Posted on 07/01/2023 7:50:13 AM PDT by rktman
One of those “ unintended” consequences.
Dust mitigation is probably why it wasn’t mentioned. Devastating to the cause.
What a weak article. There is no explanation of why water usage went up. They mention construction requires water and they imply water is needed to wash construction dust off the panels once construction is complete, but that is not an on-going water need.
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Perhaps the writer just assumed that the reader would realize that when you put flat panels of glass up in the desert, they naturally collect lots of dust on a regular basis. Lots of dust, no kilowatts, no water, no life.
It’s on Youtube. The title is E-Bike explosion. T.O.B ebike burst into flame in first 3 miles. Beware of Mike Moser ebikes. The poster name is Jamie Bouchard.
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I watched a Youtube video yesterday that made me laugh. A guy just got his brand new $6,000 electric bicycle and was excited to ride it. He takes off down the road doing around 30mph. After 2 miles he came to a stop sign. There was a strange noise and some white smoke from the front brake. The smoke got much worse when he got off the bike. A lady passing the scene in a car asked if he needed help. The guy replied no, it’s just overheating. He takes the seat off and sticks his face towards the smoke and starts blowing on it as if that would cool it off. After smoking for a minute the bike was engulfed in flames. The owner was left on the roadside watching his bike burn to a crisp. He is lucky it didn’t light up when his face was close to the batteries. What a shame.
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I found a link. Guys a moron.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxr1iXEf9lY
Didnt happen using “Brave” browser.
Forget water. keep the dust down with oil . . . it's bio degradable and we don't need it to drink.
The Tater is getting advice from Jenny "Electric Tanks" Granholm, The US Bimbo of Energy.
Excellent information. Thanks. I forgot about the need to continuously wash the panels in the desert.
I read last week about the high temps in the UK knocking 25 to 30 points off the efficiency of the panels. I did not know that some panels are water cooled to prevent that. Do they spray a mist onto the surface of the panels and let evaporation cools the panel? Or do they use a closed-circuit with heat exchangers to avoid evaporation? Of course, you can’t simply reject heat to the desert air to cool the water — you need a refrigeration system.
They don’t work so well in the desert for the reasons you described. They don’t work so well in areas where you get the occasional hail storm. They don’t work on cloudy days. They don’t work at night. They don’t work when they are dirty. They leave a toxic mess when they reach the end of their lives.
What’s not to like?
How hard would it have been for the writer to say “The panels get dirty and need to be washed with LOTS of water every two weeks.”?
The 100% indicated in the following thread from April 2023 is suspicious for the following reason.
California’s water supply boosted to 100% for the first time since 2006 (4.21.23)
The 100% water supply is evidently referring to old reservoirs, not additional new reservoirs. The reason that this is significant is that it is being claimed that while California voters approved funds for water storage expansion about a decade back, it is also being claimed that no new water storage has been built.
Californians approved billions for new water storage. Why hasn’t it gotten built? (Non-FR; 1.16.23)
There's also this thread from 2022.
ENGINEERED FAMINE: California diverting water flows into the ocean, depriving rice farmers of necessary irrigation to grow food (5.31.22)
So have desperate Democrats weaponized California's water resources?
Regarding 2024 elections, it's up to Democratic and Republican pro-Trump MAGA patriots to initiate the final stage of Trump 47's second term mission to finish draining the swamp by primarying as many of our beloved state and federal lawmakers and executives as we can.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
In fact, given that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the unconstitutionally big federal government to dictate domestic policy is to run the Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers), the worst problem that the peacetime country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of freshman lawmakers is a delay with mail delivery.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Trump can endorse candidates that Constitution-savvy patriots recommend as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
C'mon, Man!
The envirowackos will pray to Gaia, and the wind farms will be spared. If one or more are damaged, they will, in their twisted minds, say it is further proof that Gaia is mad at the humans for not building more wind farms.
In a lot of AZ, your car get covered in dust daily. I can imagine the gallons used to clean off the solar panels daily.
If you leave a black car in AZ out in the sun, the interior temp is closer to “melt the steering wheel” than 100 degrees. I would guess about 120-130 even with windows cracked.
“””Account? I got straight to the article without an account. Weird.”””
I didn’t. WJ says I need to sign up to read.
LOL “it’s not on fire, it just overheated.” Thanks!
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