Somebody ‘splain this to me pleez
WTH??
Could be those guys have ran out of things to do.
Radar is straight beam type of radio, and bounces on whatever it’s aimed at.
A beam searching for airplanes, is not going to “see” a device on the ground.
It’s time for book review.I can see how the turbines can cause a blind window, this would explain the MOD stipulation of line of sight of any radar, and the gennies NOT shielded, wtf, try that transgression of our wireless telegraphy act at home. These things are total bullshit, only viable if they steal money from the public by stealth. Perhaps if they hang an enviromentalist or treehugger from every blade on every windmill it will help?
Posted by Chris Edwards
02/05/2008 at 05:49 PM
I could see it if the windmill masts are noticeably taller than the radar masts, and the radar was close enough to the wind farm. In such a case I could picture a wind farm acting as an enormous area of chaff, blocking everything in its shadow. But I’d also think it would only affect detection of aircraft that were both close to the wind farm and at low altitude, otherwise the angle from radar dish to aircraft would be too steep for the windfarm to affect it.
That’s just one man’s guess, though. I worked with a lot of radar techs when I was in the Navy, but I don’t claim to be one.D-d-d-does this mean Ted Kennedy was right???
Posted by cobolpoet
02/05/2008 at 10:17 PM
To make it simple, They are objecting to radar farms that are too close to the radar bases, but are overreacting, and saying that ALL wind farms are bad.
Generically, Of the farm is too close, RF from the generators is causing an adverse signal that is putting garbage into the outgoing and incoming signal from the antenna. When the signal gets back, it has static, which the filters at the station clean up, and can, probably 10-35% chance, strip away a ‘blip’ or, can even create a blip.
Remember, Radar is line of sight, which means that this hole may only be a couple of degrees, but the further you go out, the wider it is, and the closer the farm, the wider the hole. Also do not forget that the further out we radar signal is, the weaker it gets, the more the signal from the wind farm can degrade the signal, possibly taking away, or putting in targets. All you would have to do is keep said plane, which nowadays are being built with more composites and hard to spot anyway, is keep low and follow the wind farm interference.Bill
But correct me if I’m wrong, the farther away the wind farm is, the more likely triangulation from other radomes will make the whole point moot, right? I mean sure, weather radar may not have much overlap, but I’d think air search radar would…
Which would you rather fund? Wind power that may make a minor increase in risk? or Arab hate? No matter how you slice it, money spent on gas is going into the pockets ofthe people who fund terrorism.
Radar can be sited to counter the wind farm problem. The wind farms don’t need to be stopped.I could believe this… the blades on some of those turbines are the size of a football field. They’re also curved and spinning. It seems to me the reflected beams could easily bounce up into the airspace in all directions, not just in the windfarm’s RF shadow. BTW, a microwave oven has spinning blades to spray the RF around for even heating.
It’s typical of the Moonbats to see a problem. and then push any solution, even if the “solution” is ineffective or even counter-productive… Just because we “have to do something”.
I did a little research on wikipedia… My state of Michigan has about 10 million people. Serving them is about 18GW of electrical generating capacity. The biggest wind turbines are rated (generously) at 2MW. So to power Michigan with wind would take 9000 turbines. It’s just not practical except for isolated applications and tax dodges. I also worry about the audio noise of that many spinning blades.....
The whole idea is just tokenism.
I must admit that I find it a little amusing… in the western part of my home state of Texas lies the Permian Basin, a desert area near the southeast corner of New Mexico. And what is the primary driver of the economy out there? Oil. And where do they get their electricity? From several hundred square miles of wind farm, tapping the everlasting desert winds.
Yes, being so isolated, such low population density and so far inland, with wind pretty much 24/7/365, it *is* practical out there. I suppose the reason the Greenies never mention how successful it is is probably because those who most use that power use it to drill for more oil.
