[Milsurplus] Brouhaha over Navy ROTHR radar

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 Mar 2017 at 20:52, Hubert Miller wrote:

>     I wasn´t aware of this story and i don´t know how i missed it when it appeared in 
>     January of this year.
>     Possible incompatibility of Navy "Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar" and new North 
>     Carolina wind farm being planned.
>     Wind farm to be 14 miles away; with 50-story tall towers; some say this will interfere 
>     with Navy radar. Navy says "not so",
>     conservatives say "it´s so"; opinion seems to divide mostly by political leanings. 
>     Apparently old specification for wind
>     farm distance from ROTHR was 28 miles.
>     http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c8718e4a1244b9294e3db6c76933cda/navy-wind-farm-
>     opposed-gop-lawmakers-wont-harm-radar

My reading of that article seems to say that the Navy simply doesn't yet know whether or not 
it would be a problem, but bowed to the environmentalists in the Obama camp.

Be that as it may, and although I have forgotten where and when I read the following in a long 
technical discussion I came upon long before the last election, wind farms are NOT 
economically efficient. They cost far more to build and maintain than their electricity is worth. 
ALL have been heavily subsidized.

Then there is the HUGE problem of how to handle such horrendously variable output as the 
wind varies from none to too much. Much of it has to be "dumped" at times, despite the 
"buffering" if any, of their huge battery packs.

Many wind generators are surrounded by piles of dead birds, too. I watched one slice a 
bald-eagle out of the sky near here once. There is a good sized hill in Whitman County 
Washington not too far from here which is covered with huge 3-bladed monstrosities one can 
see for miles. Jacobs would be whirling over in his grave.

And lastly, their visual impact is tremendous, and IMHO, all bad. They are just plain ugly and 
too damned big.

I don't mind solar as much....although someone had BETTER get a handle on those cursed 
charge-controllers! The RFI most of those things generate is absolutely amazing, and no one 
seems to be concerned about it other than the few hams being harrassed by them.

Of course, then there was Solandra...

Ken W7EKB



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