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Horseback riding in Argentina
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Argentina is the second largest country in South America. Sprawling geographically, from sub tropical in the north to almost subarctic in the southern tip, the western side of Argentina is separated from Chile by the stunning Andes mountain range - the variety is perfect for a horse riding holiday!
Horse Riding in Argentina
Hidden Trails have a large collection of excellent Argentinean horse riding holidays available – covering many different regions of Argentina. Close to Buenos Aires you will find riding clinics and horseback tours specializing in the great equestrian national pastime – Polo! The Cordoba region horse riding holidays offers Estancia style ranches, and wide open spaces for exploration and cattle wrangling. In Salta, you can join an authentic cattle drive and learn about the hardworking and fully-rewarding lifestyle of a gaucho. In the Corrientes we have more historic Estancia horseback vacations, with the vast grassland of this area perfect for long canters and gallops. Northern Patagonia is home to the most stunning National Parks and some unforgettable Andean horseback tour crossings into Chile. Southern Patagonia on the other hand is famous for its coastal National Parks and impressive glaciers.
About Argentina
There is more to Argentina than polo and the tango! Vast plains and deserts, glistening lakes, thundering glaciers and the greatest waterfalls on Earth, all make Argentina a destination with immense potential for horseback riding.
You will be hard pressed to go anywhere in Argentina without seeing someone carrying a "mate" (wooden cup) and "bombilla" (metal straw) with "yerba mate" drink (a local herbal tea) in one hand and a vacuum flask (Thermos) slung over their shoulder, ready to top up their mate when empty. Another strange obsession with the Argentine people is their love of ice cream. Locally made ice cream of great quality can be found all over the country in a variety of flavors. Remember to try dulce de leche (caramelized milk) flavored ice cream. You can also get dulce de leche spread to have on your toast. A must to try.
Buenos Aires is one of the most European cities in South America. It is a very stylish city with many interesting buildings from the nineteenth century. It is also known as the South American Paris for its architecture and style. Don't miss the neighborhood of San Telmo - a run-down but appealing area halfway between midtown and the south end of the city, comparable to New York's Greenwich Village. Cobblestone streets here are rich with early 19th-century colonial architecture and mansions once inhabited by upper-class Spaniards. If you are looking for some entertainment, Buenos Aires is your best choice. With many discos, a casino, and plenty of bars the night has no end in Buenos Aires. There are countless things to see and do in this passionate city including San Telmo, Ricoletta, el Teatro Colon, La Casa Rosada, Plaza de Mayo.
Opera Pampa - Horse Opera
The horse has been an important part of Argentina's history and culture and the inseparable partner of the gaucho - the inhabitant of the Pampa. Accordingly, this show, through the combination of amazing artistic expressions, presents memorable scenes depicting the traditions, the music, the dances, the culture, the dexterity of the Argentine horsemen, and the powerful beauty of their horses. Opera Pampa is dynamic and uninterrupted succession of fascinating scenes portraying different historical times and memorable events in the history of the Americas and mainly in history of Argentina. The show integrates different artistic expressions: folklore dances, musicians, singers, equestrian displays, fixed and moving stages, live and pre-recorded music and songs, and light and sound effects, among others.
Tango Shows
No doubt one of the great attractions of Buenos Aires is the dance which made it famous: The Argentinean Tango. Buenos Aires IS tango and you won't want to miss its charm and sensuality. Either if you want to learn to dance it or if you wish to enjoy the best tango-shows in all the world, Meet Buenos Aires can give you the best tango-tour imaginable.
Argentina Climate and Weather
Argentina is subject to a variety of climates. The climate is predominantly temperate with extremes ranging from subtropical in the north to subpolar in the far south. The north of the country is characterized by very hot, humid summers with mild drier winters. Central Argentina has hot summers with thunderstorms and cool winters. The southern regions have warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall, especially in mountainous zones.
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Patagonia Glacier Ride
The Patagonia Glacier Ride offers exploring on horseback the most remote corners of Los Glaciares National Park where nature is discovered in its maximum expression: a combination of Andean woodland, crystal clear lakes, high mountains, impressive skies, and glaciers. The trip allows you to access where vehicles cannot reach, leaving the main buildings of the estancia behind to climb high up and enter another world.
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The Argentine Government announced that effective November 1st 2021, foreign tourists are permitted to enter, but must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at least 14 days before their arrival in Argentina.
Travelers will be exempt from quarantine so long as they have been fully vaccinated and the second dose has been given 14 days before arrival in Argentina. Argentine Authorities will require evidence of vaccination.
Minors (under age 18) who are not fully vaccinated are allowed to enter the country and will not have to quarantine.
Argentine immigration authorities require that all travelers entering or exiting Argentina submit an electronic sworn statement within the 48 hours before their arrival/departure. The form is available?here: https://ddjj.migraciones.gob.ar/app/home.php
Travelers may be required to present the confirmation email they receive from this system to board a flight.
A negative COVID-19 PCR test administered no more than 72 hours prior to departure is required for all arriving international travelers.
Argentine immigration authorities require that all travelers have evidence of medical travel insurance that includes hospitalization, quarantine, and transportation coverage of COVID-19.
From December 1st 2021, all travelers who have been in the African continent in the fourteen-day period prior to arrival in Argentina will have to meet the requirements mentioned above and the following:
Mention in the electronic sworn statement that they have been to the African continent in the fourteen days prior to arrival in Argentina;
Undergo an antigen test at the airport upon arrival in Argentina;
Quarantine for fourteen days and undergo a COVID 19 PCR test on day ten after the initial negative PCR test taken in the country of origin. If negative, they can then conclude their quarantine isolation period from that point in time.
Measures taken by the government
Masks or other face coverings are mandatory nationwide in public spaces, including public transportation and passenger vehicles.
Effective October 15th, 2020, the Ministry of Transportation announced the resumption of limited domestic commercial flights and long-distance buses.
The Government of Argentina has announced the extension of quarantine and social distancing measures. Per the latest order, cities and departments not experiencing community transmission and who have satisfactory health care infrastructure will remain in mandatory social distancing. Cities and departments with increased or uncontrolled community transmission may revert to mandatory quarantine. Even in those areas under mandatory social distancing, strict limits on travel, gatherings, and other activities apply.
While there is no nationwide curfew, cities and departments on high alert given the epidemiological and sanitary situation may be subject to curfew.
Both PCR and antigen tests are widely available in the City of Buenos Aires. Outside of the City of Buenos Aires, travellers may find varying availability of testing.
Within the City of Buenos Aires, if using a private lab, results are generally available within 24 hours. If using a public hospital, the time frame for receiving results can vary between 8 and 72 hours. Please note that private and public facilities may experience delays in returning test results if demand for tests increases.
Appointments are generally required, and tourists must pay for the cost of their own test. Generally, the cost for a COVID-19 test at a private lab is 6,500 Argentine pesos.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of labs providing testing in the Buenos Aires area: Diagnostico Rossi, Laboratorio Hidalgo, Diagnostico Maipu & IADT (Instituto Argentino de Diagnostico y Tratamiento).
Test results are generally provided electronically in Spanish.
Emergency number (related to COVID-19) while visiting the country
In case of presenting symptoms, even if they are mild, consult the health system by telephone: 107 in CABA, 148 in Buenos Aires Province, 0800-222-1002 nationwide.
US Embassy in Argentina https://ar.usembassy.gov/covid-19/
Published on January 18th 2022 (checked on January 19th 2022)
For more information please visit our COVID-19 Updates page at https://www.hiddentrails.com/article/covid19update.aspx
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HomeNewsResidencyThe Ultimate Guide to Global Talent Visas
The Ultimate Guide to Global Talent Visas
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Around the world, countries are competing against one another to attract talent to boost their economies. The need for labor is high, especially in fast-growing industries. In the last decade, many First World nations have launched immigration programs to attract the very best by offering global talent visas. These visa types reward successful applicants with residency status, which grants the ability to legally work and live in another country.
Global Talent Visas: an expedited path to residency
These visas, which are primarily offered by Western countries, provide an expedited path to residency to people with strong professional backgrounds and, oftentimes, a job offer in the country. These visas are the new norm when it comes to relocating, and they account for significant amounts of immigration in most countries. A global talent visa differentiates itself from another type, the skilled worker visa, by providing residency status without the need of a job offer. In some cases, they offer permanent residency in the country simply based on the professional profile of the candidate, regardless of whether he or she has a job offer. Once in the country, the professional can take employment, start a company or live off investments.
Global talent visas are the best path for highly skilled Americans to gain residency in countries that offer them. Particularly, talented U.S. tech workers are perfect candidates for global talent visas. Unlike other visa types, there is no requirement to make a significant investment, such as buying a home or giving a big government donation. Furthermore, the processing time is often faster than other visa programs.
