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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D_I_R_T who wrote (5929)	2/28/2006 7:52:25 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

then land base wind mills will also be a problem

To: D_I_R_T who wrote (5929)	2/28/2006 7:54:46 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

From another poster. If a skipper is relying on radar solely for navigation in todays day and age, he should just drop anchor and wait the fog out. Just about every major shipping company uses GPS with some form of electronic charts. Most of the merchant ships I've rode have sophisticated charting systems integrated with GPS and auto-pilot. There is the issue of avoiding other contacts and radar is still very useful for that. But, I can't imagine slow moving wind turbines interfere much with those radar blips. Background images on land also interfere, should be ban churches or large buildings on the coast line as well? Once you chart the location of the turbines, it should be very easy to identify and work around any interference. We look like a society full of idiots when we go around in circles like this. "Let's get rid of oil and use renewable resources, oops, wind can't be worked out now". Beam me up Scotty! :-) Oh no, the beaming molecules might interfere with the ultraviolet light hitting the planet and cause a worlwide catastrophe!