Rosie Barnes: Australian Blade Expert with Pardalote Consulting

Rosie Barnes is the CEO and Founder of Pardalote Consulting which is based in Canberra, Australia. Rosie holds a PhD in composite material structures and worked in blade design engineering at LM Wind Power focusing on blade de-icing systems. Rosie is known internationally for her Engineering with Rosie YouTube channel and co-hosting the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Pardalote Interview Allen Hall: I am Allen Hall, host of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Our guest today is Rosemary Barnes, founder and CEO of Pardalote Consulting. Pardalote is based in Canberra, Australia, and as we well know, Australia is a leader in renewable energy. Pardalote Consulting provides consulting services to wind developers, asset owners, and inventors, and Pardalote specializes in technical due diligence, technical. Assessments and patent evaluation. They have a deep understanding of the clean energy industry and are able to provide clients with accurate and unbiased information. Rosemary is also creative force and host of the widely popular. YouTube Channel Engineering with Rosie, and she is co-host of the world famous Uptime Wind Energy podcast. Rosemary, welcome to the program. Rosie Barnes:  Thank you. What a great intro. Your best. Your best ever.  Allen Hall: Well, Rosemary, we wanted to have you on the podcast because we've never highlighted your consulting business, which is extremely popular in Australia and around the world because you are one of the world's blade experts. You want to describe what Pardalote does, and I'll give a little intro there, but you can describe a little bit better than I can. Rosie Barnes: So we work with all kinds of energy transition technologies, not just wind. But I guess today we might as well focus on the, the wind energy part, all aspects of the technology development lifecycle. So that goes right from. Conceptual design all the way through to implementation and claims assessments.   Allen Hall: So, Rosemary, your background is in structural engineering, most particularly composite engineering for blades. Rosie Barnes: I did all of my degrees in Australia. I did one year of my undergraduate degree in the US at uc Davis. I, at the time, I had this idea I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. And UC Davis is a really good a school. So I went there and completed all of the core aerospace subjects in one year which was just a, a lot to do all at once, but also really fun. And I learned in the process that I didn't really want to be an aerospace engineer. I. Mostly 'cause I, I'm not so driven to work in defense, which is where most of the money is, but I am lucky enough that coincidentally all of the same science and, you know, analysis that you use for airplanes and spacecraft is very closely related to wind energy. So I went back to university and did a PhD, a structural design project on Yeah. Composite material structures specifically related to wind turbines. It was, yeah. Or new, new ways to design wind turbine blades and other complex composite structures. And then I handed that thesis in one day, and literally the next day I was on a plane to Denmark to go meet the team of a company. I had a job offer with. And yeah, I ended up accepting that and, and living in Denmark for five years.   Allen Hall: And you were working with LM Wind Power, which obviously is a huge company in terms of ...