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West Coast wind farm, radar research required for bird migration patterns.

Johannesburg – Concerns over birds colliding with turbine blades on wind farms along the Cape West coast has prompted a study to monitor the movement of flocks there. The study would look at whether wind farms with 140m high turbine blades were an obstruction to birds moving between two wetlands, said ornithologist Dr Tony Williams in a statement. The exercise being carried out by local radar...

West Coast. Exxaro expects first output from wind farm in 2012

JSE-listed Exxaro Resources, which is investigating a range of renewable energy projects, said it could start generating wind power at its Brand-se-Baai project, on South Africa’s West Coast, within a year and a half, or mid-2012. Energy growth division business developer Chikoma Kazunga said on Wednesday that the project was in the prefeasibility stage and that the company had only started...

possible radar interference from wind turbines planned for the west coast.

British high-technology missions systems and information management company BAE Systems Insyte has been invited to, and will, bid for a South African requirement to investigate possible radar interference from wind turbines planned to be established on the country’s west coast. “Insyte has already done such a study for a wind farm planned to the east of London,” reports Insyte Head...

How Wind Turbines Work, Darling West Coast

Wind is a form of solar energy. Winds are caused by the uneven heating of the atmosphere by the sun, the irregularities of the earth’s surface, and rotation of the earth. Wind flow patterns are modified by the earth’s terrain, bodies of water, and vegetation. Humans use this wind flow, or motion energy, for many purposes: sailing, flying a kite, and even generating electricity. The terms...