[Hunton Peck]

The Religion of Gaia screws up again.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I remember reading somewhere they also kill 400k birds annually, not to mention other species.

BP kills a few birds in an oil spill and they get sued for millions.

Go figure....

[coloradan]

That’s ok. For just a few billion dollars I could build a (single) stealth windmill. Of course I’d also need many millions of dollars a year to guard it to keep the technology from falling into our adversary’s hands, and also a few six packs to pay the locals to shoot migrating songbirds so they don’t accidentally damage the stealth coating on the blades. Seems entirely reasonable in an effort to get a few thousand dollars per year worth of electricity, don’t you think?

[steve86]

The wind farms very definitely screw up the NEXRAD weather radars around here. Creates an entirely false doppler pattern which apparently isn’t consistent and hard to filter out with software.

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say USA man should build windfarm in Iran.

[org.whodat]

Radar, another horse an buggy technology coming to an end, what is wrong with the frigging GPS locator's.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

General Ripper: "Mandrake, we can let those windmill deprive us of our precious radar signatures."

[DJ MacWoW]

Click The Pic

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams

[BfloGuy]

A wind farm in the hills southeast of Buffalo shows up as a permanent blip on weather radar. It really annoys me — I want my radar clean, dammit!

[LisaS]

Dave Belote, cited in the article, is misrepresenting the effectiveness of the Scan-Step technology now being field tested at the Shepherds Flat wind project. By 2008, 39% of our long range radar was negatively impacted by wind turbines. We have twice the capacity of wind now installed and the problem is NOT resolved. Meanwhile, our taxes are picking up the bill to degrade our radar resolution in the name of the green dream. That little ‘blank spot’ Belote refers to in on the radar map is big enough to fly a space shuttle through.

[jwalsh07]

Murphy always rears his ugly head.