nvisionist Bird Detector, Countries Align for Minerals, Rosemary Talks Epoxy Recycling, Ørsted Trains NJ

Wind energy strives to work alongside nature as Greece-based nvisionist leverages Artificial Intelligence with their bird detection and avoidance equipment. Joel explains the latest in vision tech and how rapid development is lowering costs. Australia seems poised to benefit as multiple countries try to find alternate sources for critical minerals. Rosemary brings great insight into this shift. Danish researchers invented a new method of recycling wind turbine blade epoxies - what does Rosemary think of the effort? Ørsted takes the initiative in New Jersey to train future employees for the renewable future. 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 165 Allen Hall: So, Joel, have you seen this news article about this lady that got lost in Australia and lived on lollipops and wine?  Joel Saxum: No, but it sounds like a, an ex-girlfriend of mine.  Allen Hall: Is she in Australia? No, I don't, I don't know where she is. Allen Hall: It's a national, well, international story cause I saw it here in America. But this poor lady was was gonna go visit her mother and it threw a bottle of wine outta the car and then got sidetracked and got stuck in the mud and, It was outside cell phone coverage, so she couldn't reach anybody. She was, she was hanging out there for a couple of days and she lived on lollipops and wine until they tracked her down via helicopter. That's amazing. People in Australia are tough. Joel Saxum: It wouldn't be a bad way to go out, you know, as long as it's a good bottle of wine, I guess. Allen Hall: But the crime scene will look kind of weird, like, what's all these lollipop wrappers and this wine bottle here? Is there one bottle of wine? Yeah. You know, you never know, but all the people I know from Australia are. Pretty darn tough. So this is another example of Australians that survive some of the worst conditions. And speaking of worst conditions, we have a, a packed show for you this week. We're not sure how it's gonna turn out. Actually. It's been kind of a struggle to get this episode out. But if we do. Talk about this week bird detection system that was highlighted in PES Wind and in Copenhagen. So I've seen it in two different places recently. So we talk about a camera system that detects birds from pretty far out, and I actually identifies the, the species of the bird. So really interesting technology there. And then we look at really the separation of China on the rare earth minerals from the rest of the world. And how that's affecting all the other countries involved. Australia being one of them in the middle of this because they do have some of those minerals and processing and who's gonna do all that processing? There's a new place in the United States. It looks like it's gonna do some railroad processing and. Now everybody's scrambling at the same time to look for minerals that are just the byproduct of mine waste. So not only we pulling outta China, we're like scraping the bottom of the barrel in some cases to find where these minerals are gonna come from. So, really interesting discussion about that with Rosemary this week. So  Joel Saxum: then we're gonna talk about the University of Ahu. Pioneering another way to break down epoxies. Now, in the last few months, if you follow this as we do, you've heard from Vestas that they've got a solut...