Re: UK wind farm fights govt ban in court-Effect on Military Radar

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net>]

Hi Stew,

Thanks for the info. I think we at unplug salem should start a new group

called "Pass Wind"  (People Against Severely Scary Windmills Informed

for National Defense) to shut down all these dangerous windmills before

our country has a meltdown.  Now, just gotta find some foundation or

major donor nutty enough to fund this brilliant plan..;-)



peace

norm



SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM wrote:



> Subj: Check out Planet Ark : UK wind farm fights govt ban in court

>

> The British Ministry of Defence [MOD] has gone on record as opposing a

> large offshore wind farm because of the potential for radar

> interference on military radar. Since Radsafe is concerned with all

> aspects of radiation - nonionizing as well as ionizing, here is some

> food for thought.

>

> Click here: Planet Ark : UK wind farm fights govt ban in court

>

> Of interest, if windfarms indeed do interfere with military radar, a

> large windmill or grouping of them might  also interfere with civilian

> radar leading to an airplane accident. If a commercial airliner then

> goes off course shortly after takeoff fully laden with fuel,  and hits

> something unintended, according to the anti-nukes guidebook "Nuclear

> Obstructionism for Dummies" it will be a nuclear power plant [or a

> spent fuel cask wending its way toward Yucca]. Of course, a skyscraper

> could get hit but as we've learned from the World Trade Center

> "incident",  airliners hitting tall buildings, petrochemical and LNG

> storage tanks, chemical plants,  etc.,  isn't as much of a concern to

> anti-nuke activists as the threat to reinforced concrete structures at

> commercial nuclear power plants.

>

> As is obvious [if you think like the anti nukes] an airliner hitting a

> nuclear plant of course would lead to a China Syndrome scenario and

> breach of containment with the resultant accident contaminating an

> area the size of Pennsylvania for 10,000 years. Bottom line, depending

> on your interpretation of these possibilities, the US must shut down

> all 100 commercial nukes quickly before windmill farms get built, or

> windmills will KILL [albeit through a rather farfetched but NOT

> impossible scenario]. The Windmill Farm Operation==>Radar Interference

> ==>Commercial Airliner Crash Into Nuclear Plant ==>Commercial Nuclear

> Plant Accident path would not happen if ! nuclear power plants did not

> exist and their current inventory of spent fuel were teletransported

> off the earth [a la Star Trek beam transport] since the waste cannot

> safely be shipped for disposal and is a terrorist target where it sits

> presently.

>

> The time for shutting down all nuclear power stations is now [if you

> buy into the "possibilities" above - TIC]. Have a great weekend.

>

> Stewart Farber

> email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com

> =========================



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