Successful applicants of global talent visas will demonstrate that they have experience within the eligible occupation lists. Those occupations are often in the tech fields, including software and even agricultural. For now, three English-speaking countries offer a global talent visa: Australia, Canada and the U.K. In these three countries, you will be able to qualify for citizenship in about five years.
Australia Global Talent Independent Program
Australia is one of the most desirable places to live and work in the world. The salaries are high, the quality of life excellent and the weather warm all year long. Australia has been one of the best, if not the best, performing economies of the developed world in the last decade. Even with its relatively remote location — it's not called the Land Down Under for just any reason! — it attracts many talented professionals.
Australia's global talent visa is officially called the Global Talent Independent (GTI) Program. It provides permanent residency, something even multimillion-dollar investors to Australia have to wait five years to receive. GTI program recipients, after only four years, are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship.
The benefits provided by the Australia GTI are exceptional and unmatched by any other immigration path offered by the country. The application process is also the fastest of any other immigration stream in Australia. If you are approved, you will be able to sponsor your spouse and any children under the age of 23 years old to join you.
Here are the other requirements:
Minimum income: You'll need to be able to have a salary of at least $153,000 a year or have completed a Ph.D. in the past three years in one of designated occupational fields
Qualifying occupations for Ph.D. graduates: Agri-food and agtech; energy; health industries; defense; advanced manufacturing and space; circular economy; digitech; infrastructure and tourism; financial services and fintech; education
Minimum Stay: Applicants need to live in the country for two years out of five to maintain their permanent residency status
Application processing time: Eight months
Ontario Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream
Ontario, one of the provinces of Canada, benefits by having a certain degree of autonomy even though it's part of a larger country. Each province has the authority to nominate immigrants for residency into Canada. Ontario is the most populated province. It's home to Toronto, Canada's largest city and its financial hub. In Toronto, over 40% of the population is foreign-born, and the city welcomes roughly 100,000 immigrants each year.
Ontario's global talent visa is officially known as the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream. It's part of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). As long as an applicant falls under the priority occupation list, the Human Capital Priorities Stream grants permanent residency to nominees even if they don't have a job offer in Canada. As a permanent resident you can live anywhere in Canada, but for the nomination you will need to demonstrate your intent to live in Ontario, the province that nominated you. After only three years, you are eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship.
Applicants to the OINP can sponsor their spouse and children under 19 years old.
Minimum income: None, but you will need to get enough points at the pts-base assessment
Qualifying occupations: For 2021, these are banking credit and other investment managers; advertising; marketing and public relations managers; other business services managers; corporate sales managers; financial and investment analysts; human resources professionals; professional occupations in business management consulting; registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses; business development officers; marketing researchers and consultants
Minimum stay: Two years out of five to maintain permanent resident status
Application processing time: Four to six months
U.K. Global Talent Visa
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The United Kingdom consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In addition, there are also tax-friendly Crown dependencies such as Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The U.K., but more specifically London, remains a global attraction for investors and talent worldwide. The city's global connectivity is still unmatched by other world city, even after Brexit.
Under the U.K. Global Talent Visa, you will receive a five-year temporary resident permit that can be converted to permanent residency after only three years. British citizenship is accessible after five years, including only one year of permanent residency. This means you could be eligible for naturalization after only five years in the U.K.
To qualify for the U.K. Global Talent Visa, you need to receive an endorsement from an authorized body about your professional background in one of the eligible fields. It's not limited to technical experience. Investors with a track record in those fields are also eligible. Once approved, you don't need to accept any employment; you just need to be able to generate enough income to meet the threshold set for renewal or permanent residency. The U.K. Global Talent Visa also has no language requirements, and you can sponsor your child and minor children for residency in the U.K.
Minimum income: None
Qualifying occupations: Science; medicine; engineering; humanities; combined arts; dance; literature; music; theatre or visual arts; architecture; fashion design; film and television (including animation); post-production and visual effects; financial technology (fintech); gaming; cybersecurity; artificial intelligence
Minimum stay: None, but to qualify for permanent residency you need to be present most of the year
Processing time: Four to six weeks
UAE Golden Visa for Global Talent
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The UAE is a Middle Eastern country comprised of smaller Emirates along the coast of the peninsula. The two most famous areas, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, have become the region's hub for everything from finance and engineering to travel and technology. The UAE is one of the most tax-friendly jurisdictions in the world and is home to many corporate offices. Dubai residents are primarily expats living and working in the city. A sizeable share of them are Western expats looking for the benefits of tax-free high wages and a great lifestyle.
Since 2018, the UAE has launched a series of policies aimed at retaining and attracting talent to its shores. The Emirates now offer a five-year renewable resident permit to talented individuals in a multitude of fields. It evens offers the offering to top high school graduates. In many cases, you will need to get accreditation of your status from the relevant UAE ministry.
If approved, you will be able to sponsor your spouse, minor sons and unmarried daughters of any age. Adult children can apply for a student visa. There is currently not an easy path to UAE citizenship in place. Nevertheless, the country is slowly opening its naturalization process and has started granting citizenship to some leading academics and scientists.
Qualifying occupations: Outstanding high school and university students; executives and owners of leading companies; coders; tech-related engineers; doctors and scientists; academics; inventors; creative artists
Minimum stay: Not being outside the UAE for more than six consecutive months
Application processing time: Two to three weeks
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SQL Server implements three different physical operators to perform joins. In this article series we will examine how each operators works, its advantages and challenges. We will try to understand the logic behind the optimizer's decisions on which operator to use for various joins using (semi) real life examples and how to avoid common pitfalls.
In Part I of this series on physical join operators we looked at Nested Loops. We now turn our attention to the Merge operator.
For this article series I am using an analogy of two sets of standard playing cards. One set with a blue back and another with a red back that need to be 'joined' together according to various join conditions. The two sets of cards simply represent the rows from the two joined tables, the red input and the blue input - "Now Neo - which input do you choose"?
In the second part of this series on physical join operators we looked at the Merge Operator. In the final part of the series we turn our attention to the Hash operator.
Adding indexes to a table to improve data access paths is one of the most effective ways to optimize workload performance. I'm sure you've all witnessed first-hand how a carefully crafted index is capable of dropping the duration of a query from hours to just a few seconds. This technique is extremely effective, and relatively low-risk, compared to the alternatives of rewriting the query, redesigning the process, making schema changes or even upgrading the hardware and software. It is so effective, that sometimes we overlook the risks involved with it. In this short article, I would like to focus on an issue that one of my clients experienced recently - an issue that nearly brought their production environment to a complete halt.


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In 2018, the vast majority of healthcare practices are ill prepared for the value and changes Artificial Intelligence currently provides, and will continue to provide the industry overall. This includes the need to implement systems that accurately, and transparently assist AI systems. This is something everyone should be concerned about.
AI has the tools to become a transformative technology in healthcare in mostly positive, but other concerning ways. For example, according to an Accenture survey: over 80% of health executives agree that within the next two years, AI will be a noticeable component in the workforce such as working next to physical humans, as a collaborator or advisor, or even a coworker in some cases!
Jobs will ultimately be phased out in some cases, as AI will make them obsolete such as certain support staff positions. This is why there is a major need for the healthcare industry to both transform and adapt to AI and to figure out a way for the eventual job disruption that will ensue.
Bias, naturally is an area that needs to be addressed. There must be clear and concise understanding behind any data that AI provides so that the users of the AI platform can understand the reasoning behind what the data suggests. Therefore, AI needs to implemented without any clear bias apart from assisting on any key organizational definitions or previously defined performance indicators.
Training for the AI platform, whatever that may be i.e. communication, health predictions, etc. is key to preventing any bias from disrupting the effectiveness of the AI.
As much as a benefit Artificial Intelligence can be for patient care, communication, and physician assistance, people must be able to have the skills to comfortably understand and work with the AI and continue to make improvements when needed.
Perhaps the most essential aspect of the development and implementation of AI in the future is educating physicians and all staff who work with the AI. Without proper education and training, the algorithms and sophisticated speeds in which AI can perform data crunching, clinical care decisions, and predicting and defining medical conditions will be without merit.


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NOAA/NWS document: wind turbines affect weather radar, create false storm impressions
Anthony Watts / April 29, 2018
From the Watertown Daily News, and the "law of unintended consequences" department comes an inconvenient truth from the National Weather Service, that upon further investigation appears to be a nationwide problem for the WSR-88D doppler weather radar network used to predict, track, and analyze severe weather. According to NOAA's Radar operations center, forecasters are faced with "little or no workaround".
Part of the reason is that the WSR-88D national deployment in the early to mid 1990's preceded the mass deployment of wind turbines to provide "green energy". They had no way of knowing then that their field of view would be polluted by an army of rotating blades.
h/t to John Droz for the Watertown Daily News article below.
