The picture looks more like tornado damage rather than straight winds.
I wonder what that land can now be used for after solar panels get smashed to bits on it, besides another solar farm?
Could it ever go back to agriculture? What would be left behind?
Costly Solar Panels Destroyed in Florida, Leaving The Land Unfit to Grow Edible Food Ever Again.
It’s not about meeting energy demand but funneling tax money to the right people.
The loss of solar panels is just a loss of rate payer and tax payer dollars - plus embarrassment to advocates of the green new scam.
The amount of $ given for subsidies and tax breaks etc... (nationwide) could have been invested into natural gas plants that are far more cost efficient and not as susceptible to weather. But God forbid a realistic plan be followed. Between hail and hurricanes and general maintenance of these mega solar farms they prove to be just another temporary cash cow for a small group of people. Solar is perfect on a small scale , but any other application for the “grid” is a huge theft.
Electricity comes from walls.
Food comes from shelves.
Solar panels don’t work in blizzards either.
"Yes, I'm looking for 180,000 solar panels."
"Do you mean, 18 solar panels? Let me check Solar Panel World stock...."
"No, 180,000 panels!"
"You have got to be kidding! "Who is this?" "Is this a prank call? No one needs 180,000 panels!"
Well, duh!
And for those placed on roofs of individual homes, what do you think happens when plains spring thunderstorms pass through the area? Hail is much more common than a tornado.
Power rates to go through the roof.
The tens of billions we routinely send to foreign countries could have built new efficient power plants all over the U.S. Power/electricity could be very cheap. But under Communist rule in the U.S. it’s become very expensive and it keeps going up.
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
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.
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.
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.