Does the Massive WindRunner Plane Make Sense? Plus CLS Wind’s Innovative Assembly System

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Allen, Rosemary and Phil debate whether WindRunner, a huge airplane proposed to transport wind turbine blades offshore, makes sense for the industry. Plus they discuss an article from the latest edition of PES Wind Magazine from CLS Wind about their lifting platform used to assemble wind turbines. Allen and Phil learn that Rosemary is a five-time Wheel of Fortune champion! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Do you have game shows in Australia, Rosemary? Is that a thing? Rosemary Barnes: Hey, I was a five time carryover champion on Wheel of Fortune. Allen Hall: What? Rosemary Barnes: What whoa. Rosemary, what was that? I was a five time carryover champion on Wheel of Fortune. I don't know if they, is it the same in the US when you win an episode, you get to come back the next day? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I did that five times. I was on six, six episodes. Allen Hall: How much money did you win? Rosemary Barnes: It's not as rich as, I didn't win any cash. There's no cash in the Australian one. And it's not as rich as the U S one. I think I won like 20, 30, 000 worth of stuff. Yeah, it was pretty, pretty good as a uni student. I want to, Bed and like saucepans and a couple of lazy boy recliners, one that had massaging in a fridge, and one a houseboat cruise one how did I electric guitar what else did I want? Oh, and all sorts of stuff. So much. Allen Hall: Did this really happen, Rosemary? Rosemary Barnes: This really happened when I was at uni. Allen Hall: Why we've not seen video of this? Why is this not on YouTube? I don't understand. Rosemary Barnes: I have a VHF of it. I have been thinking that I should chase down the studio and see if I can get the recordings. So I'm sure that they're archived, but I don't know how easy it is to get your hands on it. Allen Hall: Our producer needs this video badly. We have to get this back on the internet. Come on. Really? I didn't know that. It's not in your CV. Why wasn't that in your CV? Rosemary Barnes: It used to be, it did literally used to be in my CV. Wheel of Fortune couldn't have slipped in there somewhere? It's probably not anymore, but for a very long time, it was on my CV in other. And it was one it's a good way to see if people read your CV because there's no way you're reading that and not mentioning it at the interview. And two, when people did read it, then it's a really great icebreaker, you know, cause it's just Oh, okay. Before we get started, we just have to chat about that. And then it's, you know, it's a fun little thing to talk about and you then, you know, then you're friends. And then the rest of the interview goes very nicely. Okay. That's like a hot point. Pro tip for interviews is include something like that on there that will you know, be a way to start the conversation and have everyone be relaxed before the interview. Allen Hall: Okay. I think Rosemary's been holding back. We've been burying our soul every week and Rosemary's. Keeping the Wheel of Fortune thing under wraps. Philip Totaro: Now, I mean, the only thing I could put on my CV is that I used to live next to Rick James. I mean, what the, you know, like Rosemary Barnes: Allen can put on that he's married to a real rocket scientist. So that's a good one. Allen Hall: This is true. It's sort of guilt by association there. A startup called Radia founded by MIT trained rocket scientist,