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"“Bloody hell, it’s enormous!” That was my first reaction on seeing a new wind
turbine blade at close quarters, outside its factory in the city of Baoding,
China’s renewable energy powerhouse. That visit some years ago brought home to
me the sheer scale of the technology. It was an impression confirmed later,
gazing out from the north Kent coast at the vast London Array offshore farm,
and then standing under a towering turbine as it spun its slow circles high
above a maize field in Germany. Scale and grace.
But there was one glaring absence from all my marvelling: people. Out there,
these mighty engines seemed to stand alone. Which, of course, is nonsense.
Because they wouldn’t be there in the first place, let alone keep spinning out
reliable megawatts of power, if they didn’t have a dedicated crew of humans
involved at every stage: planning, installing, laying cables, sinking steel and
concrete, fine-tuning soft- and hardware every step of the way – and caring for
each other as they do so, in some pretty challenging, sometimes remote,
environments.
It’s time to put them back in the picture. With that in mind, here are glimpses
of three people who keep the winds of change blowing strong."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
