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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: Elsie
The pics eventually pop up. 😁
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posted on
07/02/2023 6:55:03 AM PDT
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rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: rktman
Why would anybody in their right mind put acres of solar array with thousands of expensive breakable panels in a state renowned for tornadoes and violent thunderstorms?
Oh, wait. Never mind. Simply asking the question answers it.
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posted on
07/02/2023 7:18:55 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
To: Gritty
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posted on
07/02/2023 7:43:44 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: sport
a busted windshield You mean like a cheerleader carwash?
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posted on
07/02/2023 8:27:18 AM PDT
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ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: texas booster
Yeah, let’s go solar.......................100%..............
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posted on
07/03/2023 6:55:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: 9422WMR
I hadn’t thought about that.
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07/03/2023 4:51:48 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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