[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: '"Stealth" wind turbine blade may end radar problem'

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[For background on this issue, see 
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Renewables.pdf. - LS]

"Stealth" wind turbine blade may end radar problem


By Stuart McDill
Reuters
January 27, 2010

LONDON - 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 said.

The issue of turbine blades confusing radar operators accounts for 
around half the objections to wind farm planning applications in Britain.

Now, Vestas Wind Systems 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.


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For the entire article, see
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60Q4T020100127

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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