Posted on 06/29/2023 6:44:04 AM PDT by Paul46360
The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 MW Community Solar project was part of the NPPD’s Sunwise program that consisted of an array has over 14,000 solar panels. It’s reported that it had been put into operation in 2019.
Surely the project had been ceremoniously put into operation, with dignitaries and proponents proclaiming it would reliably deliver cheap and clean energy, reduce the state’s carbon footprint and contribute to a bright and climate-friendly future.
Now it has been just recently reported that the multimillion dollar solar energy park was literally reduced to a heap of rubble as hail literally pummeled it to a pulp in just a matter of minutes days ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at notrickszone.com ...
Don’t the dents start to repair themselves? Our minivan got hit years ago, not to that extent, but I can’t see them anymore.
Not that I can tell. It still looks like it did when it got hit. We probably just get used to it and live with it.
LOL...that’s such a classic! Imagine whale guts falling on you!
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Would seem the LORD treated this attempt just as
He did the Tower of Babel. And yet the fools continue
to try.
And since you can’t recycle the stuff, you have to bury it like those windmill blades.
There is a huge field of I-70 near my house that used to grow corn and beans that is now covered with solar panels. The first time I saw it I knew all it would take is one hailstorm. Won’t be long.
Will finish those off in round #2
“I added $40/year to my homeowner’s insurance to cover the cost of replacing solar panels “
When I built both of my arrays, the panels and solar stuff were included in the dwelling total. I just added the 50k or so as an increase of the dwelling value.
Then after both projects were done (4 years apart) the glorious insurance outfit, Florida Farm Bureau, renewed and excluded any and everything solar. They now want an additional $500 a year. Agent took photos and even sent me an email saying my coverage ‘is bound.’
Three weeks later he was back pedaling. No coverage at that photo date. It has to ‘wait for the renewal date.’
Renewal date comes and premium for basic h/o jumps from $3500 a year to $7500 a year.
Needless to say, nada, I will self insure.
The Achilles Heal of solar panel fields is that a crop duster plane with a load of pebbles can disable it easily.
Nothing to see here since the fractured glass will now increase the refraction and work like a magnifying glass. /S
” If one panel goes bad the entire string would go down”
Got like 10 strings here, various inverters. 120 panels total on property. Never had one panel go bad — yet. 12 years on some this fall.
Dang it! Wonder what’s gonna happen to the 30 million acre wind farm in the Gulf when a Cat 5 wanders through.........
Liberals. Sheesh.
“Won’t be long.”
Ironic that the exposure to nature is 24/7/365. Too bad you can’t shutter panels for the 12 hours a day (or more) when they are dead weight and no sunlight hits them at all.
Also at risk are the inverters that are tied to the grid. Lightning can hit the grid, utility lines, 24/7 and damage an inverter, even when it sits idle overnight.
“crop duster plane with a load of pebbles can disable it easily.”
Or Chinese balloons carrying ??? Who knows what.
I like the Quaise project. Straighttforward, easy to understand, only one big technical hurdle - the hole. I do wish they would provide more updates - last one was in January.
The solution is indeed obvious. All they have to do is build a sturdy steel roof or canopy over the solar panels at the time of installation. I’m surprised nobody thought of that.
Easy-peasy. Gorilla glass covers for the panels.
I'm not a greedy man, I'll settle for millions...
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