You just can’t mess with Homeland Security and their radars, even if you’re a state-of-the-art renewable energy entrepreneur who builds huge wind turbine fields for a living. It looks like national security can be affected by badly-posted wind turbines, since they can interfere with radars through the doppler effect they create.

But because every issue has its solutions, Analytic Graphics Inc. (AGI), software designer for space, defense and intelligence systems, is teaming with Raytheon Network Centric Systems and Remcom, performing electromagnetic simulations, will approach this one and create improved wind turbine fields.

“We are pleased that Raytheon has selected AGI’s precision geometry engine to aid the important mission of allowing our wind farms and radar systems to coexist without hindering national security,” says Peter Sardella, AGI vice president of Services.

“Raytheon’s 60-year legacy in the design and manufacture of radar systems strongly qualifies us to provide an innovative solution to the problem,” said Andy Zogg, Raytheon Network Centric Systems vice president of Command and Control Systems. “With the introduction of our highly reliable tool, (Homeland Security) will be able to better manage approvals of wind farm applications, allowing for clean and renewable wind energy resources.”

All of the new applicants who will want to place their wind turbine field one place or another will have to pass this kind of approval in the future, so their plan does not interfere with the U.S. national security standards.

In some parts of the world – particularly in the USA; line drying can be the exception rather than the norm, with gas/electric clothes dryers being the preferred method.

Figures from the USA department of energy show that around 90% of American homes have a clothes dryer, with the average family using it an incredible 400 times a year.

Aside from the obvious reasons for the absence of a clothes line, such as apartment dwellers not having the space; the reasons for other households in the USA can be a little more obscure – such as neighborhood associations banning line drying  under restrictive convenants for aesthetic reasons.

While a clothes line may never be a work of art; I think in this day and age of environmental awareness and issues relating to climate change; banning line drying from back yards is .. well… just plain silly.

To read more go to:  http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/254/1/Line-drying-and-clothes-lines.html

“It was a natural fit for us to combine 100% clean energy with our nearly completed, groundbreaking energy efficiency retrofit work,” Anthony E. Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings, which runs the building, said in an announcement. This way, the energy consumption is reduced and more customers are attracted by the low prices.
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