting and nutrition insecurity occur in the same children and in the same population in low- and middle-income countries. Okay, so we'll come back to beef in a moment, but first, help us understand the importance of agriculture overall and our food choices in changing climate. Well, so I think we have to go back to where this, the increase in mean global surface temperatures began, in about 1950. Those temperatures have climbed in a linear fashion since then. And we're now approaching a key level of increase of 1.5 degrees centigrade. The increase in mean surface temperature is driven by increased greenhouse gases, and the US is particularly culpable in this respect. We're it's second only to China in terms of our greenhouse gas emissions. And on a per capita basis, we're in the top four with China, India, and Brazil and now the US. And in the US, agriculture contributes about 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, and about 30% of fossil fuels are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. But when you look at the actual contribution of car use among the fossil fuel use, it's pretty close to the contribution of greenhouse gases from agriculture. The important point here is each one degree increase centigrade in air temperatures associated with a 7% increase in water vapor. And this is responsible for the major adverse weather events that we're seeing today in terms of increased frequency and severity of hurricanes, the droughts. And I learned a new term from the New York Times a couple of days ago from the science section, which is atmospheric thirst. I had trouble understanding how climate change would contribute to drought, but that same effect in terms of absorbing moisture that occurs and drives the adverse weather events also dries out the land. So increasingly there's increased need for water use, which is driven by atmospheric thirst. But that increase in air temperature and the increase in water vapor, is what really drives these storms. Because in the Pacific and in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, this increase in air temperature is associated with an increase in water temperature, which further drives the increase in the severity of these storms. Thanks for that background. Now let's get to beef. You and I were not long ago at the Healthy Eating Research conference. And you gave what I thought was a very compelling talk on beef. We'll talk in a minute about how much beef figures into this overall picture, but first, tell us how beef production affects both climate and health. And you mentioned nitrous oxide and methane, but how does this all work? Cattle production is a big driver of the release of methane. And methane comes from cow burps. The important thing to understand about methane is that it's 80 times more powerful than CO2 in terms of its greenhouse gas emission. And that's because it has a very long half-life when it gets up into the atmosphere? Well, actually it's interesting because the half-life of methane is shorter than the half-life of nitrous oxide. So, it's an appropriate target for reduction. And the reduction has to occur by virtue of reduced beef consumption, which would reduce beef production. The other piece of this is that nitrous oxide is derived from fertilizer that's not absorbed by plants. And the application of fertilizer is a very wasteful process and a huge percent of fertilizer that's applied to crops is not absorbed by those plants. And it washes into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico. But also, increases the genesis of nitrous oxide. And nitrous oxide is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than methane. About 260 times more powerful than CO2 with a very, very long half-life. So, as a target, we really ought to be focused on methane, and if we're going to focus on methane, we need to focus on beef. You could imagine people who are opposed to these views on climate change making fun of cows burping. I mean, are there enough cows, burping enough where the methane that's coming out is a problem? Yes. Maybe a better term that we can use is enteric fermentation, which is in effect cow burps. But enteric fermentation is the major source of methane. And nitrous oxide, the same thing. The agricultural system which supports cattle production, like the feedlot fattening from corn and wheat. The genesis of nitrous oxide is a product of fertilizer use and fertilizer use is a real important source of nitrous oxide because of the amount of fertilizer which is not absorbed by plants. But which washes into the Mississippi River and causes the dead zone in the Gulf, but also generates an enormous amount of nitrous oxide. So, between those two, the enteric fermentation and the origin of nitrous oxide from fertilizer use, are a lethal combination in terms of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. And it's important to know that those greenhouse gas emissions are associated with important declines in crop yields. Crop yields have declined by about 5% for maize for wheat, for soybeans, and somewhat less for rice. These crop yields have yet to affect the US but are clearly a problem in the Global South. In your talk, you cited a paper by Scarborough and colleagues that was published in the Journal Nature Food that modeled the environmental impact of various diets. Could you please explain what they found? This was a really nice study of four diets in the United Kingdom. Actually it was five diets. They looked at vegans, vegetarians, low meat eaters, medium meat eaters and high meat eaters. And looked at the contribution of these diets to the genesis of methane, nitrous oxide, and also importantly, land use and water use. And the most expensive, and the most detrimental environmental impact of these diets, were the among the high meat eaters. These were substantially greater than than the genesis of for example, methane by vegans. For example, high meat eaters generated about 65 kilograms per day of methane compared to vegans, which generated only four kilograms per day of methane. And when you reduce beef, and there were two lower categories, these measures come much more into line with what we'd like to have. The low meat eaters generate about half of methane that the high meat eaters generate. This is also true for their genesis of nitrous oxide. And importantly, the land use among vegans and vegetarians is about a third of the land use required for the production of beef. And water use by meat production is about twice that generated by the water use by the production of plant-based diets. I think these are important data because they, they really reflect the importance of a lower meat consumption and higher plant-based diet. Not just in terms of greenhouse gases, but also in terms of land use and water use. Not to mention health. Not to mention health. Yes. I think it's important to continue to remind ourselves that beef consumption is associated with a variety of chronic diseases like obesity, like diabetes, like colon cancer and like cardiovascular disease. So, there's this double whammy from beef consumption, not only on the climate but also on human health. In your talk that I heard it was interesting to see how you interpreted this information because you weren't arguing for no beef consumption. Because you were saying there could be tremendous benefit from people going from the high beef consumption category to a lower category. If you could take all the people who are consuming beef and drop them down a category, it sounds like there would be tremendous benefits. People could still have their beef but just not have it as often. Right. I think that's an important observation that we're not talking about the elimination of beef. We're talking about the reduction in beef. And the Eat Lancet Commission pointed out that protein consumption in the US was six times what it should be in terms of human needs. And a lot of that protein comes from beef. And there's this belief, widespread, popular belief that beef is the most important source of protein. But comparisons of plant-based diets and plant-based proteins have an equivalent impact and equivalent absorption pattern like beef and are equally nourishing. That's a really important thing to make prominent because people are thinking more and more about protein and it's nice to know there are various healthier ways to get protein than from a traditional meat diet. Well, one of the, one of the important reports from the dietary guidelines advisory committee was to reclassify lentils, beans and peas as proteins rather than vegetables. And I think that's a, something which has not been widely appreciated, but it gives us a real important area to point to as an alternative protein to beef. Bill, on this calculus, how important is the way the cattle are raised? So, you know, you have big cattle farms that might have a hundred thousand cattle in a single place being raised in very close quarters. And it's industrial agriculture, the kind of the epitome of industrial agriculture. But more and more people are beginning to study or experiment with or actually implement regenerative agriculture methods. How much would that help the environment? That's kind of a complicated question. If we just start with beef production, we know that grass fed beef has a healthier fatty acid profile than feedlot fat and beef. But the total generation of greenhouse gases among grass fed beef is greater because they're fostered on land for a longer period of time than those cattle which are committed to feedlots. My understanding is that most of the cattle that go to feedlots are first raised on grass and then moved to feedlots where they're fed these commodity products of corn and wheat and, and maybe not soy. But that feedlot fattening is a critical step in beef production and is associated with overcrowding, antibiotic use, the generation of toxic dust really. An enormous amount of fecal material that needs to be adequately disposed of. It's the feedlot fattening of beef is what adds the adverse fatty acid content, and also contributes to the local environment and the damage to the local environment as a consequence of the cattle that are being raised. Appreciate you weighing in on that. Let's talk about what might be done. So how do we go about increasing awareness, and the action, for that matter, in response to the contributions of beef production to climate change? It begins with understanding about the contribution of beef production to climate change. This is not a well understood problem. For example, there was a study of 10 major news sources a couple of years ago which asked what the major contributions were of climate change. And they surveyed a hundred articles in each of 10 sources of information, which were popular press like New York Times, Washington Post, etc. And, at the top of that list, they characterize climate change as a consequence of fossil fuels. Whereas a recognition of the contribution of the agricultural system was at the bottom of that list and poorly covered. It's no surprise that people don't understand this and that's where we have to start. We have to improve people's perception of the contribution of beef. The other thing is that I don't think we can expect any kind of progress at the federal level. But in order to build the critical mass, a critical focus, we need to look at what we can personally change. First in our own behavior and then engaging family, peers and organizational networks to build the political will to begin to generate federal response. Now, this brings up a really critical point that I'm not sure we have the time to do this. I don't think we are facing the whole issue of climate change with the kind of emphasis and concern that it deserves. I mentioned at the outset that the mean surface temperature is increasing rapidly. And the expectation was, and the goal was to achieve no greater than a 1.5 degrees centigrade increase by 2050. Well, in 2024, there was already a report that the mean surface temperature had already increased in some places by 1.5 degrees centigrade. So there has to be an urgency to this that I don't think people, are aware of. Youth understand this and youth feel betrayed and hopeless. And I think one of the important characteristics of what we can personally change, in engaging our family and peers, is a way of beginning to generate hope that change can occur. Because we can see it if it's our family and if it's our peers. Another important and critical strategy at the institution and state level is procurement policies. These, I think, are the most powerful tool that we have to change production at the municipal or local level, or at the state level. And we were part of an effort to get the HHS to change their procurement policy for their agencies. And although at the very last minute in the Biden administration, they agreed to do this, that's been superseded now by the changes that Trump has instituted. Nonetheless, this can be a local issue and that's where local change has to occur if we're going to build political will from the ground up. Bill, tell me a little bit more about procurement because a lot of people don't even think about that term. But it turns out that the federal government and local and state governments buy lots of food. How is it that they buy lots of food and how they could have sway over the food environment just by their purchasing decisions? So, let's take schools. Schools are a logical place. They have large contracts with vendors and if they set standards for what those vendors were supplying, like insisted on alternative proteins in at least some of their meal services that would have a big impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from school meals. And would have a positive impact on the health of students in those schools. This is known as value-based purchasing. Purchasing of products related to values that have to do with not only greenhouse gases, but also animal husbandry and fair workers' rights, and strategies like that. These are possible. They should be beginning in our universities. And this is an effort that we have underway here at George Washington University. But there are even better examples where universities have used plants as a default option in their cafeterias, which has, shown that when you do that and when you make the plant-based option the only visible choice, people choose it. And, in three universities, Lehigh, Rensselaer at Polytech, and Tulane, when they made plant-based options the only visible option, although you could ask for the alternative, the choices went up to 50 to almost 60 to 80% when the plant-based option was offered. And these were things like a lentil olive and mushroom spaghetti, which has a very low greenhouse gas emission. In fact, the net effect of these choices was a 24% reduction in greenhouse gases on days when the default was offered. These are practical types of initiatives. We need to increase the demand for these options as an alternative to beef. Bill, I like how you're approaching this from kind of the big top level down, but also from the ground up. Because you talk about things that the federal government could do, for example, but also how important individual choices are. And how people can work with their families and friends and have an inspirational effect by changing their own behavior. Those sorts of things make me hopeful. But let me ask, how hopeful are you? Because I'm hearing from you this sort of dire picture that we might be too late, and that the climate change is happening so rapidly and that the social change needed to overcome that is painfully slow. But on the other hand, you're speaking some optimistic things. So how do you feel overall about where this is going? I'm moderately hopeful. And moderately hopeful because I think young people are engaged. And we need to address the hopelessness that many of them feel. They feel betrayed by us. They feel like the adults in this country have let them down and have not focused enough. That's understandable. Particularly now given the distractions of the new administration. And I think we're in a real crisis and things all of a sudden are very fluid in terms of national initiatives. They've been dominated by the Trump administration, but I think that's changing. And I think that the kind of despotism that led to the station of troops in California, in Los Angeles, is a case in point of overreach of the government. The kind of ICE activities really deserve resistance. And all of that, I think, plays into this notion that we're in a fluid time. This is not a time that people are necessarily going to focus on beef consumption. But the fact that all of these climate changes, clearly a major issue at least for those who admit it, means that we need to begin and continue to build the political will for changes in beef consumption as well as changes in transportation policy. I think that actually beef consumption is an easier target then changes in transportation policy, which is driven by the way our communities are constructed. And in many cases, the only way to get from one place to another is by car, which means that we're going to have a continued dependence on fossil fuels. I don't think we can say the same thing about beef consumption because if we institute reductions in beef consumption, I think we can have a very immediate and longer-term impact on greenhouse gas emissions and therefore on climate change. Bio William (Bill) Dietz is the Director of Research and Policy for the Global Food Institute and a Professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences. Dietz is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) and serves as a consultant to the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. He also is the Director of the STOP Obesity Alliance at The George Washington University. He served as Director of the The Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention & Wellness until June 30, 2024. He is Co-Chair of the Washington, DC Department of Health's Diabesity Committee, a Commissioner on the Washington, DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education's Healthy Youth & Schools Commission, and Chair of its Subcommittee on Physical Activity. Dietz is also Co-Chair of The Lancet Commission on Obesity.