Document from the National Weather Service lists possible radar interference impact from wind turbines
By ABRAHAM KENMORE
WATERTOWN — A new document from the National Weather Service expands on potential interference with the weather radar in Montague, used by personnel at Fort Drum.
In addition to the Buffalo and Burlington, Vt. weather stations which cover Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties, the document lists impacts to the Albany and Binghamton National Weather Service stations, which also use the Montague KTYX radar.
Among the possible concerns listed in the document for the Binghamton station is that beam blockage from wind turbines could hamper tracking of thunderstorms in Oneida and Madison counties, delaying tornado warnings. It could also make it difficult to track lake effect snow and rainfall, which in turn could delay travel advice and flash flood warnings.
For the Albany station, the document said that clutter from turbines could create false storm identification and tracking over Lewis and northern Herkimer counties, as well as possibly masking lake effect snow.
The document was sent out by Jessica A. Schultz with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and lists the possible impact of wind turbines for the four NWS weather stations that use the weather radar. According to documents published online by NOAA, Ms. Schultz works at the NOAA NWS Radar Operations Center in Oklahoma. Although the document itself is unsigned, the document's properties list the author as being a JSchultz.
Here is the document from the NWS, which according to the document properties was created by JSchultz – also reproduced below.
https://www.scribd.com/document/377510647/NWS-Summary-of-Impacts-Fort-Drum-KTYX-Wind-Turbines#from_embed
KTYX Wind Farm Impacts
There are 4 National Weather Service (NWS) offices that use the Fort Drum KTYX radarto accomplish their mission of protection of life and property in the nearby counties.These offices are: NWS Albany, NWS Buffalo, NWS Binghamton, NWS Burlington.
NWS Albany Impacts:
The turbines can cause beam blockage and under-sampling of the radar echoesdownstream (25-30 nautical miles) into northern Herkimer County.
Precipitation underestimate is likely (warm and cool season) in lake effect andwidespread precipitation events.
Turbines can also cause partial beam blockage impacting dual polarization data,and display large amounts of erroneous data.
Downstream turbine clutter can impact precipitation data by over/underestimation, incorrect wind speed data, and false storm identification andtracking over Lewis County before moving into northern Herkimer County.
In the winter, lake effect snow features could be masked or underestimated,negatively impacting warnings and advisories.
During severe weather, erroneous data (especially wind velocities) can impactearly detection and warnings of high winds, hail, and tornadoes
NWS Buffalo Impacts:
The height of existing turbine towers and turbines' spinning blades are causing beam blockage and under-sampling of the radar echoes downstream for Jefferson,Lewis, and Oswego counties.
Resulting precipitation estimates in the vicinity of turbines are not useable, while precipitation estimates downstream have been degraded.
Turbines are causing partial beam blockage impacting dual polarization products.This results in large amounts of erroneous data.
Additional turbine installations will nearly surround the radar, further exacerbating these issues and will make radar interpretation and the detection ofsevere weather increasingly difficult.
Wind turbine clutter has a negative impact on several radar capabilities:
o Precipitation estimation algorithms produce false estimates.
o Velocity products are often not useable near the turbines, particularly during severe weather.
o This can cause false and/or missed detection of tornadoes by radar algorithms and forecasters.
Thunderstorm or winter storm characteristics will be further masked or misinterpreted, reducing warning effectiveness in the vicinity of and downrangeof existing and future wind turbines.
False signatures contaminating Doppler velocity data will further reduce forecasters' situational awareness, especially during hazardous weather events.
Potential radar relocation, particularly east or northeast from the current location will further reduce radar coverage south of Lake Ontario from Monroe, Wayne and Cayuga counties, with completely unseen lake effect events by radar. In any move, beam blockage will continue to be an issue near and over the Tug Hill Plateau.
NWS Binghamton Impacts:
The beam blockage will hamper our abilities to detect thunderstorm circulations in Oneida/Madison Counties and hence tornado warnings could be delayed. It is important that we have good radar coverage in Oneida/Madison Counties because there is a local maximum in tornadoes in these areas since the Mohawk Valley will often skew winds to the southeast leading to increased atmospheric rotation.
Thunderstorm or winter storm characteristics will be further masked or misinterpreted, reducing warning effectiveness in the vicinity of and down range of existing and future wind turbines.
The beam blockage could also significantly hamper our ability to forecast and detect lake effect snow. Oneida County (especially northern Oneida County) sees more than 200″ of snow per year on average and is one of the snowiest places east of the Rockies. The beam blockage could affect our ability to detect lake effect snow along the NY State Thruway between Syracuse and Utica of which is a major travel corridor. Our office provides almost daily briefings to the NYS Thruway Authority when a lake effect snow pattern is present. Significant beam blockage could erode our ability to time and track heavy lake effect snow bands that severely impact travel which would lead to less accurate decision support to the Thruway Authority.
Oneida and Madison Counties have a history of severe local flash flooding and beam blockage will hamper our ability to accurately estimate rainfall in thesecounties which would negatively impact the timeliness of flash flood warnings.
NWS Burlington Impacts:
Wind turbines close to the radar close to the radar cause some uncertainty/confusion about actual storm characteristics while monitoring storms that are moving north or northeast. This can delay warnings, resulting in a lower lead time prior to the storm reaching St. Lawrence or Franklin Counties.
The wind turbines "look" like precipitation, even on a clear day. This can cause confusion to users of the data, including the media, pilots, and general public.
If the radar is forced to be relocated because of wind turbines, concerns would be magnified. Any move to the east or south of the current location would result reduced radar coverage over St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties. This would mean poorer detection of lake effect snow and low level severe weather features,such as tornadoes, high winds, and hail.
It seems the issue isn't limited to New York, the NWS has also been investigating wind turbine impacts on weather radars in the midwest. From the NOAA WSR-88D Operations center:
HOW ROTATING WIND TURBINE BLADES IMPACT THE NEXRAD DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
Rotating wind turbine blades can impact the radar in several ways. Wind turbines can impact the NEXRAD radar base data, algorithms, and derived products when the turbine blades are moving and in the radar's line of sight (RLOS); and, if turbines are sited very near to the radar their large nacelles and blades can also physically block the radar beam or reflect enough energy back to the radar to damage the radar's receiver hardware.
Radar Receiver: The NEXRAD radar has a very sensitive receiver. The radar's Receiver Protector prevents damage from strong reflected signals; however its upper limit is 53 dBm. Large objects sited very near the radar (< 4 km), such as turbine nacelles, have the potential to return signals that exceed the limit of receiver protector and render the radar inoperable.
Beam Blockage: If sited within a few kilometers of the radar, wind turbines can partially or fully block the radar beam. This beam blockage attenuates the strength of the beam and impacts data beyond the wind farm, causing shadows or spikes in the data through the entire range of the radar (460 km for reflectivity data, and up to 300 km for velocity and spectrum width data).
Radar Base Data: Turbines in RLOS can reflect energy back to the radar and visually contaminate the reflectivity, velocity, and spectrum width data. Forecasters look for certain "signatures" in the data that indicate the severity of the storms. The wind farm clutter can sometimes look just like showers and thunderstorms, or can alter the appearance of a storm (e.g. hook echoes). This visually corrupted data adds uncertainty to the analysis and could cause forecasters to delay/miss a severe weather warning or to warn unnecessarily.
Algorithms and Derived Products: The base reflectivity, velocity, and spectrum-width data are also used by many algorithms in the radar processor to detect certain storm characteristics, such as mesocyclones, relative storm motion, hail, turbulence, etc. Corrupted base data can cause the radar algorithms to generate false alerts or to miss alerts. The radar also generates many additional products using this base data, such as wind profiles and rainfall estimates. Wind turbine clutter can impact the accuracy of these derived products.
The graph below depicts the relative impact of wind turbines (or wind farms) on NEXRAD radars and forecasters as a function of distance (on level terrain) if wind turbines are in the RLOS.
Impacts increase greatly as wind turbines are sited closer to the radar, especially within 18 km (assuming level terrain), as radar operator workarounds become more difficult. Turbines sited at least 18 km from the radar generally only impact the lowest radar scan at 0.5 degrees elevation, and clutter is confined to the wind farm area. Within 18 km wind turbines cause additional impacts including: clutter on multiple elevation scans above 0.5 degrees, multipath clutter down range of the wind turbines, and greater impacts to radar algorithms. Multipath scattering from wind turbines can extend the contaminated data up to 40 km beyond the wind farm. Turbines sited within 4 km of the radar may also cause significant (>10%) attenuation/blockage of the radar beam impacting data throughout the entire range (460 km-reflectivity, 300 km-velocity) of the radar. When turbines are sited within 200 m, construction or maintenance personnel may be exposed to microwave energy exceeding OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) thresholds. The above distances assume a level terrain and a Standard Atmosphere Index of Refraction profile. Therefore, actual impacts may occur closer or further away from the radar than this chart indicates depending on the terrain and current atmospheric refraction. Accurate determination of the RLOS and impact distances requires a detailed site-by-site analysis.
