Published

2 years ago

December 24, 2024

Alice Rush

Protecting GE 2.X Blades from lightning damage

GE 2.X blades are experiencing excessive lightning damage. We know why this is happening, and we detailed the issues in a recent article in PES Wind magazine. Unless you’re involved in turbine blade design, the more immediate concern is what to do about it.

Here’s what you need to know.

Protecting GE 2.X Blades from lightning damage

Cost-effective Protection Against Lightning Damage

GE 2.X blades are experiencing damage about 1 in 10 lightning strokes – that’s five times the “normal” levels defined in IEC. It’s happening for a number of reasons involving tip shape, high speed, leading edge erosion and some other factors.

Lightning damage costs money – and in addition to downtime and repairs, it’s often not covered by insurance.

StrikeTape protects blades by directing lightning safely to the blades’ existing receptors. When lightning strikes, the best-case scenario is that it hits the receptors; that’s how the design is supposed to work.

StrikeTape is cost-effective, simple and fast to install. This video describes the simple four-step process. One tech, on ropes, a platform or on the ground during component exchange, can add StrikeTape to a blade in a matter of minutes.

StrikeTape is protecting more than 16,000 blades worldwide. Learn more about it here, watch the video, or just contact us for a consultation and to order now.

Share this with your Technicians!

When they watch the video they’ll understand the installation process and then they can enter to win a Yeti cooler and some other cool swag.

Why the GE 2.X?

As I explained in the PES Wind article, my first career experience was working for GE, and this is not a personal knock on the blades. It’s a known problem with the 2.X blades as I and others in the field have noted, repeatedly, and operators in the US midwest and western states are experiencing especially high losses from damage.

In talking to those who have installed StrikeTape, the results are immediate and clear – fewer strikes, dramatically less downtime and damages.

The Bottom Line?

Watch the video. Enter to win the Yeti. Give us a call if you have questions. Order StrikeTape and protect your blades.

https://weatherguardwind.com/protecting-ge-2-x-blades-from-lightning-damage/

Renewable Energy

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Published

10 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

All I can say about the me here is that personally I refused, against considerable pressure from my family, to indoctrinate my children into something I myself could not accept.

Is it actually “psychological abuse” to indoctrinate children into monotheistic religion? Whether to take it that far is an open question.

My parents, both atheists, sent my brother and me to Sunday School, as they thought it wrong to cut us off from a modality of growing up in America in the early 1960s. I don’t blame them, but again, it’s not something I was willing to replicate with my own children.

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Renewable Energy

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Published

13 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

In less than a month, we’re going to learn how many idiots are buying this socialism crap.

Sure, there are people who don’t know anything about the way people live in northern England, New Zealand, Costa Rica, etc. Most of these people couldn’t find these countries on this globe.

But how many can there possibly be?

Clearly, Republicans are desperate, but isn’t asking voters to believe that the Swedes have to rely on the government for their job, salary, and food a bit over-the-top?

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Renewable Energy

America in Collapse

Published

17 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

I got the meme here from a neighbor, but I wonder who actually wrote it. There is a ton of propaganda on social media suggesting that we need to normalize the sociopathic criminality of the U.S. president.

It’s true that not every election is an apocalypse, but 2024 was disastrous for the U.S. democracy.

Yes, the country did not end. But it took a giant leap towards authoritarianism.

Even that’s not the end of the world. Democracies fail with great frequency on this planet. I just never thought I’d be living in the biggest socio-political collapse in the last 2000 years.

In an average week, I meet quite a few travelers here from lands all around this planet. Their most common thoughts on what’s happening here: “We simply feel sorry for you.”