Posted on 07/01/2023 7:45:30 AM PDT by rktman
Renewable energy is the alternative that Democrats and other environmental nuts want to replace reliable oil, gas and coal.
But time and time again, people who rely on wind and solar power have had to learn the tough lesson that such alternatives are both undependable and susceptible to the same elements they are supposed to harness.
Nowhere was that more true than in Nebraska, where a thunderstorm dumped baseball-sized hail on a solar farm on Friday at a speed of 150 mph — destroying the facility in just a few minutes.
Cowboy State Daily reported a storm moved east out of Wyoming where it wreaked havoc just across the state line on a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
The facility previously touted its benefits for the area on its website.
“Scottsbluff, Nebraska’s 5.2 MW Community Solar project is a part of NPPD’s Sunwise program,” the facility states. “The solar array has over 14,000 solar panels, which are installed on trackers that will follow the sun throughout the day.”
It doesn’t look like the panels will be tracking anything for the foreseeable future. The facility appears to be a total loss:
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
If they all truly believed that anthropomorphic CO2 production was about to destroy us, and that it might already be too late, they would support building new nuclear power plants to address this dire emergency.
Nah, no glyphosate. Just 1,000 illegales with battery-powered weed whackers working 18 hours a day.
Bug question; could they make the roof out of recycled plastic Walmart bags?
Libtard Power Supply
They should make the entire solar farm out of whatever those two remaining panels are made from.
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Couple years back, I had two cars parked side by side in my driveway when golf ball sized hail hit. One car had $14,450 damage (Insured, act of nature, no deductible) The other car had zero damage. Nature can do weird things.
Also beat up my house roof too, also insured
I don’t have any secret here. I should have worded the question better. I’ve been through many hailstorms, and just last year, one in Scottsbluff and I have never seen “pockets” such as the one in the photo, where every panel around it is trashed. Not sure what it is, but something seems off.
Sometimes we got hail. but I can’t ever recall a hailstorm.
Maybe a busted windshield, but not a lot of them. We had a lot of lightening strikes though. A lot of people learned what not to do in a Thunderstorm. Unfortunately for them they never got to demonstrate what they learned.
“ glycophosphate weed control ”
There is ZERO danger using Roundup.
Only one gullible jury found an issue with it.
People with critical thinking skills aren’t afraid of it
Breaking news?
Hail happens regularly. It’s a natural phenomenon and can’t be stopped. So solar panels in fields and on roofs will be destroyed regularly. Who pays? The idiot who put them up.
Maybe someone mounted some undamaged replacement panels to provide a “before and after” reference.
Looks to be a different solar facility. Article says that these were sun-tracking setups. The first damaged solar facility article here on FR appeared to be a non-tracking installation.
I hope not. These kinds of things make everyone’s insurance costs go up.
This is a very foreseeable event. And if you have solar panels on your roof, better make sure you are insured for hail storm damage.
I bought a two and a half gallon jug of concentrate and use it on the heavy side. If it were that dangerous, one might think it would be unavalable. Nope. Amazon shipped it right to my house.
“Hail? Hail? Oh sh*t, we forget about hail!”
Yes, we get hailstorms.
Oh sh*t, we forget about hail!”
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Well they got a reminder it seems.
It could be a recently replaced panel, assuming the photo was taken before aafter they started replacement but before they got to replace the next panel.
It could be that the panel had been replaced for whatever reason this year was just newer and less fragile than panels that have been there for many years, growing more brittle day by day. The fresh panels would naturally be more resistant to damage than old ones.
God’s Will.
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