To interfere with the profits of oil companies too?

...and fucking shit up. What a cast of misfits, grifters, and know-nothings, not to mention foreign agents mangling as much of America as possible.

Merry Christmas seems rather out of place these days. Hard to be "Merry" when this nation is being torn apart.

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By people who voted for republicans. Trump should be in jail. John roberts has no integrity. People who voted for trump will not take responsibility for their actions. Trump is free and John roberts could not possibly care less.

In Palm Springs. We’re going to Arizona again at the end of January and plan to spend two nights there and really enjoy the area more. And hope to take the tram!

My brother & his best friend, both only occasional beer drinkers, hiked around a bit, then each had a beer. Got seriously looped in record time at that altitude.

But thanks for the heads up!

Years ago, my late wife and I took it, and had supper at the restaurant up top. It was dark when we descended, and as we crossed the almost empty, off-season parking lot to my Miata the local mob of raccoons spied us. Patty was terrified as the horde surrounded us, followed us to our vehicle, chittering and purring. I got to play heroic defender as I opened her door, only to have one of the brigands hop in after her...and onto her lap. Naturally, I scooped the beast up, gave it a good petting and offered it back to her to see if she'd like to pet it.
For some reason, she declined.

It might be a little harder to gin up an excuse to go after those, but I'm sure his goons will find a way.

They don't say why, but it is implied that the knuckle-draggers convinced MidAmerican to shut it down.

Sun-Zia wind farm in NM which should be completed in 2026 has over 900 wind turbines. When finished, it will be the largest wind farm in US with 3.5 GW.

Unfortunately- I have some Western Spirit Wind Farm 90 ft tall wind transmission lines on the lower end of my property. That wind farm has 377 turbines.

But they are still impressive. I did a little work on a 265 turbine "farm" about a decade ago.

Iowa has over 6000 turbines which produces about two thirds of our electricity.

I knew someone in a rural IA town whose municipal electricity was owned by the citizens of the town (SOCIALISM!) . The wind turbines around them produce more electricity than can use so they sell the excess to the grid. Their elec bills are very low. When people's gas furnaces need to be replaced, they use electric ones.

going along with every insane policy Dump enforces.

And dumpie goes along because they're paying him under the table?

Fossil fuel execs openly bought him with a $1 billion campaign “donation” in ‘24.

No one should be surprised by their shenanigans at this point.

"It’s a criminal enterprise."
~Malcolm Nance

large commercial vessels (whose numbers far outweigh off-shore windturbs).

I can unequivocally say they are full of shit.

I was at a radar station on the NC coast. We did not have any interference with anything at or slightly above ground level once you got about half a mile out.

conventional radar, or OTH ABM system radars? Big difference.

Decades ago I used to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of Over the Horizon radars. They could definitely be affected by wind turbines.

Currently, AI sez:

Actually 2: one search the other was a height finder. If I remember correctly the OTH that the USAF played with in the 80’s and early 90’s was ionosphere bouncing vs. ground propagation.
As for ABM, those radars look straight out from the fan to detect an incoming missile as it crests the horizon. I worked ABM in Thule.

Also, when an object does not move, and the item you are looking for is moving, it becomes easy to detect. If our NATSEC radars are not affected by oil platforms they wouldn’t be affected by wind towers.

that causes an issue? OTOH, the blades are typically composed of fibreglass which might not reflect radar waves(?).

It sounds like BS but it is not inconceivable IMO that some types of radar might be affected.

Then every single prop driven aircraft would be stealth. No the rotation of the blade does not affect radar.

Things to keep in mind, radar waves are frequencies that travel at about the speed of light, I believe it was around 186,000 miles per second. The bases of either an aircraft or was wind power blade travel significantly slower so the waves of the radar go between the blades.

This is an oversimplified explanation.

"If that were the case, every prop driven aircraft would be stealth"?? I am saying that the movement of the blades may interfere/react with the radar so how does that translate into prop driven aircraft becoming stealthy? Are you saying that movement of the wind turbine blades would, if that were the case, make them "stealthy" (not visible to radar)?

And, "waves of radar go between the blades" because they travel significantly slower than radar?? Well yes, I would think that would be the case for some of the radar but why would that would that preclude some portion of it being reflected by the (moving) blades?

Was that the blades do not affect radar waves at all.

But don’t take my word for it. Although the AI stated above says it could, research something besides AI.

Cheers

.... from ChatGPT. I know a lot of people don't like or trust AI, including me in some areas, but I have found ChatGPT to be pretty accurate in RF and propagation areas.

If a radar system doesn’t have a human, then by all means it could cause interference. When I worked with BWMEWS we had to block moon rise because the computer would register it as a large scale missed launch with an endpoint within the CONUS.

Same principle..

The other thing it doesn’t mention is range. OTH systems detect between 500 and 2,000 miles from the array. I looked up the projects that are impacted and the furthest from shore is around 30 miles.

I don’t want to argue about my real life experience and some artificial intelligence answers.

Cheers,

... it BURNS!

He's our biggest threat to national security.

… wait for it…

Denmark (national security risk because Greenland?)

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I know this because I invested in their company in the early 2020’s when we were living in New London, CT. Things were going well under President Joe Biden then. The picture on the front page of the NYT today is looking north, up the Thames river in New London, at the turning Oates that are sitting dormant because of the asshole in chief:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-farms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share]

I think he is going to declare war on Denmark. These people are so far out of control…

Immediately after Gaza is rebuilt and Venezuela has a new government.

Trump is pissed at Denmark for not handing over Greenland as well as his nutso obsession with wind turbines.

Each have invested many billions. I think the Denmark one is already mostly online supplying over 400,000 families

…tilting at windmills.

What an absolute lunatic.

But since there is no Department of War, their conclusions can be ignored.

If *anything* they may produce ground clutter.

I fucking work in the biz

He just ain’t right

ETA: what about all the towers in the middle of the country? Don't they cause interference?

Funny,it works just fine in a commercial aircraft doing 450 knots.

I bet Big Oil, is laughing all the way, to the bank. As former a radar operator/'tech' in the military, let's just say that is a large load, of 'bull feces'.

and nausea!

Damn, let the lawsuits begin!

Hey, Tubby, what if the next guy doesn't like coal fired power plants? Or golf courses? Your ox can be gored, too

The reverberations will be felt worldwide. Alongside all the cheering it may well shake up plate tectonics.

Which is prohibited by tge constution. Even if no new leases are given, and unused ones revoked, these should continue as the capital has been comitted. Yes if there are serious and studies of actual risks then a shutdown might be warrented, but this is an excuse papered onto an agenda.

in the Gulf of "America" should be shut down for the same reason

He's insane.

The bastards been pissed at wind since Scotland told him what to go do with himself

Anything to get dirty coal again and freely pollute the air! Maybe more people will die at his hands , he doesn’t care!

A green agenda is a bad thing???

Trying to save and protect our planet is a bad thing???

Maybe it’s just that trump is the one who’s green. Green with ENVY.

exactly as other radar reflectors do.
Since the windmills are in fixed locations, they will not be seen as moving objects. They are not high enough or solid enough for boats and planes to hide behind. This is obvious BS put out by some of the stupidest people to have ever lived.

Or something...

Trump clueless as to our real threats.