Author: bravo22c

A question for our techie types.

An article in today’s newspaper refers to the act that there were objections to the building of new wind subsidy farms in certain areas because the rotating blades obscured military radars and interfered with the ability to detect incoming airborne threats.

I would have thought that it would not be beyond our current abilities to program the radar installations to ignore the windmills they can see? Granted, the turbine blades will not be turning at the same speed all the time, but the arcs they sweep will be constant? Surely it would not be that difficult to program the radars to distinguish between an object barrelling in at the speed of pffft and a known obstruction?

I await enlightenment.

Here’s a REAL surprise – Not!

Energy-saving light bulbs leap in price

The cost of energy saving light bulbs is rising sharply ahead of the European Union ban on the traditional 60-watt bulbs.

And, what’s more…’the CFLs that are replacing them (real light bulbs, you know, the ones that actually emit light you can read by,) contain small quantities of expensive rare earth elements. Makers say that growing demand for the substances, particularly in China where they come from, has forced prices upwards.

So, we get another ‘green’ solution that doesn’t work, it hoovers more money out of the pockets of taxpayers and sends it off to China.

I’m really glad I speak Chinese – should get me a good enough job oppressing the rest of you lot when the Chinese call in our national mortgage.