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It's the most impactful training seminar for safety I have ever been at. You want to Talk about what is all involved in the Thrive USA, Joel.
Joel Saxum: Yeah, it's a step change in training. It's experiential. I know that's a weird word, but Alan and I and Claire, our producer, went through this training in Boston a few months ago.
And we're sitting in the crowd and we're at tables with people from all kinds of different companies and levels of the company so that everybody's intermixed. And then all of a sudden, They're going through a little bit of a presentation and a few actors, real actors, like Screen Actors Guild, card carrying people come through the door and they're fighting and yelling at each other and going through the scenario.
And then all stop. There's someone that maintains the, that would be flow of the event. And they say, okay, what do you think about this? And you're getting engaged and you're thinking. And just talking about this right now, it reminded me of what happened while we were there. And I have goosebumps on my arms that are popping up because they're it's.
It hit me when we were there internally. I've never been through a training where I left in thinking like, wow, that was impactful. I am actually thinking about this. I'd like to action some of these things in my day to day life. We did breakout sessions. We talked through things. It was fantastic. So if you have the opportunity we would love to see you in Houston.
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Allen Hall: Yeah, we'll see you in Houston and the website for Active Training Team in the U. S. is ActiveTrainingTeam. us, so check that out.
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Allen Hall: In the latest PES Wind Magazine, it's Q4 of 2024. You can go online and read it yourself at peswind. com. Interesting article from DSHIP carriers, and DSHIP has designed a new carrier of blades. And it's really interesting because it's a new approach on how to move blades around offshore. And Joel, being our offshore expert, you want to explain these fun things about the D500 ship?
Joel Saxum: Yeah, I think that what we need to understand first is that we've been doing offshore wind for a long time. And we're ready for a step change. We're ready to see things turn over into new innovative techniques that are going to make things better. So when you talk shipping with anything, it's always about efficiency, fuel burn, how can we get things on offshore better and The the DSHP team has taken all of this into consideration and making a purpose built vessel just for transport, transporting wind turbine parts.
And when you say that offshore, usually that doesn't happen. A vessel is usually multi purpose because you want to make sure that you have a contract where someone can rent it out and have it on the lease for a long time and use it for multiple kinds of different things and transporting this or transporting that.
But what they've done here is made a vessel that's super efficient, that's specifically designed and built for optimum use for transporting wind turbine parts. So the hull has been optimized. The way you load things has been optimized. The way you unload things has been optimized even all the way down to how the crew gets around the vessel and what their walk times are in between areas of the vessel that they need to do their jobs.
That's crazy impressive. The other things that they've done is make sure that this thing is future proofed. And future proof means the next generation of fuels, whether we get to the point where we're using ammonia or hydrogen or some other kind of power the propulsion units in this vessel can be swapped over to what that next generation looks like.
The D Ship team in their new D 500 vessels, this is what they're calling this, they have taken some really innovative steps to making offshore wind in their part of the supply chain, More efficient and more cost effective.
Allen Hall: Yeah, it's a really interesting ship design. It's going to be built in China. But if you want to read more about this ship and all the things that DShip is up to, go to PESWind.
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Allen Hall: In a significant shift in data center power strategies, Major technology companies, energy companies are turning to, of all things, natural gas to bridge the power for these growing, power hungry artificial intelligence infrastructures, these data centers.
And Meta is probably the key one at the minute.