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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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1 posted on 03/28/2024 11:13:03 AM PDT by Sam77
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To: Sam77

God has a sense of humor


2 posted on 03/28/2024 11:15:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Sam77
Quick read and no reason to fear dangerous chemicals seeping into the environment.

However, they did lose a lot of power generation and clean-up will be a bitch.

3 posted on 03/28/2024 11:17:54 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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To: Sam77

This topic came up with my brother (N Ala). Some guy showed up in the rural area about 6 weeks ago...trying to find someone with 1,000 acres and willing to let this ‘green’ company put a solar farm up. Lease deal....probably would have paid high sum of money.

Various folks approached....said ‘no’...over this precise issue of toxic stuff if hail storms come.

Some kind of gov’t grant is attached to the company doing this.


4 posted on 03/28/2024 11:18:15 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Sam77

I thought TX would have watermelon-sized hail, with everything being bigger there.


5 posted on 03/28/2024 11:22:32 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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To: Sam77
Hailstorms are a major source of insurance claims and insurance fraud.

Imagine being a new car dealer with 200 new cars sitting out on the lot when a storm rolls through. The inventory is all financed and, presumably, insured.

Crops suffer mightily from hail damage. The fraud occurs because invariably the evidence melts before the adjuster arrives..

6 posted on 03/28/2024 11:23:10 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Sam77

We just need a power generator that utilizes hail stones.


7 posted on 03/28/2024 11:24:27 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
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To: pepsionice

“”””” Lease deal....probably would have paid high sum of money”””””

I wonder what the ‘return to natural state’ situation becomes when the company takes all they can get from the solar operation and then moves on, or declares bankruptcy?


8 posted on 03/28/2024 11:24:48 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: pepsionice

They should be putting them on brownfield sites. They can’t be used for many uses without a lot of mitigation now.


9 posted on 03/28/2024 11:25:03 AM PDT by pas
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"I thought TX would have watermelon-sized hail."

That's racist.

10 posted on 03/28/2024 11:25:12 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Actually, even silicon based solar cells are considered hazardous waste. Not really that good for you, just less bad!


11 posted on 03/28/2024 11:25:40 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: PGR88

The achilles heel of solar farms will how easily they can be damaged. A crop duster plane loaded with marbles could disable a farm just like the hail did. Also a well aimed RPG could disable a wind mill blade. These vulnerabilities have to be considered before we blindly narch down the road of green energy.


12 posted on 03/28/2024 11:25:47 AM PDT by Cautious Optimism
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To: Sam77

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13 posted on 03/28/2024 11:26:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I once saw hail so big that it wiped out a herd of 6 foot jackalopes.


14 posted on 03/28/2024 11:26:25 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Sam77

Wow! A bunch of capitalists got together to buy the land and build this thing and offer the output to the public? Damnโ€ฆ


15 posted on 03/28/2024 11:30:16 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Sam77

Tell the greenies that “man-made climate change” destroyed the panels, let them stew on that for awhile.


16 posted on 03/28/2024 11:30:40 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: billorites

Circa 94 a huge hail storm went through Fort Worth. My car was destroyed. 1 billion in damage. The hail was size of grapefruit. I was parked in a lot full of cars at TCU. Responders triaged out those most seriously injured if you were out in open. Had to go to oky city to find an underaged new car.


17 posted on 03/28/2024 11:39:16 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit will not solve our problems now.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
I thought TX would have watermelon-sized hail, with everything being bigger there.

Obviously youโ€™ve never seen a Texas golf ball.

18 posted on 03/28/2024 11:40:57 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Sam77

God just sent the dirt worshipers a message.


19 posted on 03/28/2024 11:48:53 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Sam77

Golf ball-sized hail in West Texas is more akin to sleet.


20 posted on 03/28/2024 11:52:05 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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