The Vocational Minister's hopeful students will flood back to polytechs after the model is de-centralised. Staff-to-student ratios are still lower than they were in 2016, despite staff numbers being slashed by 8.2%. Penny Simmonds says low ratios signal financial trouble. She told Mike Hosking student numbers have dropped by 11,000 since Te Pukenga was established in 2020. Simmonds says the Government's working hard to get student numbers up and viable again. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Education advocates have said a government decision to remove special funding for Pacific and Māori students in vocational courses harks back to the days of a one-size-fits all education model. The funding cut applies to a per-student subsidy for Pacific and Māori enrolments at poytechnics and private training institutions. It is used to help fund dedicated support services for these students. Teuila Fuatai reports.

The effects of centralising New Zealand's polytechs continue to be felt. New data shows there were about 75 thousand international students in the country last year, down from 125 thousand in 2016. Tertiary's seen the biggest drop, halving in that timeframe. Tertiary Education Union's national secretary Sandra Grey told Mike Hosking polytechs had major reform after Covid, which disrupted courses and staff. She says that confuses students looking to study, who will then consider options elsewhere. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's an expectation it will take two years to get the number of international students in vocational education back to pre-Covid levels. There were about 75-thousand international students in New Zealand last year - 40% less than a peak in 2016. Vocational Minister Penny Simmonds says told Ryan Bridge centralising Polytech's into Te Pukenga is a big factor, as it caused a financial mess. She says it's been a nightmare, which is being unpicked. Te Pukenga is being disestablished by January, with power then going back to individual Polytech's. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's shock and worry in the performing arts industry with news the capital's only creative polytech campus could be for the chopping block. The cash-strapped national polytechnic organisation Te Pukenga is looking at closing Te Kahui Auaha which opened just seven years ago and also serves as a performance venue. Lauren Crimp has more.

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The Government's consulting on a new model to replace Te Pukenga.   The mega-polytech has been running at a large deficit and enrolments have declined.   They're proposing institutes with a pathway to financial sustainability that will stand alone while others will be grouped together in a federation, supported by Open Polytechnic.   Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds told Mike Hosking a lot of what they're looking at is advice the previous minister was given.   She says that was not to go wholesale into a big change, but to address problem areas, and let the others get on with running their polytechnics.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Focusing on the local legends in and around Ōtepoti whose dedication to sustainability is unrivaled, Hofftrough speaks with a myriad of folks who's work improves our green spaces, conserves our natural environments, and reduces our waste. From community garden organisers to wildlife conservationists to worm farmers, we're covering the whole 9 yards. Liam Hoffman runs the Pōpopo Wormporium down at the Otago Polytech. The site is part of the Polytech's sustainability program, and is designed to eliminate organic waste and produce fertiliser for the community gardens. Being a keen gardener, avid compost proponent and all-round knucklehead, Liam finds the job incredibly vitalising and invigorating. The chat centres around his history at Pōpopo, the future of organic waste, and how people can become proficient composters.

Taranaki's largest tertiary education institute says a big improvement in pass rates for Maori, Pasifika and disabled students is down to making sure they get plenty more help and support. Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has been on campus.

For RRC Polytech students facing personal struggles, taking the first step to getting support from the college can be daunting. Guest host Iris Ginez and Case Manager Jeremy Mead discuss the Early Assist Program and how it bridges the gap between students and the supports available to them. Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/rrcprojector/ Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/rrcprojector/ Twitter — https://twitter.com/RRCProjector Do you have an interesting story you think we should cover? Let us know here: https://theprojector.ca/submissions/

Thorbjørn Rasmussen and Michael Drachmann Haag of Polytech discuss the company's new onshore leading edge protection (LEP) product, designed to be more flexible and easier to install than their previous offshore version. Get an inside look at the technical details and customer-focused approach behind Polytech's latest wind industry innovation. Visit https://www.polytech.com/ for more! 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 Joel Saxum: Okay, guys, we're recording here. We're live right now at blades USA 24. We're sitting in the area where there's some coffee and some conversations, ISPs, asset owners, some blade design engineers, and of course, a lot of solution providers. I'm here with Polytech came over from Denmark on a world tour. You're heading back to Denmark. You're going to OMS in San Diego, so we'll be over there. Okay. So I've got Thorbjørn Rasmussen, chief commercial officer over at Polytech and also Michael Drakmann Haag. I got it, right? Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. So chief technical officer. So we have two of the great minds from the Polytech team here right now. Polytech, while they do a lot of different solutions they have some lightning protection things, they sell to OEMs, sell to asset owners, all the above, out of Denmark. They're really known for the L shells. L shells is a product that if you're dealing in wind turbine maintenance at all, you know that the leading edge is a problem and the L shells were developed for offshore use originally, correct? And they have been installed some onshore turbines, some high erosion areas, or even people that are like, you know what? I think this is the solution. I don't have to touch my leading edges for 10, 15, 20 years. I'm putting the big stuff in. So you guys have been behind the scenes, behind the curtain, working on another kind of version of that, but adjusted specifically for onshore. Yes, tell us about that. Michael Drachmann Haag: Yeah, so we've taken all of the great learnings that we've had on the yellow onshore, offshore products, and then we've taken and built. On those innovations. And then we designed a product that then is easier to install comes at a lower price point as well. And really sets aside from the more, you could say more complicated stuff that you get out in the industry. But while still having the the great performance and also then we don't need the material to cure at site, which we often see with coatings and other products. So I think we really try to say that. All of the good things we have from the offshore, we build in that, that into an offshore product. And yeah. Joel Saxum: So I would say, as you thought, so driving this market, primary market research, as we call it, of course, in the commercial world, did you have asset owners come to you and say, hey, this is great, but we'd like this? Thorbjørn Rasmussen: Absolutely. We have been cooperating a lot with the ISP out there, getting feedback for installation method and and what was actually difficult or less easy for the, let's say the premium version. And then asset owners is when they, Take the decision very shortly sometimes they want to run a campaign So it should be easy accessible and so forth and all that feedback has gone back to Michael and the department and try to make sure that was incorporated in the solution And we can elaborate more on this one. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Yeah,

