by Lieven
By Jo Nova
It’s the New Zero-Defence Strategy — where we build the shields to hide the enemy’s bombs
If Britain (or Australia) ever needed to build an iron dome to protect itself, it’s a shame that giant rotating objects interfere with the radar.
A senior defense source has told the Daily Mail that Britain is a sitting duck:
Ed Miliband’s wind farms could cripple UK ‘Iron Dome’ anti-missile systems
By Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, Daily Mail
Britain is a ‘sitting duck’ in the face of drone attacks because Ed Miliband’s wind farms interfere with radar-based defensive domes, senior defence sources have claimed.
Ministers have been warned the UK lacks any equivalent to Israel‘s famous ‘Iron Dome’, which gives it the capability to intercept ballistic missiles at high altitude from 40 miles away.
The source added: ‘Wind farms are effectively giant chunks of metal that stand in the way of way of the tracking stations. It’s fair to say wind-farms and radar are not a great mix.
Labour is committed to switching to 95 per cent clean power sources by 2030 – a goal that will require a tripling of current wind capacity. It could lead to the relaxation of planning rules governing turbine construction.
There will be excuses that the nature of war has changed and they couldn’t have seen this coming. Except that we already knew that offshore wind turbines interfered with the ship’s radar signals, and scrambled the Air Force radar. Three years ago RAF pilots were already using the turbines to help them hide in training exercises.
Sweden blocked 13 off shore wind farms in 2024 because it was worried it would get less warning of a Russian missile attack.
Luckily in Australia, we don’t need radar to see hostile attacks coming — we have Virgin airline pilots.
Thanks to the Daily Skeptic.
… and they’re even worse for sonar (both the man-made kind and the evolutionary kind). They render it all but useless because the background noise of the foundations vibrating is louder than pretty much anything else on or under the water. Which is also the reason that the area under wind farms are largely dead zones for sea life. The noise drives all the marine animals away and food chains get broken in that area.
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Spinning blades have been known to cause “interesting” radar returns since WW2. Especially if the lengths are a multiple of the wavelength. The Chinese certainly know this.
Back in the day it was known that rotating cooling fan blades would “mess” with police radar.
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I remember a friend stopped by NSW Police who alleged that he had an illegal radar detector hidden
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Those unintended consequences just keep cropping up. Hey Ed; nuclear and coal fired power stations do not interfere with homeland defence, in fact they are vital for it. Wind farms are toys for the rich and in these hard times should be thrown out of the cot and into the bin.
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In 1983-84, Australia imported 97.2 worth of refined petroleum products, which was 7.3 per cent of our total consumption. Everything else that we needed, the other 92.7 per cent, was produced in Australia.
The situation is almost totally reversed today. In 2023-24, we set a new record for reliance on imports. We now import or 78.5 per cent of our needs.
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I just learnt that the two remaining operational oil refineries in Australia are subsidised by Albanese Labor Government to avoid planned closure.
The closures are based on several problems beginning with UN Lima Protocol 1975 and UN Agenda 21 1990 and then emissions reduction targets from Kyoto Japan COP onwards, and Renewable Energy Target 32% 2007-2013 Labor in government period and so on.
Transition away from fossil fuels.
Combined includes Industrial Relations Laws Free Work Australia also 2017-2013 period.
And the latest and cause for Minister Bowen describing “dirty fuel” will be permitted during this crisis, the 2025 Clean Air Act and chemical composition, notably sulphur content, new regulations. But our vehicles used the claimed dirty fuel until 2025.
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Ghost stories abound in Australia of so called renewable energy installations vested interests and friends who are shareholders who created a Climate front non-government organisation and backed independent candidates for election to parliament as lobbyists
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So how long before Australia and the other OECD countries ban toxic,unreliable, unsafe and clueless wind farms?
And if not, why not? Don’t Aussies deserve protection from incoming missiles, just like Israel?
But don’t ask Labor, Greens or Teals parties because they’re too stupid to understand.
