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Rosemary Barnes (0:00)

I was actually discussing this with somebody, how inappropriate it is to have such sensory overload at a conference that is mostly attended by engineers. And we came up with the idea that there should be a sensory deprivation room in there. You can just go in and reset and refill your social battery.

SPEAKER_2 (0:22)

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Allen Hall (0:36)

Welcome to The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm Allen Hall, here with Rosemary Barnes and Yolanda Padron. And first off, Rosemary is in Denmark in preparation to visit WindEnergy Hamburg.

Rosemary Barnes (0:50)

I am. I'm in Rinkoping, which is on the west coast of Jutland. Just took a train and hired a car from Copenhagen. Drove past a whole lot of wind turbines.

It's very nice to be back.

Allen Hall (1:04)

So the WindEnergy Hamburg event is the event, in my opinion. There's really two, right? WindEurope and WindEnergy Hamburg. HUSOM is a big event, but not of the scale of WindEnergy Hamburg. I think they're predicting 40-ish thousand people, probably, are going to come through the event. It's massive.

Have you been there before, Rosemary?

Rosemary Barnes (1:28)

I haven't. I've only been to WindEurope once. Other than that, I've been to some big composites conferences back when I was doing my PhD. But when I went to WindEurope last year, that was my first big WindEnergy conference, and I was so overwhelmed. I walked in the door, I saw the exhibition, within 90 seconds, all the energy had drained from my body, and I want to go home now.

So I've spent a couple of days in Copenhagen and surrounds, and that was really good. Lots of talking, lots of seeing stuff, and I'm sure we'll talk about that in a minute. But now, I have preemptively taken myself to a quiet corner of Denmark to just put my head down, and have some quiet activities, some nature. The nature is really nice over this part of Denmark. There's lots of like, I want to go for some long runs and sand dunes and heaths, and planning to drive up to Ørstedal, where there's a big wind turbine test center. I just want to see what's there, just out of pure geekiness, see what's there, because there's new stuff there, right? And there's often offshore wind turbines being tested. I don't know what's there. That will be cool to see. And yeah, I'm trying to put together a video about how wind turbines are tested. So that will be part of it. And yeah, potentially a good recording location. So yeah, just a bit of quiet time, trying to rest up ahead of next week, where I know that there will be just so many conversations. I love talking about wind energy, technology, and I love catching up with all people that I know, but I just, I'm not an extrovert, yeah, at best, an ambivert maybe, slightly introverted. I was actually discussing this with somebody, how inappropriate it is to have such sensory overload at a conference that is mostly attended by engineers. It's like we're not known for being really social people.

And we came up with the idea that there should be a sensory deprivation room in there, where you can just go in and get in one of those tanks or a soundproof booth.

So you can just go in and reset and refill your social battery. I think that that would be a real winner. I'm sure someone could charge money for that.

Well, you sell the sponsorship for like a million dollars because it's so popular and everyone's so grateful that it exists.

Allen Hall (4:04)

Well, Rosemary, if you want to talk to Rosemary, she's gonna be hanging around the Eologics ping-boot. No, she may be hiding, but she'll be somewhere near the Eologics ping-boot.

Yeah, you just listen for the Australian accent and a bunch of German accents, right? It's pretty easy to pick out, in my opinion.

Rosemary Barnes (4:21)

Austrian?

Allen Hall (4:22)

Oh yeah, Austrian too, yeah. So there's a ton of people, obviously, that we know are gonna be at Hamburg for the week. It starts Tuesday, I think it finishes on Friday.

Rosemary will be there, Matthew Stead will be there, our own Nikki Briggs from Weather Guard will be there. When you're running to them, say hi. Although Rosemary talks about not being so social, she's very social, so.

Rosemary Barnes (4:49)

That's my problem, is that I get really social and then I get exhausted, like absolutely exhausted.

Allen Hall (4:54)

Yeah.

Yes. So it'll be a fun time. I hope everybody has a good time on all the travels to and from are safely done. So go visit eLogix Ping. Our friends at CNC Onsite will also be there. They have some big announcements having to do with a new place in the United States. PES Wind will be there. I think Stephane's going to be there. So say hi to Stephane and pick up the newest copy of PES Wind. There's an article by Weather Guard in PES Wind. So go ahead and pick one of those up. And one of the items before we get too deep into the news this week, the SkySpecs forum. So if you work with SkySpecs or even if you don't, and no SkySpecs is obviously a huge drone inspection company doing CMS and vendor management and all the above, they're having their SkySpecs forum October 6th and 7th in Detroit at the MGM Grand, which is a magnificent place.