Posted on 07/25/2023 9:15:40 AM PDT by rktman
A two to three minute hail storm in Nebraska wiped out 15,000 solar panels. No word if they were insured or under warranty.
Good luck getting home insurance in Florida, period.
I see solar panels on roofs here in DFW and I think, “Sucks to be you when the next hailstorm comes.”
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Someone decided to jump on the GriftTrain to “Save the Planet” and is building a solar farm on the Gulf Coast out here. Besides HAIL damage, I’m wondering how aerodynamic a solar panel is once it’s ripped from its support by 50 to 120 mph winds of a tropical storm or hurricane.
How far will it fly?
I hear youtube’s Project Farm voice “Let’s Find Out!”
bttt
There was a heartwarming pic a couple weeks ago of a Nebraska solar facility totaled by baseball sized hail. Hail, of course, caused by glow-bull warming no doubt. 🤔😳
Do we have a simple pounds of carbon dioxide per total kilowatt hour produced over a specified (and assumed) lifespan, for the silicon panels?
That’s the number needed.
Yes, and people might think all of that is a “one-time cost” to produce the solar cell, but solar cells have a pretty limited lifetime. Once it breaks, you get all those emissions all over again when you replace it.
Bttt
That number would vary greatly depending on the location and placement of the panels and maintenance to keep them clean and in good repair. Rest assured that the assumptions made by proponents are based on the panels being placed in mounts that track the sun from sunrise to sunset in a place that has no clouds, low humidity, and pollution and is close to the equator... It is not possible to rely on the numbers being supplied by manufacturers or proponents. Everything related to “renewable energy” is exaggerated to the nth degree.
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