You may wonder why we can't filter out this clutter since we know where the wind farms are located. The NEXRAD has a sophisticated clutter removal scheme. Since weather is usually in motion, the scheme was designed to filter returns that have essentially no or very low motion. This is effective for removing the returned signals from terrain, buildings, and other non-moving structures. However, the radar sees rotating wind turbine blades as targets having motion, hence processes these returns as weather. At this time there is no filtering scheme available to identify and remove wind turbine clutter while preserving real weather returns.
Wind turbine clutter has not had a major negative impact on forecast or warning operations, yet. However, with more and larger wind turbines coming on line, radars in some parts of the country will have multiple wind farms in their line of sight. Cumulative negative impacts should be anticipated – which, at some point, may become sufficient to compromise the ability of radar data users to perform their missions.
Examples of Wind Turbine Clutter
Zoomed-in Display of WTC-contaminated data from Fort Drum NEXRAD
The image above is a zoomed 0.5 degree elevation Reflectivity product from the Ft Drum, NY NEXRAD. There is a large wind farm nearby with turbines oriented from due north through southeast of the radar. The turbines are close enough (within 18 km) to cause spurious multipath scattering that extends well beyond the wind farm and contaminates data at multiple scanning elevation angles.
Display of WTC-contaminated data from the Dyess AFB, TX NEXRAD
Sequence (left to right) of 0.5 deg reflectivity images showing thunderstorms developing over a wind farm (purple rectangle) 18–30 km (10-16 nm) west of Dyess AFB, TX WSR-88D. Left: thunderstorms have not yet developed, high reflectivity values due to wind turbines alone. Middle and Right: storm has developed to where in right image a distinct notch structure, indicative of severe weather, formed – note: turbine and weather echoes indistinguishable.
This radar-estimated Storm Total Precipitation accumulation product from the Dodge City, Kansas NEXRAD on April 22, 2010 at 1403 GMT depicts how wind farms can impact radar-derived products. Erroneous 4+ inch radar-estimated Storm Total Precipitation accumulations (indicated by the arrows) in the image on the left are due to wind farms northeast and southwest of the NEXRAD. The anomalous accumulations make estimates of rainfall over an area/river basin more difficult to determine. However, radar operators can apply exclusion zones to mitigate these anomalous accumulations, as seen on the right. (Radar precipitation algorithms do not use the returns from the exclusion zone to accumulate precipitation.)
Dodge City, KS NEXRAD (KDDC) reflectivity (upper right) and mean radial velocity (lower right) imagery for 0150 UTC on 23 Feb 2007 showing two wind farms within the radar's line of sight. The yellow area in the upper left image depicts areas where the radar line of sight is within 130 m of the ground. The reflectivity and velocity values are anomalous and can confuse users. The lower left panel shows the effects of the wind farm to the southwest whose influence has resulted in a false tornado alert generated by the NEXRAD algorithms. The Weather Forecast Office did not issue a warning because, in this case, other data indicated that there was no severe weather in the wind farm area.
In 2016, the NWS produced a plan to prevent bad siting of future weather radar installtions in proximity with wind farms:
https://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/WindFarm/Analyses.aspx?wid=dev
Based on the wind farm proposal the ROC receives, the ROC provides a case-by-case analysis of potential wind farm impacts on WSR-88D data and forecast/warning operations. The ROC uses a geographic information system (GIS) database that utilizes data from the Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a RLOS map with delineated areas corresponding to a turbine height of 160 m AGL. Multiple radar elevation angles are considered for projects close to the radar.
The ROC then performs a meteorological and engineering analysis using: distance from radar to turbines; maximum height of turbine blade tips; the number of wind turbines; radar azimuths impacted; elevation of the nearby WSR-88D antenna; an average 1.0 degree beam width spread; and terrain (GIS database). From this data the ROC determines if the main radar beam will intersect any tower or turbine blade based on the Standard Atmosphere's Refractive Index profile.
Finally, the ROC estimates operational impacts based on amount of turbine blade intrusion into RLOS, number of radar elevation tilts impacted by turbines, location and size of the wind farm, number of turbines, orientation of the wind farm with respect to the radar (radial vs azimuthal alignment), severe weather climatology, and operational experience. The ROC also compares the wind farm to other operational wind farms to estimate impacts.
The problem is being addressed through a NWS training course, which is open to the public here:
https://training.weather.gov/wdtd/modules/windfarms/
Here they talk about the problem, when blades are turning, algorithms can't remove the false signal. But when blades are stationary, they can. The problem is that Doppler radar is designed to detect motion, or more specifically, storm motion.
And their worst nightmare:
And there's more. In 2007, a presentation was made about the Weatherford wind farm in Oklahoma:
Weatherford Wind Farm Blue Canyon Wind Farm Appearance of OK Wind Farms Varies with Time and Radar Beam Propagation.
http://slideplayer.com/slide/5027130/
Note the two stationary echoes in the left and lower left parts of the animation. These are the Weatherford (along the Interstate) and Blue Canyon wind farms
While it may be news to Watertown, NWS offices around the country have been dealing with this problem for awhile. It should be noted that there's not one document citing radar interference from coal, nuclear, or hydroelectric power plants.
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117 thoughts on "NOAA/NWS document: wind turbines affect weather radar, create false storm impressions"
John Droz, jr. says:
Thank you for posting this nationally important matter. What should also be understood is that the wind turbine interference explained above, also adversely impacts navigation radars. If that wasn't bad enough there is evidence that wind turbines cause interference with military operations, including weather (NEXRAD), Primary or Secondary Surveillance, and ROTHR radars.
John, good comments, but for sure they are not ever going to shut down a wind-farm of turbines for some of our feathered friends. How high are the turbines again? I've previously commented about standing underneath these monsters, noting the dead birds littering the ground, and being amazed about the blade tip speed. How big are they? Awesomely gigantic!
People have expressed their disbelief about bird deaths, saying "look at how slow they turn".
They often don't understand the math, which shows that the tip speed can reach 180- 200 mph.
HotScot says:
Ron, Alan,
I'm not sure it's even the speed of the rotating blades that matters, other than they come out of nowhere as far as the birds are concerned. Just hitting an entirely unexpected static obstruction will hurt ot feathered and leathery friends.
Nor can I quite believe that we hoary old climate sceptics are doing the greens job for them by pointing this out, when imported colonies of newts have been used as objections to housing developments in the UK.
Funny old world really.
s-t says:
"saying "look at how slow they turn""
More evidence that "education" (schools) is a massive scam. More massive than pretty much anything else. Billions down the drain. For nothing, except boredom, passivity, and the impression spending times somewhere entitles you to something back.
Overheard after the history exam of French "Brevet des collèges" (after the "classe de 3ème" = normally 15 years old at the end of the year, here the school child was probably 16):
Child A: Hitler, first or second world war?
Child B: Second.
Child A: Sh*t, I'll have to redo it yet another time!
Anthony did a piece on this in 2013z
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/07/noaa-shows-that-wind-farms-affect-weather-radar-and-that-affects-their-primary-mission-of-forecasting-and-safety/
I can always see the Mars Hill, Maine wind farm inteference on NWS Caribou radar.
Also, lots of articles about using radar to see birds near wind farms (so they can shut them down, lol) to prevent bird impacts. See nothing, say nothing…
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/wind-energy-takes-toll-birds-now-there-s-help-ncna866336
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-doppler-radar-can-track-bird-migrations-180952834/
One, Cable…need eyeglasses and a pill that'll make me young again…
Here is the rescue hoist used. Only has 250' cable…
http://www.goodrichhoistandwinch.com/products/detail/rescue-hoist-42305/
How high are the turbines again???
I was wondering, truly, how long it would be before this was discussed as a very real, very valid problem. It is only one of many problems that wind farms represent.
Thanks for the post. Let's hope common sense prevails at some point.
Latitude says:
this was on Kate's blog….
"Massive Damage"…Large-Scale Engineering Debacle Threatens As North Sea Wind Turbine Breaks Apart!
By P Gosselin on 27. April 2018
The pressure and rush to go green: The technical integrity of Germany's offshore wind parks gets cast into doubt after a wind turbine comes apart after just 8 years of operation. North Sea wind turbines may prove to be inadequately designed and thus unfit for safe operation.
http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/27/massive-damage-large-scale-engineering-debacle-threatens-as-north-sea-wind-turbine-breaks-apart/#sthash.nec9eBYj.jpVGL3u8.dpbs
There's only so much that engineering can accomplish. Sounds like someone is trying to make excuses, or place blame.