#049 Let's explore Bonitasoft's approach to revolutionizing process automation.In this episode, I'm talking to Charles Souillard, CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft. It's a BPM tool with a focus on flexibility and user engagement in process automation. We describe its core features, including visual process modeling and analytics, designed for a wide range of users. The discussion also covers how Bonitasoft facilitates user involvement in process optimization and supports the disruption of established processes. Additionally, we look at the trends in the BPM market and what Bonitasoft plans for its future development. Charles also gives some very interesting examples. Today's Guest:Charles Souillard Charles is CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft. After co-founding Bonitasoft in 2009, he became CTO and 6 years later COO of the company. Since September 2022, he leads Bonitasoft as CEO. Before co-founding Bonitasoft, Charles was head of the core Bonita software development team within Bull Information Systems. Charles holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Polytech de Grenoble.Bonitasoft's mission is to unleash the full potential of development teams to create automated, process-based, sustainable applications that support innovation and competitive advantage for business.Their product, the Bonita Platform, is primarily used to automate business processes. But as you will learn, you can also use it for process insights.With an ecosystem of more than 240,000 members and customers in 75+ countries, Bonitasoft provides an open source platform for digital process automation. In 2024, there are 74 employees in France, Spain, and Canada. You'll learn:What the underlying philosophy of Bonitasoft isWhat the core elements of the tool areHow the Bonita Platform looks likeHow to proceed to automate processesHow you can use the platform to analyze your process performanceHow Bonitasoft supports to involve the people into the work on processesHow Bonitasoft supports to disrupt established processesWhat the future trends of the BPM tool market in general are and what Bonitasoft has on their roadmap for the futureHow to start process automation with BonitasoftI hope, you enjoy this episode of the New Process Podcast and are curious to learn more in the next episode. Hit subscribe to not miss it!If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode, head to:https://www.NewProcessLab.com/episode49---Follow me on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirkokloppenburg/Want to know how to start rethinking processes? Get my free checklist here: http://www.NewProcessLab.com/checklist

Christopher Luxon is about to head to Australia on his first overseas trip as Prime Minister; Housing Minister Chris Bishop is with us to talk about his review of spending by Kainga Ora; Also Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters joins us to talk to us about his priorities for the Pacific; and the Polytech sector is in troubled waters heading towards its biggest ever deficit.

The Minister for Tertiary Education says the super-institute Te Pukenga will be gone within six to eight months, replaced by 8 to 10 institutions. Yesterday Penny Simmonds instructed the organisation to stop progressing the centralisation of vocational training and education. She says the new government will introduce legislation to get rid of Te Pukenga, which she says has been a total failure, and led to a blow out in costs. Kathryn speaks with former chief executive of Otago Polytechnic Phil Ker.

How much would you pay for a Sailor Dan? What should go in the Sask. Polytech building when they move to Innovation Place? Grocery story conveyor belt etiquette NFT's aren't having a fun time right now. Familiar strangers #StacieAndClayton #yxe

In Pathologists Overseas' first podcast, PO's President, Dr. Tim Amukele interviews Jeff Fisher. Jeff is the Founder and CEO of Comp Pro Med, the makers of the electronic Laboratory Information System (LIS) called Polytech, which has had an outsized role in labs worldwide.  Jeff and Comp Pro Med generously donate their LIS, in collaboration with PO, to labs in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). 

There used to be ivory towers of academic learning, elitist, only a few could enter. Now they're businesses that live or die based on the number of bums they can get on lecture hall seats - and yet they still seem to be lost in the past and unable to forge away into the future. Universities around the country are facing the reality of having to lay off staff and cut classes. It's the loss of international students that's made a big dent in university revenue, with student numbers yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, despite the border reopening last year. Young Kiwis are also opting not to go to university; jobs are readily available. They don't want to run up a huge student debt. Some of them see a university degree as irrelevant - by the time they've got the degree, the learning will be out of date. And so AUT, Victoria and Otago universities have announced staff layoffs at each of their campuses - more than 200 at each of the universities. And the Government is poised to announce a rescue package for the tertiary education sector. I wonder if that is just good money after bad?   Are universities what they used to be as a young person growing up? It was aspirational to think of going to university. I did my journalism degree. It was only one year at the Polytech, but I always in the back of my mind, wanted a degree. I didn't feel fully educated until I had one. I wonder if universities hold the same cachet today for young learners. There was much talk from Helen Clark of the Knowledge Economy. More New Zealanders, more young New Zealanders, becoming more educated. But again, I wonder if the universities have delivered?   If one in three students fails to finish their degree, who are they delivering to? Clearly, young people decide university is not for them and they are left with the student loan that still has to be paid off and nothing to show for it. Universities themselves can't seem to attract enough people to fund themselves. So what is the taxpayer getting out of it? Do we have to rethink the whole university model, instead of coming up with rescue packages that are just going to prop up a system that seems to be failing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Polytech courses up and down the country are underway for the academic year, but the mega-merger entity Te Pukenga still faces delays, staffing issues and budget cuts. Te Pukenga came into existence on January the first, bringing more than 16 individual polytechnics under the one umbrella, with 260-thousand students , and 13-thousand staff around across the country. There have been several high profile resignations from the merged entity, which so far has cost $200 million. The most recent was Richard Forgan, deputy chief executive for strategy and transformation, who finished early this month after just weeks in the job. Te Pukenga's Chief Executive Peter Winder has told staff that savings of $35 million will have to be made this year. And an as-yet unpublished business case for Te Pukenga suggests is seeking a further financial injection of $422.6 million over the next four years, from this year's budget. Penny Simmonds was Chief Executive of the Southern Institute of Technology for 13 years from 1997 to 2020 - before becoming the National MP for Invercargill. She says Te Pukenga is becoming a financial black hole, achieving very little for students and learners.

We've got another contributor story here! First-year Creative Communications student Megan Hederson speaks with Christine Jeroski from the "No Wrong Door" resource center at RRC Polytech. They speak about safety resources for students, what Christine's role is with the program, and speaking out about unsafe behaviours as it pertains to the topic. Give it a listen! Link Dump: FOLLOW us on social media: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/rrcprojector/ Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/rrcprojector/ Twitter — https://twitter.com/RRCProjector Do you have an interesting story you think we should follow up on? Drop it in our anonymous dropbox on The Projector's homepage: https://http://theprojector.ca/

