Cranes venture to new heights, when will OEMs lease equipment?
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Should OEMs lease equipment? Philip Totaro says the better question is,?when will they??The idea may be more attractive to OEMs than it first appears. Crane safety is always important, and?new concepts in crane systems?should be more?efficient and economical, as well as safer. The Uptime crew discusses some of the?new designs?and RWE's recent investment in?WindSpider.?
Speaking of efficiency - in parts of Europe, the average age of a wind turbine is?15 years old. Now's the time to talk about?repowering,?and?how to fund it.?And speaking of funding -NREL will award?$2.9M?to manufacturers of small- and medium-scale wind turbine technology. See show notes for a list of manufacturers. Meanwhile, NASA is starting to think about wind turbines on?Mars.?Sure, there are some engineering challenges, but if we can grow potatoes on the red planet, we can do anything.???Listen Now?
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NASA planning wind farms on Mars?(really! they're?testing at the South Pole)
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P.S. Need to catch up on all the news, technologies, company moves, and policies related to wind? From Safety at Heights (the Petzl interview) to the future of blade analytics to how pitch problems can damage blades and why it's getting harder to insure wind turbines, find all the episodes here.