Tech group claims low-cost fix to radar, windfarm conflict

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Tech group claims low-cost fix to radar, windfarm conflict

John Walko
(02/28/2008 8:57 AM EST)

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The proposed solution, based on the company's holographic radar technology, has been developed and deployed across a range of applications including ice penetration, automotive and through-wall surveillance equipment. Fill-in radar sensors would be sited at the wind farms themselves to cover the shadowed zone.

They will be capable of eliminating the gaps and erroneous signals in air- traffic-control and other surveillance radar coverage caused by wind turbine blades.

The company says this approach is a major enhancement of much shorter-range tactical radars such as prism200, designed to cope with a cluttered through-wall scenario. It will reduce the complexity and cost of the required radar sensors, making the system an affordable component of a wind farm installation.

Dr Oswald stresses the solution would be extremely cost-effective, especially in view of the cost of losing available wind energy, or even the public enquiries which stem from the process of developing new wind turbine sites.