I have come back rested and recharged and really looking forward to the year ahead. Especially given the PM's bombshell announcement last week. Any working parent of a young child would know exactly how Jacinda Ardern felt. This is a huge job, and while other prime ministers have faced challenges, Jacinda Ardern faced more than most. I think to pick herself up, to put herself out there for a year of brutal campaigning, trying to sell unpopular policies, trying to justify Labour's body of work, when really they don't have much in the way of proof to show that their ideologically driven programs have had any sort of success. I mean, perhaps there are rabbits to pull out of the hats this year, we can wait and see if they can offer proof that some of these programs are working, fine - we can judge them then, but to date there's been nothing.  You've got inflation biting. You've got a large group of New Zealander's girding their collective loins waiting for their mortgage payments to roll over and likely double at some point this year. It was always going to be a tough, tough year and a tough election campaign. And if she's had enough of that, who can blame her?   People are making much of the misogyny she endured, and she did. The role of Prime Minister has always polarized New Zealand voters. There are a lightning rod. There have been death threats and vile rumours and vicious comments before Rob Muldoon. David Longley, Ruth Richardson, Helen Clarke, Paula Bennett. They have all faced vile abuse from the ignorant, the ill-informed and the haters. But the abuse heaped upon the soon to be former PM and her family, absolutely ramped up, especially in the aftermath of Covid. Hopefully, the appointment of Chris Hipkins will take some heat out of the political debate.  So Chippy yes, very likeable. Very reasonable. But remember, he's been responsible for portfolios that have failed and are failing. Education fail. He's been spokesman, he's been minister since 2013. Truancy's never been worse. Standards have steadily declined. The Polytech amalgamation looks to be a disaster and it could go on. The Covid response. He presided over a couple of PR disasters with the gangster's moles who actually weren't and the release of personal information around Charlotte. Bellis, the journalist. So you know he looks great, nothing to see here, but in fact his portfolios are hardly blue ribbon portfolios. There's also the fact that he was the only logical choice and what does that say about a caucus that's never had more members?  What does that say about a party that you only have one logical choice? And I did think it was a bit rich when Chris Hipkins said ‘oh yes, we're going to elect a leader… we're not going to see this sort of shenanigans that National went through to find a leader'. Short memory my friend. Remember leading the ‘Anything but Cunliffe campaign, hmm. Remember that? It was only 5 short years ago that you were saved as a party by Jacinda Ardern, and now she's probably saved you again by stepping down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Between volcanos, unexploded ordnance, and a flash of cash, we can say that the new year has really started with a bang. But seriously, folks - extreme weather may be getting more extreme. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted last week, half of all the lightning in the world was concentrated there. That ash is now headed your way, wherever you are. The Uptime crew also considers why GE has extended its partnership with TPI. How strategic is it, and what else might GE have planned as the Vernova spinoff looms? Meanwhile, as the Dogger Bank Wind Farm development continues, about 100,000 tons of UXO from WWI and WWII is expected to need to be cleared. Joel explains how they'll diffuse the situation.  Denmark's PolyTech just got a $135M Euro investment and the Uptime crew has some very specific suggestions for how other small companies could find big investments. If you're interested in growing your company in the wind space this year, don't miss this episode! 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 148 Allen Hall: Well in wind energy this week there's been a lot of great news. TPI is hooked up with GE and it's maybe developing some of the next generation blades for, for GE that's an interesting topic. And, and we also look into LM Windpower in India where they've finished their 50000th blade. Allen Hall: Congratulations to everybody there. And, and then the, the volcano in Tonga created a massive number of lightning strikes, but it also puts debris in the air. And I, I asked a couple questions like, do we have to worry about that debris in the air when it comes to wind turbines that are nearby. Joel Saxum: And then we'll, we'll jump up to the North Sea. Talk about Dogger Bank and the unexploded ordinance, like, so it's been a couple of world wars up there. We've had a lot of things going on and what they're doing to make sure that it is safe for. Not only the infrastructure to go on the ground, but for the workers that are out there putting it in. Joel Saxum: And then the last thing we're gonna talk about here is Polytech just, just raised or got a cash infusion for 135 million Euros. So big amount of money flowing there. We kind of dive into if you are a company, What can you do to race cash? Where can you go? What are some of the resources? Joel Saxum: So it's gonna be an exciting episode. I'm  Allen Hall: Allen 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 of fully charged live event in Australia, Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Allen Hall: There's been some more news between TPI and GE and it's good news for TPI. So TPI announced that they have extended the supply agreement with GE renewables through 2025. That's, that's not actually a long-term extension, but it's a good extension nonetheless. And they plan on working together on next generation blade. Allen Hall: which was a little shocking to me cause I thought that's what LM Wind Power was all about, is that's where all the, the new designs were developed at lm. So GE already has nine production lines with TPI and now they don't, don't make different blade types. At least we don't think that. I think there's multiple lines making the same blade. Allen Hall: But nine lines is a,

The Polytech semester draws to a close for the last time, as we know it, this Friday. It is also just six weeks until the new, single-entity mega polytech is due to launch. But with key staff and salaries issues still to be settled, is it ready? Kathryn speaks with Education Minister Chris Hipkins.

A l’occasion de la Semaine étudiante de l’esprit d’entreprendre, la semaine CREATIV’, le réseau Radio Campus France et les PEPITE proposent des émissions spéciales en région. Voici donc l’émission proposée par PEPITE Centre-Val-de-Loire et Radio Campus Tours, enregistrée à l’école Polytech’ Tours. Dans cette émission, vous entendrez : Christelle Rivas, chargée de mission actions transversales […] L'article Emission spéciale – CREATIV’ , semaine de l’entrepreunariat étudiant. est apparu en premier sur Radio Campus Tours - 99.5 FM.

Catherine Boisneau, enseignante chercheuse à l'université de Tours, POLYTECH, dans les domaines de l'environnement aqueux,nous expose son parcours et nous explique combien "tout est lié" et le pourquoi de l'urgence de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique .

This week, Larry Branan of The R.J. Marshall Company joins me on the show to discuss the Polytech training schedule for POLYCON22. This 3-day event will be packed with some great training at Tower Industries and American Marble Industries. 

Being only 19, and one of the younger people I've interviewed didn't mean that today's guest Nathan had less to share. In November of 2022, he will graduate from Polytech with a Diploma in Quantity Surveying, with two years of industry experience, no debt and a job lined up. Added to that, he is also helping to pay for his girlfriend's tertiary studies as well. He has some big plans for the years ahead and I think his story is worth sharing with high school students wondering “where to from here” as they gear up to leave school.

Five months out from a deadline to centralise, concern the new single-entity mega polytec won't get over the line without massive staff cuts. Te Pukenga - the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology - is due to be up and running by the first of January - bringing together all our polytechnics, institutes of technology and Industry Training Organisations. But it's facing a deficit of up to $110 million, $53.5 million more than budgeted. Former Otago Polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker, is calling it "a national disgrace". He thinks funding has been wasted on bureaucracy and says Te Pukenga's board is "just not up to the task." Kathryn is also joined by Merran Davis, a former deputy chief executive of Te Pukenga, who supports the new model, but agrees it is being poorly executed. Ms Davis is calling on the Minister to appoint a Commissioner to oversee it.

Are the governments plans for a mega-polytech in serious trouble? Te Pukenga - or the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology - is supposed to be up and running by the January 1 2023, bringing together the all of the country's polytechnics, institutes of technology and Industry Training Organisations. But the entity is facing a deficit of up to $110 million, $53.5 million more than budgeted, partly due to lower enrolments. The Chief Executive is on unexplained leave, an acting CE is in place, and last week the Chairperson extended an apology to all staff for not listening and not appreciating their expertise. The Education Minister Chris Hipkins says he's made it clear to Te Pukenga that the projected deficit is too high and wants an urgent update on how it is triming costs and creating further efficiencies. Kathryn speaks with the President of the Tertiary Education Union, Tina Smith.

Business correspondent Pattrick Smellie joins Kathryn to talk about the mega-polytech Te Pukenga , the problems it's been having and what it means for skills training during a skills crisis. He'll also talk about the review of the screen sector. Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

A damning report has come out this week, revealing what can only be described as financial meltdown at the new polytech mega-merger.Pattrick Smellie from Business Desk who has been looking into this joined Andrew Dickens.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A damning report has come out this week, revealing what can only be described as financial meltdown at the new polytech mega-merger.Pattrick Smellie from Business Desk who has been looking into this joined Andrew Dickens.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Les références : Consulter l'Agenda du Libre pour les autres événements en lien avec le logiciel libre Réunion de bilan « Libre à vous ! » saison 5 et préparation de la saison 6 vendredi 1er juillet de 10 h 30 à 12 h maximum, La réunion aura lieu en visioconférence et est ouverte à toute personne qui le souhaite Apéro April à Paris le 1er juillet 2022 Pique-nique pour les 25 ans de l'April à Orléans le 2 juillet 2022 Pique-nique pour les 25 ans de l'April à Beauvais le 2 juillet 2022 Pique-nique pour les 25 ans de l'April à Paris le 10 juillet 2022 Pass the SALT à l'école Polytech de Lille du 4 au 6 juillet 2022Vous pouvez commenter les émissions, nous faire des retours pour nous améliorer, ou encore des suggestions. Et même mettre une note sur 5 étoiles si vous le souhaitez. Il est important pour nous d'avoir vos retours car, contrairement par exemple à une conférence, nous n'avons pas un public en face de nous qui peut réagir. Pour cela, rendez-vous sur la page dédiée.

Les Code Troopers tourangeaux c'est déjà une boîte atypique. Ils étaient 7 indépendants, anciens de Polytech principalement et ils se sont associés au bout d'un moment. J'ai croisé un Troopers sans son uniforme au Délirium et il m'a dit "Bah ouais j'ai 7 patrons, et ils sont tous devs, mais ça va en fait". Et Nicolas avec qui on parle est aussi atypique au regard de ce podcast, parce que c'est un commercial. Un BizDev parce qu'il est moderne. Et il a pris le temps de s'acculturer avec 7 patrons devs, et ce n'est pas le commercial typique d'ESN avec un costume et une BM (je sais pas s'il a une voiture). Bref, il y a beaucoup de choses intéressantes dans ce podcast. Comment les Troopers parlent de diversité ? Comment ils recrutent ? Mais ce qui a retenu mon attention ce sont leurs produits. Des logiciels, qu'ils commercialisent sous licence. Et ils marchent ! C'est un détail, mais beaucoup de sociétés de service essayent de lancer des produits sans succès. Alors on parle avec Nicolas de pourquoi ça marche, de ce que cela apporte à l'équipe, des synergies que cela crée. Nicolas n'aurait pas aimé qu'on en fasse le titre de l'épisode. Mais pour moi c'était vraiment le sujet qui m'a le plus intéressé, et un vrai différenciant de l'entreprise.

