Energy Transmission Absurdity
Writing at CowboyStateDaily.com, Kevin Killough reports that a 5.2 megawatt solar array outside Scottsbluff, Nebraska was destroyed Monday by a supercell thunderstorm which produced baseball-size hail.
Man, nobody could’ve possibly seen that one coming, right? More
Ha, ha, ha.
That answers that question. now for the demolition and disposal costs….
Dang.
It just keeps getting stupider and expensiver and stupider and expensiver.
To quote Bob Uecker, “Just a bit outside”. ⚾️
I have a solar array that tracks the sun all day for better efficiency. It’s been out in the weather for 8+ years, knock on wood, its never been damaged by weather, here in, very high taxes land, in up state NY.
I’m hoping for a tornado to take out the damn windmills. I hate those things. Every time I go to Norfolk, I pass a bunch of them.
Next up, chicken coop mesh used as protective cover for solar panels.
They put a bunch of these on some prime farm land near me. Acres and acres of solar panels.
Here’s the other absurdity – what do they do to keep the weeds and trees from sprouting up in-between the rows of collectors? Gas powered lawn equipment! Yep! The electric stuff doesn’t have the run-time…
The concept worked in the lab. Nobody told us there would be weather.
Why does alternative clean energy have massive environmental issues in its manufacturing and disposal processes?
Perhaps I’m missing something or just plain stupid.
@ Different Tim
Quite simple…..$$$$$
No different tim, you aren’t missing anything.
The idiots in power are forcing this to decrease our power usage so they can control us easier.
It’s opposite world.
It’s all part of the ‘30 minute city’ crap. That’s why they aren’t concerned about the short ranges on electric vehicles; only need juice for short trips.
I was going to say something about, “couldn’t the solar panels be protected with plexiglass”, buuuuut…..after reading some of the above comments, nebbermind.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I mean — gosh, that’s a shame.
here’s a better pic
https://twitter.com/WxWyDaryl/status/1673830414329454592
it goes on & on … like a Star Wars intro
@Woodman
Plastics like plexiglass degrade due to the UV light. That’s why the car headlights that have been around since the 80s get faded and yellowed over time.
That’s also why car windshields are made of two layers of tempered glass sandwiching a plastic core. The glass is not damaged by the sun and it protects the plastic core. The plastic core keeps the glass from shattering if struck.
Oh hail no!
I don’t think the major insurance regulators insure for either hail nor abject idiocy
Duct tape! Should fix ‘er up good as new.
Flex Seal!
It takes more than 20 years for the investment in solar to pay for itself.
I’m a betting this installation is maybe five years old.
Some taxpayers lost a lot of money here.
We need to appropriate enough funds to construct roofs over all these solar farms.
In Milwaukee, they made a solar panel farm under a pair of 1000′ TV towers. Nobody thought about ice falling in the winter…
@ Ghost of Burner
“Nobody thought”
You could nave left it at that.
I have solar panels and if even a corner of a panel is shaded the output of the panels falls dramatically. There’s nothing you could put over them except maybe bullet proof glass. So there’s another million dollars an acre.
Haw Haw Ha Ha Haw Haw Haw….(laugh sound from Mule Skinner Blues)