Comments on: New Wind Farm Causing Problems for Doppler Radar

By: bill

bill — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:24:27 +0000

one wind mill is not the problem, and you cannot simply block it out, the blade tips travel at over 180 mile per hour, dozens of windmills overcome the processing of radars and it blocks everything going less than 180 miles per hour in a big shadow zone behind the windmill. They also put out a lot of electromagnetic noise that raises the noise floor in general reducing the overall sensitivity of radars that are close by(this would only occur within a mile or so of the radar. )

By: justin

justin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:21:43 +0000

This is more a national security issue. Windmills ability to make large amounts of land unreadable is perfect information for terrorists to lead a strike from.

By: Henk Daalder

Henk Daalder — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:31:20 +0000

The radar operators make a big fool of themselves.
Radar images are processed in computers very heavily.
Every single radar has a problem area, the center of the image, where the radar is. This shows in the black image at the bottom.
The reflections from that area come in to quick to be usable for the radarsystem
Smart radar operators use the image from other nearby radars to patch the hole with a piece from that other radar.
They do this already and should also apply this technique to new problem area’s.

The marine have this system on line for several years already, to make their ships radar system more robust, and have them operate as a team in the fleet.

By: Stork

Stork — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:52:38 +0000

Why have this argument? The wind turbines do not work without wind. What are we supposed to do, fire up the coal/gas burner or nuke when the wind stops? You could cover every possible site in the State of Wisconsin with a turbine and it would be like pissing in the Mississippi river. We need to develop clean burn technology and nuclear power and forget this nonsense.

By: Wings is an Idiot

Wings is an Idiot — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:46:21 +0000

Amanda is correct, the radar signature of a fixed object, once input, can be blocked AND still read surrounding prevailing conditions.

Fear mongering on the part of WINGS sounds like something from the Bush era.

By: WINGS

WINGS — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:17:56 +0000

So you think it is OK Amanda, to put lives at risk by “turning off” radar areas. Do you think of the medical flight teams that depend on radars for fixed wing, and radar as reported for helicopter flights? Turbines move, buildings do not. They have to continue to monitor these areas/radar to keep the people safe and to give flights in the area the correct information.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:38:55 +0000

If they can block out buildings on radars why can they block out these? all they have to do is set it to register where they are located and not read them.

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