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Where the wind takes you: Adventures of a wind turbine engineer
AARON IS A WIND TURBINE APPRENTICE and now works 100m up in the air in remote wind farms in Scotland, Texas and Australia. He falls out of a wind turbine, crashes company cars, almost drowns, stops a turbine with a shotgun, escapes lightning storms and has to share his cramped work environment with his colleague's bowel movements. And that's just the day job.
Amazingly, all of the stories told through Aaron and technicians he meets are all true from people working in wind past and present. The after-work escapades of bored men from all over the world left to their own devices with company credit cards leads to Aaron getting into scrapes that he hadn't bargained for. Is Aaron tough enough to work in wind?
Who is this book
The book is a quick read, and geared towards men that have a passing interest in renewables, toilet humour or engineering. Where the wind takes you is funny, vulnerable and educational. Follow “Aaron” as he tries to find his footing on the ladder rungs of an industry which has had to grow up too fast in order to meet the challenge of climate change.
About the author
Alex Pucacco has worked in the wind industry since he graduated in 2011. Green as grass, he set out to craft an engineering career with the modest long-term goal of getting to a position to pee off the top of a wind turbine. With more luck than brains, he was sent around the world to consult with wind farm site managers and technicians on their problems, and in the process, collected stories from this fledgling industry. These now form this book Where the wind takes you, which gives an unprecedented insight into what it is really like to work 100 metres in the air, unsupervised, with no toilet, in a predominantly male industry. Wind energy was started in the 1970s in the garages of engineering hippies and now has grown to a utility scale energy market employing over 1.25 million people worldwide in 2020. This book will do for the wind industry what Paul Carter’s Don’t tell my mother I work on the oil rigs did for the oil industry.
Amazingly, all of the stories told through Aaron and technicians he meets are all true from people working in wind past and present. The after-work escapades of bored men from all over the world left to their own devices with company credit cards leads to Aaron getting into scrapes that he hadn't bargained for. Is Aaron tough enough to work in wind?
Who is this book
The book is a quick read, and geared towards men that have a passing interest in renewables, toilet humour or engineering. Where the wind takes you is funny, vulnerable and educational. Follow “Aaron” as he tries to find his footing on the ladder rungs of an industry which has had to grow up too fast in order to meet the challenge of climate change.
About the author
Alex Pucacco has worked in the wind industry since he graduated in 2011. Green as grass, he set out to craft an engineering career with the modest long-term goal of getting to a position to pee off the top of a wind turbine. With more luck than brains, he was sent around the world to consult with wind farm site managers and technicians on their problems, and in the process, collected stories from this fledgling industry. These now form this book Where the wind takes you, which gives an unprecedented insight into what it is really like to work 100 metres in the air, unsupervised, with no toilet, in a predominantly male industry. Wind energy was started in the 1970s in the garages of engineering hippies and now has grown to a utility scale energy market employing over 1.25 million people worldwide in 2020. This book will do for the wind industry what Paul Carter’s Don’t tell my mother I work on the oil rigs did for the oil industry.
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2023
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April 23, 2024
Fun book related to wind turbine technicians and their everyday life. Helps to better understand their job in the whole industry and to gain a different perspective. Easy read, although not a child-friendly language.
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