Posted on 10/14/2024 2:05:38 PM PDT by george76
For comparison, the "Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center" in Maryland (two unit nuclear power station) occupies 1500 acres and generates 1790 MWe at 96% capacity factor.
Solar: 0.118 MW/acre at less than 50% capacity factor
Nuclear: 1.19 MWe/acre at 96% capacity factor
Milton spawned at least 38 tornados.
Geez, NOT safe and effective? Wait until they install those 30 million acres of wind mills off LA and TX. What could possibly go awry?
I bet it was quite a light show if the damage occurred during daylight hours.
380 acres of land covered up to power 12000 homes …at peak, somehow just doesn’t seem worth it when you still need to power those homes on cloudy days and at after sunset.
God, I’m tired of this excrement. Not picking on you, George 76. I’m a retired biomed engineer and physcicist. I’ve been playing with two-axis tracking panels (not on my roof) just ‘cause I can. Lived on an ex-Norwegian CG cutter for a few years, and have three wood-burning sources of heat in my central FL home, Non replicate redundancy for propane or 240VAC. Leanred that principle from the army and my PhD advisor!
I grew up on a ND farm cooking on wood and using an outhouse...
The Gateway Pundit ranks down with Slate and below The Atlantic as far as I am concerned. Counter-productive extremism. They are lazy and they will lie. Reflects badly on conservatism.
As a FL resident, I’ve been following this and the grid in general. Aerial views are consistent with tornado damage. Duke Energy has published IR photos of the arrays, showing which segments of the field can still produce (bluntly, I’m surprised at the output).
FL resiliancy is fine. The loss of even 50% of this field has nothing to do with power restoration (I should not write this, but somebody else beat me to the 150’ of aluminum 14.4kV conductor down on the county road at the next lot south.) The grid here in FL is still remarkably in good shape as far as baseline and daily variable generation. It is the distribution system that took a hit. My (Putnam) county has several of these damnable solar arrays that do nothing but increase my monthly bill. We are poor, agricultural, and land is cheap.
The way I read the article and doing some research, I came to the conclusion that the solar plant could power 24000 homes for possibly half a day weather permitting. Regardless if my math is wrong the solar farm and the wiring infrastructure has to be rebuilt and won’t be back on line anytime soon.
This gets me asking ... did they somehow not know that hurricanes go through Florida from time to time and that they would need wind survival to 150 or 160 or whatever?
It’s sort of like forgetting that Texas sometimes has baseball-sized hail, which has also destroyed a solar farm.
“...what happens if the “company” is bakrupt by then?”
That is the plan
If, I have seen damages after tornadoes, and it looks exactly like that.
Milton spun off few tornadoes, this must be one.
Geez. With all the hurricanes, tornados, hail and snow you’d think they’d learn to bring the darn things inside during bad weather so they would last longer.
shocking...
To be fair that’s a text book tornado path and by the same text book you can also rate the power of the tornado on the Fujita scale since the enhanced scale directly uses damages in the ground to rate the tornado. That was at least a F3 because it bent steel posts not many things survive an F2+ tornado. Milton had record numbers of tornadoes on the ground at least 125 warnings with radar or visually spotted.
Hail has destroyed other solar panels.
A normal power plant would still be running 24/7 after a storm.
Correct.
I believe the official count is 19.
I wonder what happened to the solar field in Pasco county.
I hope someone will be monitoring for soil and water contamination issues resulting from this...
What is “Solar Panel World” in Chinese?
The left wants / likes soil and water contamination . = War on food / family farmers.
America lost 140,000 farms in the past 5 years .
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