Broken Molds And Layoffs: The Turbulent State of LM and GE Vernova

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

A 107-meter mold at the LM factory in Sherbrooke, France has been damaged and LM in Denmark faces significant layoffs. Researchers at TU Delft develop noise-reducing "Muteskin" technology. The U.S wind industry suffers from shortage of skilled welders. 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: Alright, Joel, so we seem to have eaten our weight in barbecue in the last three days. Joel Saxum: Yes. Allen Hall: That is a literal fact. Joel Saxum: Now should I tell you the perfect barbecue plate order? If you're in Texas and you're getting barbecued, this is what you want. You want a two meat plate, you want brisket, you want a jalapeno cheese sausage, you want fried okra, and some mac and cheese. That's it. Allen Hall: We were sitting with some Danish folks last night and trying to explain what okra was or is. And then I thought, I betcha Rosemary doesn't know what okra is either. Have you had okra before, Rosemary? Rosemary Barnes: Oh, we have it. Yeah, I haven't eaten it a lot, but you can, yeah, it's in the supermarkets, usually. Yeah. Allen Hall: Does it have a taste? Can you describe what the taste of okra is for those who have been uninitiated? Rosemary Barnes: It's not something that I eat often. I've tasted it, but I I don't even really remember. I know that it gets if you don't do it well, it gets slimy. That's its biggest crime. It has to be well cooked, otherwise it's a slimy mess. Allen Hall: Now. So we went to our restaurant and Joel and I didn't say anything to our waitress. It was a nice restaurant. It was a barbecue restaurant, of course. We're in Texas. But the waitress came up and immediately associated Joel with Texas, even though he's from Wisconsin and then associated me with being an outsider. Now, I was born in Nebraska. I'm a lot closer to Texas than Joel, but I was seen as being an East Coast person. Immediately, I thought, oh my gosh, I think the Massachusetts is starting to show on me. Joel Saxum: It's the glasses. I think. Allen Hall: Is it the glasses? You think that makes me look Danish? Rosemary Barnes: Don't you have glasses too, Joel? I'm looking at you both. Joel Saxum: Allen's looks way too smart. That's what it is. Or they can smell the east coast on you. I don't know what it was, but she knew right away. She's like, where are you from? Northerner. Yankee. Allen Hall: Rosemary has been jet setting all over the world, and, which is awesome, but When she's gone, then we have all these questions. We just hold, hold until she comes back. And meanwhile everything had happened at LM at the same time, and Rosemary wasn't even around to, to ask what's going on. But let's talk about the most important one first right now, which is that in Sherbrooke, France, the LM factory 107 meter mold was broken somehow. And it's really thrown a kink into the works over at Sherbrooke, because There's not that many mulches like you can pull out a spare mold and start making blades Do you have you heard what actually happened in Sherberg? Did they? How do they damage this mold? And how would you damage a mold? Maybe importantly is like, how could you damage a mold like this? Rosemary Barnes: Oh, there's all sorts of ways that you can damage a mold. Obviously you can drop something heavy on it or drive something into it or that they do eventually wear out though. It doesn't sound like that.