Souleymane KAMARA notre invité est originaire du Sénégal et du Congo. Souleymane est né et a grandi au Congo Brazaville, il débute ses études supérieures à Dakar au Sénégal, mais s'envole rapidement pour la France où il décroche quelques années plus tard le précieux sésame, un Doctorat en Physique et en Nanosciences, une récompense méritée pour cet homme de qualité dont l'unique boussole est la passion. Une passion qui l'a toujours guidé et qui l'a amené à travailler successivement comme Ingénieur de recherche et Enseignant-Chercheur à l'Université de Montpellier et à Polytech, l'occasion pour Souleymane de faire avancer la science et dans le même temps de transmettre sa flamme à la future génération. Grâce à la qualité de ses travaux scientifiques, publiés dans de nombreuses revues, Souleymane est recruté comme Ingénieur de Recherche Permanent au CNRS, une institution dont le prestige est reconnu de part le monde. Souleymane est actuellement Responsable de la Valorisation de la Recherche & l'Innovation dans le plus grand laboratoire de physique du CNRS, une véritable prouesse, pour ce digne représentant du continent qui visiblement, ne s'est pas taillé une place dans la cour des grands pour faire de la figuration. Honoré par de nombreuses distinctions, et adoubé par ses pairs, son parcours d'exception fait de lui un modèle pour la jeunesse, une responsabilité que Souleymane assume fièrement et souhaite à travers son témoignage, susciter de nombreuses vocations. Suivez Souleymane sur LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/souleymane-kamara-5a7b3715a/ Tous les Podcasts sont sur : https://www.african-valley.org Suivez nous sur twitter @talks_diaspora : https://twitter.com/talks_diaspora Suivez nous sur LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/conversations-avec-la-diaspora/ Suivez nous sur Facebook : https://bit.ly/fcbk_talks_diaspora Interview mené par Stéphane EKOBO @jsekobo : https://twitter.com/jsekobo

Sortez ft. SVE #2 – mercredi 15 décembre 2021Deuxième intervention du Service Vie Étudiante de l’Université de Tours dans votre émission quotidienne Sortez ! Aujourd’hui, Merlin Marseault vient avec deux Ambassadeur·rice·s de la Vie Étudiante. Bachar est en troisième année d’études d’informatique à Polytech et Lisa est en master recherches de lettres modernes. Iels viennent […] L'article Sortez! Le SVEC et ses référents est apparu en premier sur Radio Campus Tours - 99.5 FM.

We begin by noting a minor victory in Saskatchewan where the Polytech has rescinded its vax mandate, but will force students to pay for ongoing testing instead. Then John reviews a letter he received from Health Canada in response to his inquiry about Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid. In the second part of the show, we talk about the federal travel ban that went into effect on Nov. 30 for the unvaxxed.Justice Centre, Dec 4, 2021: Sask Polytech reverses vaccination policy after pressure, but plans to impose testing costs on studentsNews.com.au, Nov 18, 2021: Most vaccinated place on Earth told to cancel holiday plans amid ‘exponential' rise in Covid casesSports Illustrated, Dec 3, 2021: UCLA Game Scrapped by Huskies' COVID IssuesMaxime Bernier on Twitter, Nov 29, 2021: "Presumably, most if not all the people spreading the #Omicron variant..."Daily Mail, Nov 30, 2021: German euthanasia group says it will only carry out assisted suicides on people vaccinated against Covid-19The Pulse, Nov 28, 2021: Calgary Doctor's Office Raided By Regulators Searching For Vaccine Exemption FilesEaston Spectator, Oct 13, 2021: WATCH: Banned Dr. Nagase calls out Alberta Health Services for creating health crisisBrownstone Institute, Nov 30, 2021: More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (PDF)AHS, Oct 5, 2021: Ivermectin Evidence Review Update (PDF)Justice Centre, Dec 1, 2021: Justice Centre prepares to challenge unscientific travel regulations in Federal CourtNarcity via MSN, Dec 3, 2021: BC Released Its Plan For Holiday Gatherings & Here's Who You Can Hang Out WithNational Post, Dec 1, 2021: Majority of Canadians unwilling to let unvaccinated friend, family member into their home: pollNBC, Jun 10, 2021: Evidence grows stronger for Covid vaccine link to heart issue, CDC saysToday, Nov 17,2021: Depression worsened during pandemic, boosting heart disease risk, experts warnSupport the show (https://www.jccf.ca/donate/)

Ingénieur de formation et embauché dans une grande société à l'issu de son stage, sa vie professionnelle semble toute tracée et cette routine annoncé l'effraie. Après quelques mois il quitte l'entreprise pour fonder une société : Augmented Magic qui mêle magie et technologie pour créer des spectacles magiques et interactifs. Quelques années plus tard, il réalise que la routine qu'il a voulu fuir l'a rattrapé, son boulot même extraordinaire était finalement une sorte de routine dorée. Son boulot lui prends beaucoup de temps, il est fatigué, les jours et les spectacles s'enchaînent. Et un jour le déclic, ses envies de voyages reviennent. Voyager pour découvrir le monde, voyager pour se découvrir. "Un jour j'ai eu 27 ans. Et le moi du passé m'avait laissé un message sous forme d'un rappel dans mon calendrier :  CitationAlors ça y est ? T'es enfin parti ? Sans vraiment savoir pourquoi, le voyage me fait rêver depuis enfant : l'aventure sur les chemins, les grands espaces, la liberté. Je prends l'avertissement au pied de la lettre. Ok c'est bon, je pars." En quelques minutes je me retrouve dans l'avion qui m'amène de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Direction Sao Paolo au Brésil, voici les premiers mots de mon carnet de voyage."  

Ingénieur de formation et embauché dans une grande société à l'issu de son stage, sa vie professionnelle semble toute tracée et cette routine annoncé l'effraie. Après quelques mois il quitte l'entreprise pour fonder une société : Augmented Magic qui mêle magie et technologie pour créer des spectacles magiques et interactifs. Des années plus tard, il quitte tout pour suivre son envie de voyager, il saute dans un avion, direction Sao Paolo au Brésil.   Arrivé au Brésil, un pays inconnu, où il ne connaît personne et ne parle pas la langue il est perdu. Ayant le temps et l'envie il décide d'aller à Rio, en marchant. Cette marche de 3 mois est la première de nombreuses autres. Il arpentera le continent pendant plusieurs années à la recherche de sa voie et la réponse à cette question :    "Pourquoi je vis, pourquoi j'existe ?"

On this episode, we’ll be discussing some of the final details of POLYCON 2021 coming up in just two weeks (Sep. 13-15th)! Jennifer Towner and Larry Branan join me again, along with ReBecca Erdman of Sand and Swirl Inc. and Kirk Williamson of Tyvarian to discuss the Polytech training schedule for Monday & Wednesday, as...

Vous écoutez « Histoires de transferts », le podcast qui part à la rencontre de celles et ceux qui ont fait le pari de s'aventurer au-delà de l'intimidante frontière qui sépare le monde de la recherche et le monde socio-économique ! Les chercheurs et leurs partenaires que vous entendrez dans les 6 épisodes de cette série ont bénéficié du programme de financement de l'Université Clermont Auvergne dédié à l'innovation et au transfert, le Hub Innovergne de CAP 20-25 . Dans ce sixième épisode je reçois, Fabrice Audonnet, lauréat du Chèque Recherche Innovation, mis en place par le programme Hub Innovergne de CAP 20-25  et Laurent Massacrier. Fabrice Audonnet est enseignant-chercheur à Polytech, école de Clermont Auvergne INP, grande école d'ingénieurs. Il conduit ses recherches dans l'axe GEPEB de l'Institut Pascal, laboratoire de recherche de l'Université Clermont Auvergne.  Laurent Massacrier est PDG de GBCC, Green Business and Consulting Company, bureau d'étude sur les bio-matériaux.  Ils nous parlent de leur collaboration pour mettre au point de nouvelles molécules permettant de développer des produits industriels plus respectueux de l'environnement.  Lien vers le laboratoire de Fabrice Audonnet : http://www.institutpascal.uca.fr/index.php/fr/presentation-gepeb Lien vers l'entreprise de Laurent Massacrier : https://www.gbcc.bio/ Crédits : Réalisation : Matthieu Poinot Graphisme : Chooette Design https://www.chooette-design.com Musique : The Ghost Towns - Execution song (Lordakat Remix) https://theghosttowns.bandcamp.com

Join Lt. Governor Dr. Bethany Hall-Long as she sits down with  Diana Walker, representing Lt. Governor's Challenge 2020 award winner Polytech School District. Polytech School District noticed a significant increase in disciplinary actions for students using e-cigerettes/vape products, and set out to tackle nicotine addiction in the district.Want to nominate yourself or someone you know who is making a difference in their community in Delaware? Submit your nomination today! https://ltgovernorschallenge.orgSupport the show (https://ltgovernorschallenge.org/)

