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Posted: 10:44 PM Apr 11, 2009
Wind Turbines Compete With Doppler Radar
Meteorolgists say wind turbines are interfering with their Doppler radar.
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It's the wind turbines versus Doppler radar in southern Wisconsin.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Ravinsky says a new energy wind farm in east-central Dodge County is interfering with the Weather Surveillance Doppler Radar at the Sullivan office in eastern Jefferson County.
He says visual noise from the 36 wind turbines at Butler Ridge could distort severe weather and reduce the effectiveness of storm warnings.
The wind farm is owned by an Australian power company called Eurus Energy America Inc. Babcock and Brown Power. Attempts by the Wisconsin State Journal to reach someone there who is knowledgeable about Butler Ridge were unsuccessful.
Ravinsky says he hopes new computer programs will be developed that can adjust for wind turbine rotors.
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