Posted on 10/02/2022 12:56:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
— Anthony Grande moved away from Fort Myers three years ago in large part because of the hurricane risk. He has lived in southwest Florida for nearly 19 years, had experienced Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017 and saw what stronger storms could do to the coast.
Grande told CNN he wanted to find a new home where developers prioritized climate resiliency in a state that is increasingly vulnerable to record-breaking storm surge, catastrophic wind and historic rainfall.
What he found was Babcock Ranch — only 12 miles northeast of Fort Myers, yet seemingly light years away.
Babcock Ranch calls itself “America’s first solar-powered town.” Its nearby solar array — made up of 700,000 individual panels — generates more electricity than the 2,000-home neighborhood uses, in a state where most electricity is generated by burning natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel.
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Well, right there is a big reason.
The delicate nature of panels, is one of the reasons I am considering building with the Tesla roof. This is the roof, not a panel to be installed on top of the roof, then removes and reinstalled every time you replace your roof
https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
They are super tough, more expensive than a panel, but cheaper than a roof + panel
If solar panels are indestructible to hurricanes shouldn’t they build their houses out of them?
What about tornadoes
Please share this one with everyone. Next to shutting down the food supply, this is their OTHER BIG SCAM! VOTE DEMOCRAT!
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THE COMING GREEN ELECTRICITY NIGHTMARE!
An excerpt for your consideration:
To cite just one example, just those 2,500 wind turbines for New York electricity (30,000 megawatts) would require nearly 110,000 tons of copper – which would require mining, crushing, processing, and refining 25 million tons of copper ore ... after removing some 40 million tons of overlying rock to reach the ore bodies. Multiply that times 50 states – and the entire world – plus transmission lines.
How many processing plants and factories would be needed? How much fossil fuel power to run those massive operations? How many thousands of square miles of toxic waste pits all over the world are under zero to minimal environmental standards, workplace safety standards, and child and slave labor rules?
How many dead birds, bats, and endangered and other species would be killed off all across the USA and world – from mineral extraction activities, wind turbine blades, solar panels blanketing thousands of square miles of wildlife habitats, and transmission lines impacting still more land?
What’s the maintenance cost on that field ?
The lines may have been buried like they do in Texas (tornado alley).
Most homes are built there with reinforced concrete blocks (filled mortar blocks), hurricane resistant doors and windows and 6 anchor shingles. The developers also included storm shutters upon request.
Only a few homes in the early build stage were damaged. The rest are standing.
An owner in the community created a video showing the before, during, and after.
It’s further south of that marker. Go to Founder’s Square at Babcock Ranch, that will put you in the area of the development.
I mean, I like solar and if you can swing powering your house with it, great.
But its not impervious to hurricanes, kinda like the article implies.
Sounds like it is very new and nothing has had to endure years of wear and tear. No aging components to deal with yet, and corrosion hasn’t set in.
While I like my solar panels for heating pool water, and they even do it too well if you don’t turn the water off- they aren’t electrical, so there isn’t much to go wrong, although I wouldn’t expect them to survive a cat 3.
Revisit the neighborhood in 15 to 20 years.
The Brooklyn Bridge is still standing too. I’m not buying this crap.
Tornadoes also
CNN found a new kind of Bull Crap.
Their Channel is SAVED.
They have found new life in SOLAR PANELS. The fake solar community, which will destroy comfortable living as we know it.
Perhaps they found a good way to dispose of the stupid panels when they fall apart.
BWAHAHAHAHA.
All the new houses on the other side of the lake have massive solar panels on their roof. Need to drive by and see what happened to them.
100% untrue. Maybe get facts.
Whoa, slow down everybody, I got it wrong.
I had windy.com enlarged trying to track down the actual windspeed, not what was being blasted out by the “news.”
I just thought I was looking at the Tampa Bay area.
I was talking about it here...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4096711/posts?page=41#41
How dare you?
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Interesting graph. What’s the black line?
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