If they achieved 8 years before failure, that's worthy of note.
The engineers certified it as meeting the design criteria, which I assume included not falling apart after only 8 years.
If it's not possible from an engineering standpoint to build such structures, then the engineers have a legal obligation to inform their supervisors of this fact.
After a structure fails, to declare that "there is only so much engineering can do" is a cop out.
8 years to failure for a wind turbine? Not unexpected.
They REQUIRE a full shutdown and major overhaul at the seven year point. Need shorter routine shutdowns and repairs at the 2 year and 4 year points. Were the earlier maintenance shutdowns completed properly for all turbines in that windfarm at sea?
This "Routine" windmill maintenance is extremely expensive, and working aloft in the turbine nacelles is one of the most dangerous places of all power production. There are fewer and fewer men willing to climb the 400 feet ladders to work 12 hour days up there, then cliimb down at the end of the shift, bringing their tools, clothes, cleanup rags and chemicals, and – yes – even their "stuff" with them in pails and buckets. (No toilets up high.)
Windmill subsidies ONLY cover the initial buy-in of the manufactoring and (sometimes) construction. Only the operating subsidies are tax-supported, never the maintenance monies. So, their operation is subsidized only when operating, and there's no subsidy for repairs, and so no budget for repairs, and so all too often, no repairs. Run them until they break. "The original owners got their money from the taxpayers a long while back – The new holding company doesn't care about long-term upkeep.
And the maintenance situation is even more difficult, more expensive, and takes longer for at-sea turbines being supported from helicopters and tossing small boats a long way from shore. And the at-sea turbines are subject to even harsher climates and salty environments with near-continuous spray and deposits and corrosion.
MarkW,
No, it isn't a copout. It's a recognition of reality, despite your red herrings. Do you think that all parties involved in the project weren't fully apprised of all known performance and design issues?
Where did you get your assumptions? Do you have any idea of the mtbf of such structures on land?
Engineers can only operate within the framework of what is possible. It is not possible to divine all of the complexities involved in producing a sophisticated first- run machine, until it is built and operating in place.
Your position is tantamount to claiming that all machine failures are an engineering failure. Think about that.
If such were the case, then someone, somewhere would have built a machine that will never wear out or break down. Where is that machine?
I think they did a great job to get 8 years out of the machine before the hood flew off.
Alan R: You'd be a great boss at a construction company. Where my husband works, maintenance is just when things fall apart. The last new truck had 30 hours on it when it developed a huge oil leak requiring tearing apart part of the haul truck. It's under warranty, so let's all cheer. Ignore the cost of lost production, just cheer the truck repair is free. Still no rock being a hauled at the quarry, of course, but no money being spent on maintenance or renting trucks that actually work (this brand of trucks costs less to rent—and breaks down constantly, under warranty, so no problem, right?). Bean counters everywhere rejoice!!!
Sommer says:
Environment Canada even admits it on their website:
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weather-general-tools-resources/radar-overview/wind-turbine-interference.html
In Huron County, Ontario's prime agricultural county , farmers rely on weather forecasts and the forecasts are very often wrong.
Gary Pearse says:
Every technology has impacts of one kind or another might be the argument you'll hear. But the reply, of course, is that this technology has little upside – unreliable and expensive power with a string of other negatives: use of environmantally damaging raw materials (specifically because of the atrocious lack of concern with the environment at rare earth mines in China), the killing of birds and bats in large numbers, the need for backup power, the large footprint including gathering the power, and proposed storage…
I would add to NWS concerns with large wind farms the creation of an artificial "blocking high" that will create weather – sustaining and regarding exit of low pressure areas down wind.
retarding not regarding.
Dan Davis says:
Wonder if coating the blades and pylons with anti-radar absorbent would reduce this problem.
They certainly need something to reduce this impact.
Coating might reduce 'traction' of the wind on the blades, losing efficiency.
Mike Borgelt says:
Gary: "'traction' of the wind on the blades"
You obviously don't know how the blades work. They "fly" through the air the same way an airplane wing works.
I'm sure that's a quote from a WW2 movie.
When the renewables industry is grasping at every dime of opportunity to promote their cause, reducing turbine efficiency by a speed influencing coating, in the face of growing criticism, is just not worth the lives of the birds and bats it might save.
Mike, airplane wings work because the air moves faster over the top of the wing than it does over the bottom.
If "traction" causes this air to not move as fast, then the pressure differential will be reduced, reducing the efficiency of the "wing".
Regardless, such coatings are both expensive and not very durable. Which means they would have to be re-applied on a regular basis. Making a power source that is already ridiculously expensive, even more so.
MarkW, Gary Pearse, Subtle2, HotScot, wolfdasilva
Well, technically, an airplane wing gains "lift" by forcing the wing forward at high speeds into static air, dividing that static air into two parts: The part that goes under the wing, and the part that goes over the wing. Both eventually end up joining together at the end of the wing at the same speed and same pressure and same temperature (assuming sub-sonic, theoretical flow of an ideal gas.) Because the two airflows join back up eventually, the two have different flow distances across the top (longer, higher speed, lower pressure) and the bottom (shorter distance, lower speed, higher pressure). Therefore, all else being the same, the higher pressure on the bottom of the wing means "lift".
ANYTHING that slows the air speed difference between top of wing and bottom of the wing reduces lift between top of wing and bottom of wing (reduces wind differential speed which reduces lift). So any increase in "drag" by paint or by a radar-absorbing coating is a "bad" thing. And expensive, as you point out.
Now, a turbine blade creates rotation forces by creating "lift" by "forcing" the FIXED blade to intercept a MOVING air stream, and then splitting that air flow into two components – one above (in front of) and one below (behind) the blade. The difference in wind speed between front and back of the blade creates "lift" which creates torque on the long blade which creates a torque on the shaft which we turn into electrical power. Sometimes. Most of the time it is just wasted money.
Anything which creates "drag" (traction) on the blade surface reduces the wind differential speed between top and bottom of the blade, which then reduces available lift, which reduces available torque on the shaft of the generator. So, heavy, expensive, thick radar absorbing coatings (assuming the blade is designed aerodynamically properly in the first place) are a "bad thing" to be avoided.
But most windmill blades are carbon fibre anyway. Unlike shorter, stiffer propeller blades on older prop-driven airplanes, very, very few modern wind turbine blades are aluminum. The carbon-fiber blades are composite, but are designed for strength and rigidity after being saturated with the resins and plastic glues – not designed for anti-radar reflecting or radar absorption qualities.
It is an open question whether radar reflections are enhanced by the carbon fibre properties, or reduced by the carbon fibre and glue final qualities.
MarkW: "If "traction" causes this air to not move as fast, then the pressure differential will be reduced, reducing the efficiency of the "wing"
You also have no clue how a wind turbine works. "Traction" is inapplicable.
Try using the correct aerodynamic term.
Mike, there's a reason why I put the word in quotes.
Do you always get this cranky when someone corrects you?
Stealth wind turbines… general aviation will not be able to see them either in IFR conditions….
Now to go OTa little. Coast Guard Jayhawks will have ine hell of a time dealing with incidents that may occur at offshore wind facilities too. Not with just radar but unit heights as well. They only have so much canle on their winches to raise the rescue litters or drop swimmers in reasonably close proximity to accident/medical scenes that will inevitably happen.
Komrade Kuma says:
Can I suggest removal of these useless, religious icons that have been shoved in our faces so all the eco warrior Onan Kardashians out there can reassure themselves that they will be going to nirvana.
Jtom says:
They might be able to reduce the echo reflection from blades, but I suspect it would still block them from seeing what was on the other side of the windfarm, i.e., there would be a 'black hole' in their coverage.
rogercaiazza says:
The weather radar "clutter" from industrial wind facilities is a particularly troublesome problem for the Watertown NY area because of lake-effect snow. From mid-November to mid-April residents in this area have to deal with these storms. Lake-effect snow bands form in the lower levels of the atmosphere and as locals can tell you the bands can set up and stay stationary for long periods of time. As a result if this area becomes cluttered with industrial wind facilities no one will be able to tell whether the weather radar returns are "clutter" or a persistent snow band in that area. The persistent bands are the biggest concern because snow piles up in those events and locals try to avoid them.
Look at the Sacramento Radar, Southwest of Fairfield and along the Altamont Pass. These always show "intense" weather for the Wind farms located along the ridge top and in the Delta.
South EAST of Fairfield..
Wind farms have been built all around my beloved home state of Oklahoma. I do hope that no one is ever injured or worse, due to late or absent warnings of impending tornadoes.