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So have the stupid OECD countries just wasted trillions of dollars for decades just to make themselves sitting ducks for every lethal incoming missile on earth?
What’s so attractive about their super expensive, toxic, unreliable rubbish that makes them the first choice of our clueless politicians?
And why are the toxic W & S rubbish always described as clean and green?
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A1: Yes.
A2: Follow the money.
A3: Because the safe and effective slogan was already taken?
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Australian-sourced petroleum has probably the LOWEST Sulphur content on the planet. For many years, Oz has imported “Diesel” fuel, “ready to rub”, from various overseas sources. Nobody seemed to have noticed or, for that matter, CARED.
The mandated introduction of catalytic converters to the exhaust system of a slew of vehicles. The “smell of diesel exhausts changed, with the with the resultant Sulphur Dioxide and other interesting goodies belching out in their uniquely environmentally-friendly way.
Our coal, though derived from an utterly different “process, is likewise low in sulphur; hence its apparently unacknowledged appeal to makers of “exotic” stainless steels like 416 & 316, 440 etc.
The presence of Sulphur seriously degrades the yield strength of these “aerospace-grade”materials.
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A3: NEVER attribute to incompetence, that which is CLEARLY MALICE.
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Even their clueless ABC have warned us about the danger from China in FEB 2025, when they fired live rounds off our coastline.
And the NZ defense minister etc warned us then about the lethal loads of missiles carried on these Chinese ships.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-24/chinese-warship-missiles-in-tasman-sea-nz-minister-warning/104973290
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BTW China plans to match the USA submarine fleet within 14 years and these missiles will carry nuclear warheads.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-building-fleet-attack-submarines-navy-intel-chief-says-sa-031226
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Don’t worry, we’ll be ok so long as we have those forward observers, the Virgin pilots.
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I’m not worrying . . . such cheap electricity ensures Australia is missile proof!
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Don’t forget those little porthole windows on the side of the plane. The passengers could be issued with sets of binoculars to give more lateral surveillance. Get off your phone and serve your country!
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Offshore wind farms are no longer viable.
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/offshore-wind-can-be-a-security-hazard-australia-needs-a-risk-assessment/
Andrew Hastie is against them, on security grounds.
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Is the site being hacked again?
Comments going AWOL, computer saying no, or the curse of St Patrick’s Day ☘️
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Maybe Jo could add a site header banner saying this site is mentioned in the Epstein files, so no-one will dare touch it again? 😆
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Go home Danish royals! I notice that their heinousnesses are promoting off-shore wind farms for Aussies. If they love hideous wind farms so much why don’t the get Danish wind tech company Orsted to fill the bucolic palace grounds with wind turbines fit for the adoring gaze of royal Danish windbags .
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Hopefully, this is another reason NOT to build the stupid things in Australia. But, we are the stupid country ,so it is still possible.
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How many wraps of detcord would it take to drop a windmill tower.
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Well, you would need the good “underwater-rated stuff, but a few wraps around the lower circumference should do the job, /saarc
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We must abandon these W & S disasters ASAP and the world will need 50% more energy in just 24 years. By 2050.
But here’s the latest data that proves we’ll still need fossil fuels for a long time to come.
W & S are a toxic joke today and fossil fuels still generate 81% + of our total global energy.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub
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How could that be, they are only clusters of wind turbines close to the height of a high-rise city building.
sarc
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It’s absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
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In Finland military has a final say whether wind farm can be build or not. As a consequence eastern part of country lacks wind mills.
Couple of months ago wind-power-people reached a new peak stupidity. They believed they have found a solution how military gear and wind mills can coexist. Those geniuses suggested that military can have their stuff on top of wind mill. I didn’t saw a single comment on that which was quite telling. You can comment medium-sized stupidity, but this was on totally different level.
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So, the off shore wind installations that demonstrably dont work (UK grid lurching from crisis to crisis after billions spent) will interfere with a UK iron dome that demonstrably doesn’t work (Tel Aviv)
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