Military stealth technology may help solve wind turbine problem

[champu 1]

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2493271

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The development of a "stealth" turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers say. The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in Britain. Now the Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S is experimenting with stealth technology, developed to help warplanes escape notice, to reduce a turbine blade's radar signature -- the size of the blip it makes on an air traffic controller's radar screen. "These tips of the blades travel at about -- the same speed as a light aircraft," said Ian Chatting, head of research in Britain for Vestas, the world's largest wind energy company. "So you can see this blip and the radar operators don't know if it is a light aircraft ... whether it is real."

I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

[riggerrob 643]

The disadvantage of "stealthy" wind turbines is that fewer civilian aircraft radars will see them and more civilian airplanes might hit wind turbines.
What a civilian airplane was doing - that low - will be "difficult" to explain.

[rushmc 23]

champu

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2493271

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The development of a "stealth" turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers say. The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in Britain. Now the Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S is experimenting with stealth technology, developed to help warplanes escape notice, to reduce a turbine blade's radar signature -- the size of the blip it makes on an air traffic controller's radar screen. "These tips of the blades travel at about -- the same speed as a light aircraft," said Ian Chatting, head of research in Britain for Vestas, the world's largest wind energy company. "So you can see this blip and the radar operators don't know if it is a light aircraft ... whether it is real."

I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

What it will not solve is the noise and the flicker that is making people sick

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[GeorgiaDon 380]

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I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

I see what you did there.
Don

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Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996)
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

[shropshire 0]

Still wont cure their biggest problem ..

They are SHIT and producing energy.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[davjohns 1]

champu

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2493271

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The development of a "stealth" turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers say. The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in Britain. Now the Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S is experimenting with stealth technology, developed to help warplanes escape notice, to reduce a turbine blade's radar signature -- the size of the blip it makes on an air traffic controller's radar screen. "These tips of the blades travel at about -- the same speed as a light aircraft," said Ian Chatting, head of research in Britain for Vestas, the world's largest wind energy company. "So you can see this blip and the radar operators don't know if it is a light aircraft ... whether it is real."

I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

That's because it'll never fly. The pilot program will crash and burn.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[champu 1]

Well, if nothing else this thread went undetected for almost four years.

[skypuppy 1]

rushmc

***http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2493271

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The development of a "stealth" turbine blade, based on military technology, may help overcome the problem of wind farms interfering with aviation radar systems, its developers say. The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in Britain. Now the Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S is experimenting with stealth technology, developed to help warplanes escape notice, to reduce a turbine blade's radar signature -- the size of the blip it makes on an air traffic controller's radar screen. "These tips of the blades travel at about -- the same speed as a light aircraft," said Ian Chatting, head of research in Britain for Vestas, the world's largest wind energy company. "So you can see this blip and the radar operators don't know if it is a light aircraft ... whether it is real."

I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

What it will not solve is the noise and the flicker that is making people sick

won't help the bats or birds killed either.

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[Andy9o8 2]

davjohns

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I caught wind of this today. I think these stories rarely show up on people's radar.

That's because it'll never fly. The pilot program will crash and burn.

Ping me if you get further info.

[DanG 1]

We're just going to end up going around, and around, and around on this.

- Dan G

[GeorgiaDon 380]

champu

Well, if nothing else this thread went undetected for almost four years.

That's because it was a stealth thread, of course.

I wonder if it was really riggerrob who resurrected this one. I recall someone else, who hasn't been active for a while (as far as I know), who made a practice of spoofing other posters and digging up ancient threads.

Don

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Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996)
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

[Rick 67]

champu

Well, if nothing else this thread went undetected for almost four years.

totally under the radar

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[Andy9o8 2]

Rick

***Well, if nothing else this thread went undetected for almost four years.

totally under the radar

http://www.bestcareanywhere.net/img/radar2.jpg