Verifiable windgen- caused deaths of wildlife has been no concern of environmentalists and in light of their constant sermons about the existence of too many people, it is a certainty that human deaths would cause them no outcry, either.
Deaths of wildlife have been of no concern to environmentalists…
I've no idea why it is so difficult to see composition errors when they are correctable, yet they leap off the page when the send button is pressed.
Maybe a personal" timeout before send" habit would help.
Liz (in OK) says:
The Oklahoma Energy Resource Board (OERB) has a program to restore abandoned oil well sites. I wonder if the wind industry will be responsible to clean up their sites once the turbines burn up or are destroyed and the companies got bankrupt. The biggest mistake OK did was to give a tax credit to that industry.
ROM says:
There is no provision in any wind turbine company's long term budgets to clean up the derelict wind turbine sites when the turbine or turbine farm ceases operations. Usually by the end of a turbine's life, the original promoters of the turbine farm have collected the grossest of subsidy profits from the building of the turbines and have onsold the whole corrupt shebang onto some investment fund suckers a lot further down the line
In germany the removal of the concrete platforms that the turbines are based on is only being done down to a metre or so to give the impression thart the site has been rehabilitated and the other 8 or more metres deep concrete bases are left in place.
Read the relevant articles on Pierre Gosselin's excellent German to English translated science and climate. "NoTricksZone" blog.
For that is the future that the utterly corrupt wind indusry [ and solar farm industry ] will leave and is leaving the tax payers of America', Europe and Australia's unholy stinking incredibly expensive mess of the most corrupt and exploitive of the tax paying public, industries of today, the wind turbine and solar industries.
Germany's Wind Energy Mess: As Subsidies Expire, Thousands Of Turbines To Shut Down…Environmental Nightmare!
http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/24/germanys-wind-energy-mess-as-subsidies-expire-thousands-of-turbines-to-shut-down-environmental-nightmare/#sthash.VzMsR09Z.dpbs
PRDJ says:
Those same decommissioning funds are in place for fossil and nuclear power plants. The coal plants put out of service by the former US administration will be utilizing these decommissioning funds.
Someone please correct or verify, but I believe these funds are built through a mechanism built into the rate base paid by the public served. Like the fuel surcharge, it is a direct pass through.
subtle2 says:
Distorting weather radar readings is a minor inconvenience compared to the real threat presented by windmills.
The problem is the inordinate drag wind turbines present to the moving air mass. Theoretically, this could slow the Earth's rotation, thereby inducing earthquakes. More widespread than those supposedly "caused" by fracking, which of course, if such cause and effect prevails, would be localized.
No, the threat would be worldwide. And given the inconstancy of the airflow, the earthquake swarms would vary accordingly.
The threat of Catastrophic Wind Induced Earthquakes (CWIE) is real and ambitious journalists should get on with it. The first step would be to stop building windmills. The next would be to start tearing them down.
As soon as possible.
The urgency is that the "full catastrophe" would occur when an extraordinary CME hits at the same time as a CWIE. Clearly the end of the world at its most extreme. Less sanguine researchers in this new field would conclude that at the very worst, just all of the refrigerator-door magnets would fall off.
Bob Hoye
Leo Smith says:
utter piffle
I thought it to be intentional nonsense.
Oh, that's just great. CWIE?
More earthquakes and delayed warnings for tornadoes?
What's next, volcanoes?
Are there any wind turbines near Yellowstone? If there are, be afraid, very afraid. /sarc
Roy Spencer says:
All wind energy is dissipated at the surface by friction anyway.
Oh, but those big ol' tall levers.
(ok, i'll stop)
To many turbines will cause the earth to spin the other way. Then we'll face the serious problem of reverse faults.
Ian H says:
A bit too subtle. Lewandowsky bait?
Point 1: compare the weight of the atmosphere to the weight of the planet. It comes out to many orders of magnitude less than the rounding error in our estimation of the earth's weight.
Point 2: All wind comes to a stop eventually. If this were not true wind speeds would have started picking up the minute the earth had an atmosphere until the winds were blowing fast enough to reach escape velocity. Windmills can change wind patterns, by forcing some of the wind to go around them. That's about it.
MarkW: " Windmills can change wind patterns, by forcing some of the wind to go around them."
Nope, you don't have a clue.
The only thing a wind turbine can do is reduce the kinetic energy in the wind. They don't make the wind "go around them" because the wind goes THROUGH them.
Mike Borgelt
No, not exactly true. The wind "speeds up" (increases its static pressure) directly in front (upwind) of the turbine blade diameter, then the pressure decreases immediately behind the turbine disk. The flow lines then spread out as they pass through the blade diameter, then go enter a 10-15x diameter "cone" behind the wind turbine.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjB5v6q9eDaAhWMON8KHYiSAQ4QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Ffigure%2FSetup-considered-for-the-derivation-of-Betz-Law-airflow-tube-with-turbine-replaced-by_fig7_224253337&psig=AOvVaw2SsAEKG681mNQgcBnXyJcR&ust=1525140325217315
The wind disturbance extends many rotor diameters ABOVE the first rotor as well: Don't just make the assumption that the "tower height" is the limit of the windmill radar interferences.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Wake-flow-structure-of-horizontal-axis-wind-turbine-11_fig1_252044111
Now, the reason we know that wind turbine critics who claim the wind turbines will stop the rotation of the earth and make it go backwards are wrong is because the number of angels dancing behind the cosmic aether disturbed by the turbine blades has not yet been determined stochemetrically. (And, in any case, all them reverse-blowing wind turbines in the southern hemisphere merely makes the earth twist about its equatorial center of inertia. Witch is quiet large.)
Mike, if you would stop for a minute you would realize just how stupid you sound.
What happens when you take kinetic energy out of something. You slow it down.
What happens when something causes the wind to slow down. There's a pile up resulting in some of the wind going around.
Let's just face it, you aren't as smart as your mother told you.
usurbrain says:
I have been talking about these problems for about ten years, Do we need a tragedy to drive home the problem? Back in 2007 Colonel Steven Arquiette, commander of the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis, warned that " …we have evidence indicating the wind turbines will create significant interference with the base's radar and could lead to potentially serious flight safety hazards in terms of planes dropping off radar, flight tracks on radar different from actual tracks and 'false targets' – planes the radar sees but aren't actually there." The AFB had to spend millions to upgrade the radar just to mitigate the problem to a point of acceptable but not ideal corrective action. Then the Obama administration forced the military to obtain 20% of their power from "renewable energy." Thus the military was spending money to build new Renewable energy sources and that much again to up grade the radar on the air bases. And all of this during the reduced spending requirements of sequester. Basically, a road map for disaster or disestablishment of the military, take your pick.
The wind energy industry should bear the costs of any radar relocation required by wind farm installation. There is no reason the taxpayer should *further* subsidize the costs this industry imposes on the nation.
RockyRoad says:
Calling wind energy an "industry" is like calling gambling an "industry". Neither are particularly resourceful.
Colorado Wellington says:
This is a typical attack but they are not the only creative and industrious entrepreneurs smeared by critics. Don't you know how much hard work and hard money goes into building support for these ventures among local politicians? Whole industries are built just for that.
RicDre says:
Actually, the gambling "industry" is quite resourceful at separating people from their money. Come to think of it, the wind energy "industry" has been quite resourceful at doing that also.
Gambling produces entertainment. I know that there are a lot of people who don't feel that this is a legitimate industry, but this view is not universal.
The Renewable energy industry is the fastest and most efficient way yet known of extracting large amounts of wealth from the poorest in the land and transferring that wealth to the richest.
wolfdasilva says:
OK, I know this is nitpicking but the wind turbines do not create false storm impressions. A person reading the radar may create in his mind a false impression but the windmills themselves are innocent. They are just helpless renewable energy tools. They also can not help that birds that fly blindly into their blades. Birds must evolve (like bats) and a few deaths may forward this process. Heartless, I know but you have to break bird eggs to make an omelet.
[Technically speaking, the wind turbine blades are not breaking bird eggs. The actual bird eggs are safe back in the nests, unbroken but abandoned by the birds broken by the wind turbine blades, which are actual breaking pre-bird-eggs. .mod]
So far, you win the thread's prize for egregious rationalization.
Thanks, I did not know that was an award, but my flock of genetically modified sonar equipped snow geese will like it.
ntesdorf says:
Wind-Turbines kill birds and bats, reduce endangered species numbers, drive neighbours to insanity and now we see that they interfere with radar systems, and yet the Greenies still love them as they are a futile offshoot of their discredited theory of CAGW. It is as effective at taking a shotgun and blazing away to reduce malaria mosquitos.
Bats too? Oh crap.
I sit corrected.