 Lena Levin is the CEO and co-founder of Via Surgical. Her previous venture PolyTouch Medical was acquired  in 2011.She has managed to raise tens of millions of dollars over the years with private investors and Israel innovation, and in her not so she mentors early-stage startups and different accelerators.Here is a summary of the interview: 01:20               How do four students with a schnitzel end up founding a medical devices company?03:11               How does someone without a medical background become a HealthTech entrepreneur?04:38               What did you learn from the PolyTouch acquisition?06:54               When you set on your way around the PolyTouch product – was it clear to you that the need was so large? 08:25               In retrospect after 10 years, do you think the Polytech story was a success?09:33               Tell us what Via Surgical does.11:42               How involved were surgeons and specialists in the development of the product itself? 12:58               What tips can you give to the listeners, to companies that are thinking of getting KOLs on board? 14:12               As a CEO, how do you manage to have that input of what is happening in the market in terms of innovation, and how do you factor that in, in your evaluation of the market?17:32                How difficult is it to sell single product into the surgical market?19:12               Can you share a little bit about your experience selling in the US market with a product like yours?22:05               What can you tell us about what you've done around online sales advertising in social networks?23:36               How difficult is it to raise money for pure medical devices with Digital Health taking a portion of the funding and are you seeing a change in terms of who the investors are and what the focus is? 26:08               What tips can you give to companies who are thinking about working with Israel's representative offices worldwide such as the office that supported your deal with Catcher out of Taiwan?.29:47               How do you see the unique challenges or different challenges that you face being female CEO and entrepreneur?34:19               Where is Via Surgical going next? 

本集節目由藍諾導演贊助播出 對了！ 藍諾最新的線上課程！ 我決定要買來訓練我的夥伴們～ 點以下連結！錯過機會難得！ 藍諾剪接課程預購連結 (68折)： https://www.pressplay.cc/link/6DD1C5A1 ⌁ Music Select Zenosyne - Never Gonna Slow Down 0:43 藍諾如何認識Will 1:50 Will當初做YouTube的起源 4:10 藍諾開始做YouTube的時機 4:50 藍諾的介紹：出生、成長背景 7:48 如何抉擇是否去念Polytech 9:34 未來的徬徨與自我探索 13:22 藍諾怎麼開始創業的 15:22 印象深刻的第一個案子：Porsche 17:13 YouTube演算法的重要性：帛琉 18:54 線上課程的想法與契機 20:37 如何購買線上課程 22:11 團隊的重要性 23:09 如何放手、分配工作 25:11 創作者該如何適應一直在變的大環境 26:51 商業與創作中如何取得平衡 30:55 WAKETHEFUP的名稱由來 31:15 總結-給想創業年輕人的建議 點以下連結收看： 談錢就俗氣了? 創作者最避諱的事 Ft. Will Walker 【Sofa Talk EP.2】 https://reurl.cc/e9KKZ7 - 官方 Instagram｜wwakethefup 官方 Facebook｜https://reurl.cc/Z75Njg Will’s Instagram｜willwalker96 Vivi’s Instagram｜voffair ✉️ 合作請洽:  wwakethefup@gmail.com 贊助鼓勵:  https://pay.firstory.me/user/wakethefup Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) Powered by Firstory Hosting

Here we go again. Groundhog Day.I saw the headline that the PM was “frustrated”. Really? She's frustrated? How do you think the “team of 5 million” feel?Because actually, despite her insistence on continuing to use this line, there is no team of 5 million. There’s a good chunk of New Zealanders taking Covid seriously, scanning, using the app, isolating when they’re supposed to, but there’s also sadly a selfish group of people - as evidenced by this latest case in South Auckland - who couldn’t give a stuff.Don't isolate, won’t test, don't follow the rules, are happy to jeopardize everyone else’s health, wellbeing and now livelihoods.The PM said not to play the blame game, she said not to point fingers - but that was right after she said herself that these people had let us down, that the new case had broken the rules while he should have been isolating - instead going to the gym, a mall, a supermarket, Burger King and Polytech.She said this behaviour created 'multiple high risk situations'. But let’s not assign blame.Actually, if we are to assign blame, I blame the ineptitude of the Ministry of Health. The handling of this latest cluster has been a shambles. It’s been bungle after bungle. Slack contact tracing, ineffective communication, this 'high trust’ model they keep running has been shown up for what it is - a disaster. High trust, low enforcement- which seems this governments mantra for everything these days, has proven detrimental and extremely costly to every New Zealander.We are in lockdown because of someone ignoring the rules, yes, but it's the Ministry who've dropped the ball here. And they know it.The PM looked exasperated at that hastily called Saturday night press conference. She looked angry and frustrated. When asked if this lockdown is a direct result of them not handling this cluster well enough in the first place she revealingly said “not necessarily” - that's not a convincing 'no'.  There are many who will just blame Covid for this, say it’s such a tricky virus. But we need to take the blinkers off and look beyond the virus itself and start looking critically at the real issue - the handling of it.Countries are functioning in direct correlation to how their leaderships have handled Covid. It’s not so much the virus but our response to it.We didn’t hustle hard enough to get to the front of the vaccine line, we are not vaccinating fast enough, our contact tracing is not gold standard - emailing people who don’t respond and waiting for them to spread the virus further before acting is not a proficient way to handle anything. We have fiddled while Rome burns.All we are left with when leaderships sit on their hands is knee jerk reactions, waiting until the horse bolts before trying to fix anything.It's an incompetent way to run things, and now each and every one of us is paying the price for that.

Systèmes d'information : la question cruciale du management -- Marc Bidan, Polytech Nantes, Université de Nantes

Explorer les auteurs aux frontières du management -- Interview de Marc Bidan, Polytech Nantes, Université de Nantes

Etude de cas en management des systèmes d'informations -- Interview de Marc Bidan, professeur à PolyTech Nantes, Université de Nantes

Sorcellerie, clan et hypo-management -- Interview de Marc Bidan, professeur à Polytech Nantes, Université de Nantes

Polytechs are trying to make more space available as record numbers sign up for apprenticeships. Since July when the government made them fees free for the next two and a half years, twice as many have taken one on compared to the same time last year, with 17,000 now earning while they are learning. And as reporter Conan Young and cameraman Nathan McKinnon discovered, many new recruits are older and pivoting away from industries decimated by Covid-19.

From fees free to a new national polytechnic, the Labour-New Zealand First government has book-ended its three years in power with some big changes in tertiary education. Including student loans and allowances it now spends about $4.5 billion a year on the sector. Education Correspondent John Gerritsen asks people what impact its policies have had as part a series reviewing the government's performance.

Polytech acquires Fos4x - what does this mean for the company? We discuss a broken wind turbine blade in Ohio that smells fishy, and chat a bit about the often overlooked small wind turbine market - can farms and small businesses actually sustain themselves using micro turbines? Learn more about Weather Guard Lightning Tech’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Full Transcript: EP26 - PolyTech Acquires Fos4x, the Small Wind Turbine Market & Broken Turbine Blade Causes All right, welcome back. This is the uptime podcast. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. And I'm joined here for episode 26, remotely with our lightening expert Allen hall. How are you? Great, Dan. Hey, uh, Just some interesting news out of Germany, about some of the low frequency testing of wind turbine noise and potential health effects. Uh, sounds like a couple of years study just got finished up. So definitely want to talk about that one today. Yeah. We haven't had as much research on the show of late, but I figured you were probably snooping around research gate and, and all those others for, for something. It couldn't have been long. So here we are. Uh, also on the show today, we're gonna talk about, uh, A broken blade in Ohio, which you think is probably lightning related, but they don't really have a strong cause yet. So that's pretty interesting, a really big lightning strike court in Florida. Something like almost off the charts, a little bit of a offshore wind news, uh, from New Jersey. And a big acquisition between Polytech? Uh, well, not between, but Polytech acquiring a Fos4x, which is a sensor technology company. And lastly, we'll talk a little bit about that low frequency noise, uh, study, and just talk a little bit about a small wind turbines because that's one we haven't covered too much. We've covered different types, like the typhoon turbine and sort of different variations, but the small one turbine market is. Out there and it's growing and it's becoming more and more viable as technology increases. So we'll chat a little bit about that. So let's start with this broken blade. So you kind of have like this theory, um, and it doesn't seem like they really know what's going on yet. And like, they just have like one drone photo and they're doing some, uh, but it's, it's a pretty impressive photo. Like the blade broke off very close to the root and it was only what, six months old. So this really should really shouldn't happen. So what's your, what's your take? There was some discussion online about it and, and they were talking about possible overspeeds. An overspeed condition happens when there's large wind speeds, the control system for the turbine. Doesn't address those high speeds and essentially feather the blades and slow down the rotation. Right? Overload structure, overload conditions. That doesn't seem likely, uh, just because the blade, well, it's a new turbine. So usually overspeed conditions happen on failure modes on older turbines as systems don't work like they were intended because of design problems or aging problems. Right. Uh, so to have it happen on a relatively new turbine is unusual and it's a , which is a pretty good size wind turbine. And what we have. I noticed on some wind turbine blades over time. Is that when. A lightening can occur to those blades. And if you happen to damage the carbon fiber, a lot of these have carbon fiber in them. If you damage the carbon fiber spar or the main internal structure inside of it, you can get this delayed damage effect where as it, as a blade continues to span, you got this, this fracture happening and eventually the, the blade let's go and. That is not, especially a couple of years ago, there was a lot more common. So it's, it's surprising to see that now, Dan, it kind of works like this, you know,

