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Single Hail Storm Has Devastating Impact on Major Texas Solar Farm
Western Journal ^ | 28 March 2024 | Michael Schwarz

Posted on 03/28/2024 11:13:03 AM PDT by Sam77

Authoritarian climate crusaders most likely regard themselves as too enlightened, important and virtuous to heed cautionary tales about green energy. For everyone else, however, those tales remind us why we did not trust the crusaders in the first place.

According to ABC13 in Houston, a violent hailstorm on March 16 caused significant damage to the 3,300-acre Fighting Jays Solar Farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, prompting fears of possible leaking chemicals.

Local resident Nick Kaminski described the golf ball-sized hail, accompanied by heavy wind and rain.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: climatechange; solar; solarpower; texas
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To: Sam77

It never occurred to me that something could damage large sheets of glass sitting exposed in a field. This must be a one it 30 million chance.

21 posted on 03/28/2024 11:56:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: Mouton
My car was destroyed. 1 billion in damage.

Musta been one helluva a car.    =;^)

22 posted on 03/28/2024 11:59:59 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it woill defend itself.)
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To: Sam77

The subsidies paid to setup the solar farm are long gone. In the long run, the rate payers of TX are probably better off with these subsidized KWH off the grid.

Curious to know if an insurance company was stupid enough to insure the farm against hail. After the last big hail storm in the DFW area, all car dealers put in these fabric (kevlar?) covers over their lots, because the insurers wouldn’t cover otherwise.


23 posted on 03/28/2024 12:09:16 PM PDT by RedElement
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To: Fester Chugabrew
We do . You can only imagine the damage from one of those storms....
24 posted on 03/28/2024 12:10:38 PM PDT by RedElement
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Tiny Mellons...There everywhere.


25 posted on 03/28/2024 12:14:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A)
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To: Sam77

A single hail storm tore up half the roofs in my neighborhood, knocked down a crapload of trees, and made a lot of flooding that I’m sure did damage somewhere. Storms can get ugly, especially in the desert, we get mean nasty storms.


26 posted on 03/28/2024 12:16:46 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Sam77

According to my somewhat suspect calculations, that’s 5 square miles.


27 posted on 03/28/2024 12:20:43 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: pepsionice

It is not just hale storms, these materials leach out from solar panels naturally over time. Rendering the soil below it useless for generations.


28 posted on 03/28/2024 12:22:32 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The clean up will consist of taking them all down and burying them in a dump.


29 posted on 03/28/2024 12:27:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: RedElement
After the last big hail storm in the DFW area, all car dealers put in these fabric (kevlar?) covers over their lots . . .

That's the thing! Let's build solar farms and put covers over all of them. And we could build wind farms inside big hangars so that birds won't run into them. And . . . I mean, this green energy stuff just needs some creative thinking and it will be economical any day now.
30 posted on 03/28/2024 12:32:09 PM PDT by Phlyer
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To: Sam77

Huh!


31 posted on 03/28/2024 12:41:05 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Sam77

Awwww-wwww!


32 posted on 03/28/2024 12:51:08 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: TalBlack
Wow! A bunch of GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED "capitalists" got together to buy the land and build this thing and offer the output to the public? Damn…

Fixed it.

33 posted on 03/28/2024 12:54:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████s████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Sam77

See! See! I was talkin’ about this exact thing maybe 10 years ago. That and tornado’s. Any body got a line on free wind mill blades, I got a great idea for my garden out back.


34 posted on 03/28/2024 1:23:04 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: billorites

“I thought TX would have watermelon-sized hail.”
“That’s racist.”

Okay.... bowling ball sized hail.


35 posted on 03/28/2024 1:25:25 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: pepsionice

“Some kind of gov’t grant” is the only way these hucksters can make a profit. The entire green machine is powered by government money.


36 posted on 03/28/2024 1:27:57 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Quick read and no reason to fear dangerous chemicals seeping into the environment.

"Home solar panels, made of silicon and more expensive, include no dangerous chemicals.

"But large solar farms often use the cheaper and more dangerous cadmium telluride panels."

37 posted on 03/28/2024 1:46:44 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Sam77

Hope there are more of them.


38 posted on 03/28/2024 1:49:23 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: billorites

Texas watermelon!
Cadillac car!
We’re not as dumb
As you think we is!


39 posted on 03/28/2024 1:49:58 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

LOL!! That car could fly.....


40 posted on 03/28/2024 1:50:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A)
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