Mr. Watts (or whoever you are that) So what you are saying is the windmills are killing post-bird-eggs and leaving pre-bird-eggs to die. Okay, I see the problem we may have to ban windmills after all. I just found out windmills are killing bats (which have no eggs, not in nests anyway) too, this has to stop.
wolfdasilva
I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, or if you are just funny.
1. Your grammar is even worse than mine (and mine is really bad).
2. Mr. Watt's may operate this blog, it doesn't mean he exclusively moderates it, there are many volunteers.
3. You are not as funny as you think, not even close.
HotScot,
Well now we know we both have bad grammar and no sense of humor, Want to go on a date?
[The mods refuse all accountability and responsibility for any gramma's and grandpa's resulting as an outcome of any dating occurring before, during, or after; on or about or around any such date. .mod]
mods, I am willing to sign a waiver. It just that finding someone who is compatible is so hard.
HotScot, if we chased of everyone who had a joke fall flat, there would be nobody left.
They kill bats by the means of lung explosion. The bats don't get killed by actually hitting any blade, their lungs explode due to the pressure of the turbines when they fly around them.
Ian W says:
This has been a recognized problem in the UK for some time. To the extent that the Ministry of Defence has intervened to prevent windfarms being built.
https://scotlandagainstspin.org/2013/12/fears-raf-pilots-halt-plan-huge-windfarm-press-journal/
greymouser70 says:
All the more reason to wrap det cord around the bases of the turbines and rid the landscape of their visual blight. /sarc
Writing Observer says:
It was an accident – but a cell tower at Camp Pendleton was apparently taken out by a not quite fully trained mortar team. One shell, one turbine, most likely…
An accident. Sure.
Ornery dadburn threaded-headed wild wahoos, anyhow.
Writing Observer
Just one mortar per turbine?
Sounds like good value for money to me.
D. J. Hawkins says:
No, no! JetCord! You use JetCord!!
Still have not found much else on this related wind farm topic.
http://news.mit.edu/2010/climate-wind-0312
HDHoese says:
Great post, a local TV meteorologist has long pointed this out, often apparent on Corpus Christi, Texas radar. Great controversy about potential problems at Kingsville Naval Air Station which has alternate fields.
Peta of Newark says:
When humankind finally gets round to arranging one rock atop another *and* they stay there for any length of time – *then* you can wake me up.
jclarke341 says:
Pyramids in Egypt? That's pretty good rock stacking!
Like Peta said, when we figure out how to stack rocks like that…
Unintended is not necessarily unforeseen.
Steve Richards says:
Just had a look at the space used by wind versus nuclear.
Buffalo Gap Wind Farm, US at 32°18′38″N 100°8′57″W and
Vandellòs, Spain at 0°57′05″N 00°52′00″E
Buffalo has a name plate capacity of 524MW from 296 turbines.
Vandellòs has a name plate capacity of 1045MW from one reactor.
We need two buffalos to make one Vandellòs – assuming the wind was 'good' all the time.
But, the amount of land used by these two systems differs greatly.
Buffalo is (roughly from Google maps) 36 miles east-west, and 21 miles north-south.
Vandellòs is approximately 1/2 mile square.
And we need *TWO* buffalos to match the output of Vandellòs.
What a waste, one reactor versus (296 x 2) = 592 turbines.
One works nearly all the time on request, the other works only when the wind blows just right.
3¢worth says:
Vandellòs, Spain is ~ 41°N. You have it virtually on the equator.
KT66 says:
Doppler radar had roots in WWII, and understanding that history and the scientific basics of Doppler Radar helps explain why wind turbines present a very real and difficult problem.
The Germans had a 50 cm aircraft tracking and FLAK directing radar called Wuerzburg. It was so accurate and effective that it was making the night Allied bomber offensive untenable. In order to accomplish the fire/carpet bombing raid on Hamburg in 1943 without catastrophic losses to the bombers, the RAF first used what they code named Window. Window was millions of strips of aluminum foil cut to 1/2 the wave length of the radar and dropped in the pathway of of the bomber stream. The resulting returns flooded the Wuerzburg indicators rendering the radar useless.
It took the Germans all of two weeks to develop a solution. They invented Doppler Radar. What they did was to take advantage of the Doppler Shift effect caused by the motion of the targets. They filtered out via Doppler for the speeds of the falling aluminum strips and pass filtered for the typical speeds of legitimate targets. This paved the way to eventually filtering out ground clutter and sea clutter and also to weather radar as it is known today.
Spinning turbine blades present a vexing problem because it is their motion that creates the Doppler shift contamination. One can not simply filter out for the speeds of the blades rotation without also creating holes in the information spectrum of legitimate returns. The blades give a continuous spectrum of speeds from slow to high along the length of the blades from the hub to the tip. And the RPM is irregular. Moreover, they present at all times both horizontal and vertical polarities and all polarities in between.
The Germans had 50cm aircraft? How large were the rounds they fired?
MarkW
Now that's not fair. Funny as hell, but still not fair.
HotScot, MarkW can't read. He doesn't understand the difference between the radar wavelength and the size of an aircraft.
Mike Borgelt. You really don't have any sense of humor, of sarcasm, nor of irony do you?
I guess I set myself up for that one.
ES says:
Just north of there in Ontario they have other problems, and the government is hiding it:
Over the last few months, STT has reported several times on how the wind industry has relentlessly destroyed underground water supplies in Chatham-Kent, lying about the cause all the way along. Adding insult to injury, the public health authorities have sided with the wind industry; treating its victims with equal, if not greater, cynicism and contempt.
Follow the links for a short video and more….
For readers not familiar with Ontario, Queen's Park is where the government is located and Kathleen Wynne is the premier.
Black Plague: Wind Turbine Construction Turning Ontario's Water Supply to Toxic Sludge
https://stopthesethings.com/2018/04/27/black-plague-wind-turbine-construction-turning-ontarios-water-supply-to-toxic-sludge/
Gamecock says:
'Among the possible concerns listed in the document for the Binghamton station is that beam blockage from wind turbines could hamper tracking of thunderstorms in Oneida and Madison counties, delaying tornado warnings. It could also make it difficult to track lake effect snow and rainfall, which in turn could delay travel advice and flash flood warnings.'
I think NWS exaggerates the problem.
Plus, they have no right to an unblocked signal.
So they should work out a technical solution, or just get over it.
First responders will now have to take this information into consideration?
And how many tornadoes have you been through?
You have no information whatsoever that any have ever been affected by this. You are as full of it as NWS.
Non sequitur.
Have been through several tornadoes and there isn't much time to seek shelter.
So any information provided by weather radar is appreciated.
Now this interference is public information. Will heed the warning next time a storm approaches.
Or maybe we should get rid of these eyesores that can't pay their own way, cause more harm than good to environment, do nothing to "save the planet", kill wild life, push people to insanity, cause health problems……
You are correct that they do not have a right to an unblocked signal. Just as none of us have a right to accurate weather forecasts and real time tracking of dangerous weather.
Who cares if a couple of people get killed, that's just the price of progress.
4TimesAYear says:
I don't think the NWS is exaggerating it at all. It's been my experience that they were all on board with the climate change/green energy agenda. If anything, they've been underrating the problem.
Maybe people will have to go back to looking out for themselves like they did prior to weather radar?
Yet another reason to hate the bird choppers.
Stephen Singer says:
This is LIFE threatening to all who live in the tornado zone from Colorado to the Eastern US and from Canadian border to Gulf Coast. They turbines should be forced off line from April to about October. Otherwise some are going to lose their lives during tornado season.
theboardcarpenter says:
The turbine interference shows up on our local radar in Macon Illinois.
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They have known this for years. They were reporting this 11-12 years ago when I still had cable and the meteorologist of the station I watched reported on it. It's just too bad the MSM wasn't on the ball with it.
As I recall, in the U.S. Submission to the UNFCCC, c.2014 which is available online, the U.S. "promised" to double the number of wind turbines in the U.S.
This UNFCCC Submission is from the U.S. State Department.
GlobalChange. Gov
'2014 CAR United States Climate Action Report 2014', About 300 pages.
Click on the Report.
https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/reports/us-climate-action-report-2014
'2014 CAR United States Climate Action Report 2014'
U.S. Biennial Report
2. A Commitment To Act
Reduce U.S. GHG Emissions
"setting a new goal to double electricity generation from wind and solar power"
Use above link for the 2014 Report.
The White House, March 31, 2015
'FACT SHEET: U.S. Reports its 2025 Emissions Target to the UNFCCC'
Scroll down to: Building on Progress
Includes: ",doubling solar and wind electricity,"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/31/fact-sheet-us-reports-its-2025-emissions-target-unfccc
observa says:
Wind energy output for Australia for April-
http://anero.id/energy/wind-energy/2018/april
…and the doomsdayers cheer as they blow up bankrupted coal fired power stations paying for that. These people are evil, insane or morons or some combination of all three.