Annonsør for denne podcasten er en gjeng jeg kjenner personlig, og som jobber med å gjøre verden til et bedre sted å leve. Sjekk ut linken under å se om du også har lyst å donere noen kroner til mennesker som trenger det mer enn deg: www.gieffektivt.noBjarne Lie er Managing Partner og grunder av Verdane, som han lanserte i 2003 gjennom en spin-out fra den norske venture pioneren Four Seasons Venture. Bjarne var med på sin første grunder reise i olje- og gassektoren i London og Ukraina, har vært konsulent ved McKinsey i London og forskningsassistent ved European University Institute i Firenze. Hans første erfaring med venture capital fikk han som grunder av PaperX i London, hvor teamet reiste over 150 millioner kroner fra engelske, amerikanske og finske investorer. Hos Verdane har han vært med på å skalere en rekke internasjonale vekstselskaper og sitter for tiden i styrene til EasyPark, Kappa og Polytech. I denne episoden får du et innblikk i hvordan Bjarne sin historiebakgrunn hjelper han å ta bedre investeringsbeslutninger, hva han ser etter i vekstselskaper, hvordan han forsøker å bygge en kultur basert på tillit, frihet og resultatansvar, og hvilke verdensproblemer vi må løse så raskt som mulig for å en bærekraftig fremtid. Jeg håper du likte episoden og lærte noe nytt. Hvis du har tid og lyst hjelper det meg stort hvis du legger igjen en positiv omtale av podcasten, og at du deler den med venner og nettverk. Vil du ha kontakt med meg er den enkleste måten gjennom Twitter @chrisvonheim. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A six-year-old boy who fell ill and was taken out of school by his parents is one of New Zealand's latest cases of community transmission. Auckland health authorities informed Southern Cross Campus in Mangere East of the positive result at 5pm on Thursday. Chairperson of the Southern Cross Campus board of trustees, Peter Parussini, says he's hopeful that fast action prevented widespread infection. Another primary school student, this time a child at Glamorgan School in Torbay on Auckland's North Shore, has also tested positive for Covid-19. That pupil has been confirmed as among the 13 confirmed cases of community transmission announced yesterday. Taeaofou i Puaseisei Preschool in Mangere East and the Manukau Institute of Technology also had one case each confirmed by authorities late last night. This case is already included in the Ministry of Health figures released yesterday but it's unclear if the preschool has been previously counted. A regional public health service spokesperson says it is working with the schools to identify close contacts.

The new national polytechnic is facing a bleak first year of existence after 11 of its 16 member institutes announced losses for last year totaling millions of dollars. The polytechnics that now make up the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology collectively made a multi-million-dollar deficit for the third consecutive year in 2019 and many of them are expecting losses again this year. RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.

Durée : 6:45 - Les chercheurs veulent hacker le virus, et on ne parle pas seulement de médecine et de pharmacie... Il y a déjà eu récemment dans la région le respirateur artificiel MakAir pour le traitement du Covid-19, il est maintenant aussi question de la prévention pour limiter la circulation du virus. L’Université de Nantes a en effet participé à un hackathon fin avril, organisé par la Commission européenne. Un week-end intitulé “L’UE contre le covid” qui a vu la participation de près de 20 000 personnes et 2 000 projets. Parmi eux donc, une équipe nantaise pluridisciplinaire rassemblant des chercheurs mais aussi des étudiants en architecture, en design, des ingénieurs, des professionnels de l’éducation et de la santé. Tous mobilisés pour travailler sur l’apprentissage et l'application des gestes barrière à l’école, alors que la reprise approche… Le projet s'appelle CorriDoor. Interview avec Patrick Le Callet, enseignant à Polytech et chercheur au laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes.  

Durée : 6:45 - Les chercheurs veulent hacker le virus, et on ne parle pas seulement de médecine et de pharmacie... Il y a déjà eu récemment dans la région le respirateur artificiel MakAir pour le traitement du Covid-19, il est maintenant aussi question de la prévention pour limiter la circulation du virus. L’Université de Nantes a en effet participé à un hackathon fin avril, organisé par la Commission européenne. Un week-end intitulé “L’UE contre le covid” qui a vu la participation de près de 20 000 personnes et 2 000 projets. Parmi eux donc, une équipe nantaise pluridisciplinaire rassemblant des chercheurs mais aussi des étudiants en architecture, en design, des ingénieurs, des professionnels de l’éducation et de la santé. Tous mobilisés pour travailler sur l’apprentissage et l'application des gestes barrière à l’école, alors que la reprise approche… Le projet s'appelle CorriDoor. Interview avec Patrick Le Callet, enseignant à Polytech et chercheur au laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes.  

Durée : 56:37 - Dans ce 26è épisode en confinement du Fil de l'histoire, plein feux sur la recherche scientifique ! Des chercheurs nantais travaillent pour mettre au point un dispositif pour faciliter l’apprentissage des gestes barrière. Des outils qui pourraient aider les enfants par exemple à bien se laver les mains… ça s’appelle CORRIDOOR, et on en parle avec Patrick Le Callet, enseignant à Polytech et chercheur au laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes. Et puis dans la 2è partie de l'émission, place à la playlist concoctée par Axel, sur la thématique "Nos mains". Belle écoute !   

Durée : 56:37 - Dans ce 26è épisode en confinement du Fil de l'histoire, plein feux sur la recherche scientifique ! Des chercheurs nantais travaillent pour mettre au point un dispositif pour faciliter l’apprentissage des gestes barrière. Des outils qui pourraient aider les enfants par exemple à bien se laver les mains… ça s’appelle CORRIDOOR, et on en parle avec Patrick Le Callet, enseignant à Polytech et chercheur au laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes. Et puis dans la 2è partie de l'émission, place à la playlist concoctée par Axel, sur la thématique "Nos mains". Belle écoute !   

Seit einigen Tagen erst ist die polytechnische Uni von Hongkong wieder geöffnet. Sie war im November Schauplatz einer tagelangen Belagerung und bürgerkriegsähnlicher Zustände.

We look at the Polytech merger announcement, the rural outlook for 2019, tractor sales with Garry Watt from Commercial Norwood, Ian Williams from Pioneer Brand Products, and an update on the Australian droughts from Pete Robinson in Townsville. Kim Blair is in for Hamish McKay this weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An industry expert says bringing New Zealand's vocational education institutions together as one, is the shake-up they needed.Yesterday the Education Minister announced plans to centralise all institutions under a New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, with a single governing body. Motor Trades Association chief executive Craig Pomare told Kate Hawkesby he's excited by the proposal."It's a phenomenally radical approach and we need it. We are short of about 2000 qualified technicians just in automotive."He said the proposal helps put trade employers back in front to fill shortages. 

Tonight I will be talking about: Rippling of implants Are there any products you should limit/stop completely to prepare for surgery? Medication? How do I know if plastic surgery is the right choice for me? What can I expect in my initial consultation? Do I need to bring anything with me? How should I prepare on the night before and the day of my procedure? What should I expect immediately after surgery? What should I look out for in the days and weeks following surgery? Are all private hospitals the same? Do you have before and after photos I can look at for each procedure and what results are reasonable for me? (Breast Augmentation) What will my scarring look like? G Cup and want to stay the same cup size Why do we use Polytech over Allergen Natrelle? Will the results of liposuction/fat transfer last? Does the time of year (summer/winter) affect recovery time after surgery? Do you have drains if you have a thigh lift? I want a breast lift, but not necessarily bigger boobs, just fuller at the top. Would having a small implant help achieve this... Can it fill out the skin? Or do they always increase the size no matter how small the implant is? ...and anything else that crops up! #AskJJ www.staianoplasticsurgery.co.uk FACEBOOK LIVE TUESDAY AT 7PM.

