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Pictures: Look What a Few Punishing Minutes of Baseball-Sized Hail Did to Massive Nebraska Solar Farm(follow up?)
westernjournal.com ^ | 6/29/2023 | Johnathan Jones

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:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Philosophy; US: Nebraska; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: bidenomics; bribinomics; climageddon; gangreen; hail; hailstorm; naturalselectlion; nebraska; power; scottsbluff; solar; solarfarm; solarpower; solarproject; wind
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To: xp38

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.


21 posted on 07/01/2023 8:15:15 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: DariusBane

Nah, no glyphosate. Just 1,000 illegales with battery-powered weed whackers working 18 hours a day.


22 posted on 07/01/2023 8:15:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: rktman
All they need to do is put a clear plexiglass roof over it, then use Roundup to control the weeds underneath. What could possibly go wrong?

Bug question; could they make the roof out of recycled plastic Walmart bags?

23 posted on 07/01/2023 8:22:49 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: rktman

Libtard Power Supply


24 posted on 07/01/2023 8:27:11 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: texas booster

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


25 posted on 07/01/2023 8:30:47 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

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.


26 posted on 07/01/2023 8:32:07 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: dfwgator

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.


27 posted on 07/01/2023 8:33:13 AM PDT by sport
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To: DariusBane

“ 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


28 posted on 07/01/2023 8:34:56 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: rktman

Breaking news?


29 posted on 07/01/2023 8:44:20 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: rktman

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.


30 posted on 07/01/2023 8:48:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: GMThrust

Maybe someone mounted some undamaged replacement panels to provide a “before and after” reference.


31 posted on 07/01/2023 8:49:26 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: rktman

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.


32 posted on 07/01/2023 8:49:28 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: GMThrust
Tell us what is odd.


33 posted on 07/01/2023 8:51:24 AM PDT by deport
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To: texas booster
Wonder if it was insured?

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.

34 posted on 07/01/2023 8:54:09 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

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.


35 posted on 07/01/2023 8:57:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: rktman

“Hail? Hail? Oh sh*t, we forget about hail!”


36 posted on 07/01/2023 8:59:45 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: dfwgator

Yes, we get hailstorms.


37 posted on 07/01/2023 9:00:22 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Signalman

Oh sh*t, we forget about hail!”

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Well they got a reminder it seems.


38 posted on 07/01/2023 9:03:48 AM PDT by deport
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To: GMThrust

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.


39 posted on 07/01/2023 9:06:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rktman

God’s Will.


40 posted on 07/01/2023 9:15:20 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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