MarkW (April 29, 2018 at 5:25 pm)
A popular myth, but it isn't true.
Airplane wings propel a mass of air particles in a downward direction creating an equal and opposite force to the underside of the wings, producing what we call "lift."
In the same way, a rocket provides lift by propelling a mass of particles downwards.
This is why a stunt plane can fly .. upside down,
without being sucked to the ground by the over-hyped Bernoulli effect:
http://www.cap-ny153.org/forceslift.htm
Stunt planes have symmetric wings.
SocietalNorm says:
Therefore, we must cut down all the windmills. If it could save only one child…
Sandy In Limousin says:
This story from 2014 is interesting. I attended the planning meeting in 2911/12 and spoke against the development. Also against was the management of East Midlands Airport, because the turning blades would interfere with radar. Despite that the construction went ahead.
£7m wind turbines at standstill over radar fears
Two wind turbines installed six months ago at a cost of £7 million have still not been switched on because they would compromise safety at a nearby airport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/10828204/7m-wind-turbines-at-standstill-over-radar-fears.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-28801668
At the end of this last year they finally started producing electricity in, what for windturbines in Central England is normal quantities. How much the solution cost is not available.
http://www.aveillant.com/news/turbines-near-east-midlands-airport-start-generating-power-help-aveillants-radar/
Unfortunately wind turbine madness is alive and well in rural France.
Crispin in Waterloo but really in London says:
Why not paint the blades with a radar absorbing material like stealth fighters? The radar is unsophisticated and not designed to spot stealth technology.
The radar pings would disappear and the weather would shine through, so to speak.


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New Jersey Transit's safety record is atrocious. Thanks to years of reduced funding and neglected capital improvements — and Gov. Chris Christie's penchant for using the agency as a dumping ground for politically connected hacks — NJ Transit's rail system is approaching Third World status.
And the Gateway Project — the critically important new rail tunnels to supplement the existing 100-year-old tunnels beneath the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York — is going nowhere fast at the moment. The project could cost $25 billion to $35 billion and take approximately a decade to finish, but the federal government has not committed to funding a share of the work.
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Last week's NTSB report also cited sleep apnea as a key factor in a similar 2017 Long Island Rail Road train crash in Brooklyn.
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, sleep apnea — which has been cited as a factor in six rail accidents since 2011 — "can occur when the upper airway becomes blocked repeatedly during sleep, reducing or completely stopping airflow." People suffering sleep apnea are at higher risk for "cognitive and behavioral disorders, such as decreases in attention, vigilance, concentration, motor skills, and verbal and visuospatial memory," the institute says.
Diagnosing and treating sleep apnea is neither complicated nor expensive. But, last year, as part of its effort to streamline government, President Donald Trump's administration killed regulations implemented under President Barack Obama that required sleep apnea screening nationwide for engineers and other transportation workers. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is currently leading an effort to pass legislation that would make sleep apnea testing mandatory once again.
To its credit, NJ Transit introduced an aggressive (although a little late) sleep-apnea screening program for its 370 engineers a year after the Hoboken accident. But a state program does nothing to protect the public from fatigued Amtrak or freight-train engineers — or fatigued truck drivers, for that matter. Clearly, a national sleep-apnea screening requirement is needed for all critical transportation workers.


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The Buffalo Sabres finished last place with a record of 25-45-12 for 62 points. They also finished last in NHL scoring with only 199 goals. Buffalo has missed qualifying for the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons, dating back to 2010-11.
Off-Season Moves
The Buffalo Sabres were very busy this offseason. At the 2018 draft, they selected top prospect Rasmus Dahlin with the first overall pick.
On the trade front, the Sabres acquired forward Conor Sheary and defenseman Matt Hunwick from the Pittsburgh Penguins for a conditional fourth-round pick. They also shipped star centre Ryan O'Reilly to the St. Louis Blues for veteran forwards Vladimir Sobotka and Patrik Berglund, prospect Tage Thompson, a 2019 first-round pick, and a 2021 second-round pick. Buffalo also acquired Jeff Skinner from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for prospect Cliff Pu, a 2019 second-round pick, a 2020 third-round pick, and a 2020 sixth-round pick.
In addition to these transactions, Buffalo signed unrestricted free agents Carter Hutton, Scott Wedgewood, and Scott Wilson.
Returning Stars
Jack Eichel, 21, and Rasmus Ristolainen, 23, are two returning stars to watch for in Buffalo this season. Eichel is the face of the franchise, so long as he can stay healthy. He led all Sabres in points last season with 64 (25g, 34a)and tied for the team lead in goals despite missing 15 games because of injury. Last season, Ristolainen led the Sabres on the blueline. He recorded 41 points in 73 games played.
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Alexander Nylander (cover photo), Buffalo's 2016 first-round draft choice (eighth overall) scored two goals in Buffalo's 4-1 exhibition win over Columbus on Monday night. Having played seven games for the Sabres in the previous two seasons, Nylander is ready. and Casey Mittelstadt, 19, are two Sabre prospects to keep an eye on this season. Dahlin was the undisputed top prospect at this year's draft. Mittelstadt was drafted eighth overall in 2017. Both bring offensive talent to a Sabres team who struggled offensively last year.
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Three New Yorkers die from fentanyl-laced cocaine ordered from same delivery man
By Meenakshi Sengupta
Kaylen Rainey (L) delievered the drugs to the victims - Amanda Scher, Julia Ghahramani, and Ross Mtangi (L-R) (Ross Mtangi/Facebook, Headway website and Dignity Memorial)
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY: Exposing the dangers of cocaine laced with fentanyl, Wall Street Journal on October 23 highlighted three professionals who died in March 2021 after receiving cocaine orders from a delivery service. The three victims were Ross Mtangi, a 40-year-old Credit Suisse Group AG trading executive, Julia Ghahramani, a 26-year-old Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lawyer, and Amanda Scher, a 38-year-old social worker.
According to Wall Street Journal, the three individuals texted the DoorDash-style cocaine delivery service. Fentanyl, a legal opioid prescribed to people with severe pain, was mixed into the cocaine delivered by the service. Following this, Mtangi, Ghahramani, and Scher died on March 18, 2021. Suspects Billy Ortega, Kaylen Rainey, and William Drayton were each charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine on February 1, 2022, NY Post reported and further stated that the 35-year-old Ortega acted as a dispatcher for the operation and sent Rainey at three different Manhattan addresses to make the deals.
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Commenting on the arrest at that time, US Attorney Damian Williams said, "As alleged, the defendants operated an on-demand delivery service for the distribution of highly addictive and dangerous drugs. The cocaine distributed by defendants Ortega and Rainey on behalf of their delivery service was laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, and as alleged, caused the deaths of three victims on a single day. Thanks to the tireless efforts of law enforcement, the defendants' deadly delivery service is out of business."
Who is Kaylen Rainey?
Prosecutors allege that Ortega, who was a stay-at-home dad, was selling drugs out of his house in rural New Jersey and used a courier, Rainey, to deliver the drugs. Rainey was living in a Manhattan apartment registered to Ortega's family, receiving text message instructions for deliveries from Ortega, as per Wall Street Journal. Investigators recovered text messages between the customers and the drug dispatcher. Ghahramani sent a text to Ortega, "Can u come thru?" To which he replied, "I'll send them right now if you want." Ghahramani said, "That would be great thank you really appreciate it." "No worries we family," Ortega responded. After a few minutes, Rainey arrived at Ghahramani's apartment. Hours later, she received two texts from Ortega's number, followed by seven calls that night and the next morning. She was found dead when one of Ghahramani's friends went to her apartment later that day, March 18, 2021, and found her with her phone in her hand. Rainey was caught on CCTV footage in the elevator of Ghahramani's apartment before ringing the bell and allegedly delivering the drugs. However, Rainey, along with Ortega pleaded not guilty to causing the three deaths and distributing drugs. And Drayton acted as a dispatcher for the cocaine operation but was not believed to be involved in the three deaths.
Deaths related to cocaine
New York City health department data show that out of 980 deaths related to cocaine use in 2020, 81 percent included fentanyl, according to Independent. On the other hand, US deaths attributed to drug overdoses topped 100,000 last year for the first time, the CDC reported on May 11, 2022. The CDC said there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021, a 15 percent increase over the previous record of 93,655 set in 2020. Drug overdose deaths rose 30 percent from 2019 to 2020. Deaths from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, rose to 71,238 in 2021 from 57,834 in 2020. According to DailyMail, in 2021, the US Department of Justice filed about 2,700 cases involving crimes related to the distribution of fentanyl and similar synthetic drugs.
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