Baptiste a commencé le théâtre, dès le primaire. Il exprime très tôt la volonté d’en faire son métier.Au lycée, une discussion avec ses parents le convainc de ne pas se lancer tout de suite mais d’attendre d’avoir un diplôme. Il décide de faire un diplôme d’ingénieur en agroalimentaire, qu’il obtient. Diplôme en poche il enchaîne … Continuer la lecture de « Baptiste Juge : de l’ingénierie à la comédie musicale »

Baptiste a commencé le théâtre, dès le primaire. Il exprime très tôt la volonté d'en faire son métier. Au lycée, une discussion avec ses parents le convainc de ne pas se lancer tout de suite mais d'attendre d'avoir un diplôme. Il décide de faire un diplôme d'ingénieur en agroalimentaire, qu'il obtient. Diplôme en poche il enchaîne par une formation en comédie musicale à ECM (Ecole de Comédie Musicale) pour accomplir son rêve. Baptiste m'a reçu un soir chez lui dans sa salle de répétition. Meublée d'un piano et d'un canapé c'est là qu'il s'entraîne, répète et prépare ses rôles. Le déroulé : 0min24 : Avant, les études d'ingénieur, le bureau des arts, la découverte de la comédie musicale 8min19 : Et maintenant, l'ECM, la comédie musicale, le chant, les auditions 25min29 : Comment j'en suis arrivé là, l'attente, avoir du temps pour réfléchir 39min34 : Comment je capitalise, l'organisation, la gestion de conflit, savoir construire son réseau 44min12 : Le conseil, toujours avoir une solution de back-up

Jake and Rob talk about the future of the podcast and their day at Florida Polytechnics campus. 

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Dr. Joseph Liu provides us with an introduction to cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Monero and HCash. We preview the coming partnership between Monash University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to develop a Blockchain Cryptocurrency Research and Development Lab. For more information, visit www.monash.edu

Ingénieur en mécanique dans le domaine de l'automobile, Alexandre travaille dans ce milieu pendant 3 ans. Sans trop de conviction, mais sans bonne raison de changer car après-tout, ce n'est pas si mal. Un jour, un ami lui demande en riant s'il souhaite acheter un Théâtre, lui le passionné de longue date. Et il réalise à ce moment qu'il ne s'est jamais demandé s'il était possible de mêler sa passion du théâtre à une activité professionnelle qui ferait sens pour lui. Il démissionne pour se consacrer à trouver sa place dans ce monde qui le fascine. Alexandre nous a reçu un matin dans son appartement pour nous raconter ses doutes, ses choix difficiles et le bonheur qu'il a désormais à se réveiller le matin, sans programme défini. Adieu la routine, adieu la mécanique, bonjour l'improvisation, bonjour la recherche de sens. Le déroulé : 0min45 : Avant, ma formation et mes premières expériences 7min12 : Et maintenant, mon boulot, la production et diffusion d'art du spectacle 16min10 : Comment j'en suis arrivé là, l'ennui, la peur de se trahir 33min32 : Comment je capitalise, aborder les problématiques différemment 38min30 : Le conseil, ne pas se censurer !

Ingénieur en mécanique dans le domaine de l’automobile, Alexandre travaille dans ce milieu pendant 3 ans. Sans trop de conviction, mais sans bonne raison de changer car après-tout, ce n’est pas si mal.Un jour, un ami lui demande en riant s’il souhaite acheter un Théâtre, lui le passionné de longue date.Et il réalise à ce … Continuer la lecture de « Alexandre Slyper : De l’ingénierie au théâtre »

Les chiffres liés à Internet donnent le tournis ! Et pourtant, aujourd'hui, seule 42% de la population mondiale est connectée (soit un peu plus de 3 milliards de personnes) et ce, de façon relativement inégale : 80 % en Amérique du Nord, 78 % en Europe de l'Ouest – 83 % en France – mais 18 % en Afrique et seulement 12 % en Asie du Sud. La création de données numériques n'a jamais été aussi féconde et l'augmentation est exponentielle, au point de devenir, d'un point de vue environnemental un sujet extrêmement préoccupant. Le coût de fonctionnement énergétique d'Internet représente déjà 1,5% de la consommation globale d'électricité, ce qui représente 8,5 milliards de dollars chaque année. Un problème qui devrait devenir plus présent à mesure que la masse de données produites augmente: rien qu'en 2016, la quantité de données produite à été multipliée par 4 ! Des éléments qui viennent mettre à mal l'image «d'efficacité lisse et de sympathie environnementale» dont bénéficie encore largement Internet… Car il faut arrêter de dire que ce n'est qu'une banale distraction ! Le réseau devient aussi fondamental pour nos vies que les routes, les canalisations ou le pétrole. Le virage vers l'efficience énergétique est à la fois nécessaire et reconnu : les exploitants des centres de données, dont la consommation électrique croît de 5 % par an, cherchent depuis plusieurs années à réduire leur facture énergétique. Comment voyage l'information ? Internet peut-il devenir éco-responsable ? Le coût énergétique du web : c'est le thème de cette émission du Labo des savoirs… CréditsÉmission présentée par Agathe Petit avec Thibaud Poncin et Thomas Guyard réalisée par Pauline Verbaenen. Invités– Florent Orsoni dirige, au sein de l'école de Design de Nantes les programmes et les activités du Design Lab « Ville durable » et la chaire de recherche par le design Banque Populaire Atlantique – LIPPI Environnements connectés.– Louise Vialard, diplômée d'architecture, travaille sur le projet de réflexion « Les Villes Concrètes », qui consiste à réutiliser la chaleur d'internet au service de la ville.– Jean-Marc Menaud, chercheur au LINA, le laboratoire informatique de Nantes-Atlantique, plus exactement sur le site de Polytech. MusiqueStromae – Carmen (2015)Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy me (1971)

Moriah Graham shares the story of her journey to becoming the first African-American Air-Force JROTC cadet to earn a private pilot's license in the state of Delaware. That she persevered through adversity where other's might have quit, serves as an inspiration to young people everywhere. Every young girl who has visions of airplanes dancing in her head will be motivated by Moriah's determination.

Un grand nombre de systèmes physiques ne peuvent pas être raisonnablement testés de manière expérimentale. Il est nécessaire de les modéliser mathématiquement et d’approcher la solution de modèle numériquement. Les modèles utilisés ne sont que des approximations successives des phénomènes entrant en jeux dans le système réel. Les modèles fins étant souvent plus difficiles à résoudre que les modèles compliqués, il est alors pertinent de chercher à ne prendre en compte les phénomènes complexes que là où cela est nécessaire. Cette stratégie sera illustrée sur des exemples liés aux milieux poreux et à la dynamique des gaz.

L'objectif premier des ordinateurs a longtemps été la capacité à effectuer des calculs de plus en plus compliqués. Après avoir rappelé l'histoire des calculateurs des tables de calcul (-500 ans av JC) aux supercalculateurs d'aujourd'hui, les problèmes de précision numériques liés aux calculs numériques sur ordinateur seront présentés ainsi qu'un outil d'évaluation de qualité numérique développé au sein du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6.

Dans la caractérisation qualitative des aliments, la texture est une composante du plaisir de la dégustation. A partir de descripteurs sensoriels utilisés pour qualifier la texture d’aliments analysés par les participants (biscuits, chocolat, pain…) un lien sera établi avec la microstructure des produits et l’état physique des composants pour remonter en amont sur une démarche raisonnée de recettes et de procédés.

Dans cette conférence nous parlerons de la robotique médicale. On s’intéressera plus particulièrement aux dispositifs d’assistance aux gestes médicaux réalisés sous imagerie échographique. Différentes méthodes de commande de ces dispositifs seront présentées ainsi que leurs applications médicales.

Dans notre exposé nous avons montrons comment la taille et la charge des nanocolloïdes (argiles, oxydes de fer magnétiques, savons, agents apaississants) pouvent influer sur les propriétés d'agrégation et de complexations de divers poluannts essentiellement métaliques ou nucléaires. Les principales méthodes d'études sont la conductivité, l'acoustophorèse et la spectroscopie. De nombreux résulttats originaux sont présentés en couplant des approches théoriques nouvelles avec l'utilisation de techniques déjà eprouvées.

En physique, on nomme "interface" la surface qui sépare deux milieux de compositions différentes et qui ne se mélangent pas. La surface de l'océan, d'une bulle de savon ou d'une goutte de pluie sont donc des interfaces. Etudier les lois qui gouvernent le mouvement de ces interfaces permet de percer à jour un grand nombre de phénomènes qui vont de la vie courante à l'astrophysique: la formation des bulles de savon, l'impact des gouttes d'encre sur le papier d'une imprimante, la "marche" de certains insectes sur l'eau, mais aussi certaines approches de la fusion nucléaire contrôlée ou l'explosion des étoiles massives en supernovae. Dans ce séminaire de vulgarisation, je débuterai par une introduction générale sur la physique des interfaces et la dynamique des fluides associée. Je presenterai ensuite un projet scientifique mené conjointement au laboratoire FAST de l'UPMC et au Département de Physique de la CWRU de Cleveland (USA), basé sur la lévitation magnétique (création d'une gravité artificielle à l'aide de champs magnétiques de forte puissance). Grâce à ce projet, nous espérons mieux comprendre certaines instabilités fondamentales des interfaces, dont l'instabilité de Rayleigh-Taylor qui se trouve au coeur de la fusion nucléaire contrôlée..

L’impact des sites pollués sur l’environnement est une question sociétale d’actualités. L’étude de ces milieux par des méthodes de prospection géophysique permet notamment de localiser les zones polluées, de caractériser ces milieux, et de suivre les panaches de pollution. Cette conférence a pour objectif de présenter à partir d’exemples, l’activité récente sur ces thèmes.