Wind turbines create two problems for national security, flight safety, and marine rescue operations. The military is now concerned about one, but has worried about the other for years.
Don’t forget about Search and Rescue, also to be lost with the loss of Codar radar (also line of sight) used for the Ocean Observatory Systems for NOAA oil spills and plugged directly into Search and Rescue models. The USCG spokesperson on the WTRIM webinar in 2020 made clear, a one foot error in the (water) current height will equal a 24 km error in the hot zone to search for someone overboard. Then when you add in that the turbines at 1065 feet tall , helos will not be able to search at their usual 500 foot height but now at twice the height, means good luck to you if you are overboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgTZJDX0ycY&feature=youtu.be Starting at 1:01:20 And ppt here https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/07/f77/offshore-wind-turbine-radar-interference-mitigation-webinar-7-27-2020.pdf
Don’t forget about Search and Rescue, also to be lost with the loss of Codar radar (also line of sight) used for the Ocean Observatory Systems for NOAA oil spills and plugged directly into Search and Rescue models. The USCG spokesperson on the WTRIM webinar in 2020 made clear, a one foot error in the (water) current height will equal a 24 km error in the hot zone to search for someone overboard. Then when you add in that the turbines at 1065 feet tall , helos will not be able to search at their usual 500 foot height but now at twice the height, means good luck to you if you are overboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgTZJDX0ycY&feature=youtu.be Starting at 1:01:20 And ppt here https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/07/f77/offshore-wind-turbine-radar-interference-mitigation-webinar-7-27-2020.pdf
Below is the tasty fun too when the terminal radar at intermediate airports doesn’t work! They’ve known about this for years! And still, nada!. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/11/f80/offshore-wind-turbine-radar-interference-mitigation-webinar-10-26-2020.pdf