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Sweden Scraps Plans For 13 Offshore Windfarms Over Russia Security Fears
Tuesday November 5, 2024. 04:30 AM , from Slashdot
The proposed windfarms would have been located between Aland, the autonomous Finnish region between Sweden and Finland, and the Sound, the strait between southern Sweden and Denmark. The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is only about 310 miles (500km) from Stockholm. Wind power could affect Sweden's defence capabilities across sensors and radars and make it harder to detect submarines and possible attacks from the air if war broke out, Jonson said. The only project to receive the green light to was Poseidon, which will include as many as 81 wind turbines to produce 5.5 terawatt hours a year off Stenungsund on Sweden's west coast. 'Both ballistic robots and also cruise robots are a big problem if you have offshore wind power,' Jonson said. 'If you have a strong signal detection capability and a radar system that is important, we use the Patriot system for example, there would be negative consequences if there were offshore wind power in the way of the sensors.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/05/0011207/sweden-scraps-plans-for-13-offshore-windfarms-o...
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