Comments on: Air Force Wind Turbines at Radar Station Convert Nay-Sayers to Cheerleaders http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/12/air-force-wind-turbines-save-money-cut-pollution/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: James Van Damme http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/12/air-force-wind-turbines-save-money-cut-pollution/#comment-137204 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:34:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43883#comment-137204 The Cape Cod radar looks up into space. The turbines are behind it, and the radar can’t see them. Air route surveillance radars look 360 degrees at the horizon; there is nowhere for turbines to hide, since they and radars are sited on hilltops for visibility and wind. So you need fancy signal processing and upgraded hardware to filter out as much interference as you can; you’ll still be degraded over the turbine farm. Best to just get a newer, better radar, but that costs big bucks.

They should put up turbines at Shemya, Alaska, where the Cobra Dane radar looks into space, and the wind blows constantly at 25-50 knots. As far as I know, they’re still running megawatts of diesel generators with oil shipped in by barge. Since 1978.

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