Vanity: Hail Storm Destroys Solar Farm in Texas

Vanity (Twitter) ^

[TigerClaws]

BREAKING: Hail storm in Damon texas on 3/24/24 destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar farms.

Who pays to fix this green energy? @StateFarm? @FarmBureau? @Allstate?

Or you the taxpayer?

[TigerClaws]

VANITY as not a 'sourced story' but thought some citizen reporters here may want to pick this up.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

First time I saw a hundred acre field of solar panels of I-70 my first thought was a hailstorm would make short work of it.

[waterhill]

I hope it was the one in Kaufman Coznty. They deserve it.

[algore]

I would assume they have insurance of some kind.

It is unfortunate that they did not have some kind of hail mitigation device, you know storm shutters as it were.

[quantim]

Yet money for the landfills, taxpayers/ratepayers screwed again. The chicoms are rejoicing that they’ll supply more.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Strangely, hail can smash up the glass covering the photovoltaic cells and they will still work. I worked at a sporting clays range and the trap batteries were kept charged by solar panels. A couple were on the end of errant shotgun blasts from 30 or so yards. The glass was cracked all over but it still output the normal voltage.

[Paladin2]

Breaking?

[Darksheare]

Solar panel farm just down the road from me.
The ten inches of snow we had in the one storm put it out of commission until the panels could be cleaned off.
Yeah, they’re supposed to have ice melt capability.
I have yet to see it actually work.
(Solar freaking roadways! Couldn’t keep itself clear of snow in the tech demo installation.)

[Sequoyah101]

You paid to install it. I guess you pay to repair and replace it.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I think there’s a former bartender gal from Brooklyn who has some tips for all y’all.

[changeitback440]

I bet the wind was blowing

[Red Badger]

Should this be in Breaking News????.....

😁

[PROCON]

Oh, come-on, we all know man-made climate change caused that hailstorm, we just need to double-down and put solar farms on 1,000,000 acres “to save the erf!”

[Jane Long]

:-)

Glass Breaking.

[MomwithHope]

Who’s got the Nelson HaHa pic?

[The Duke]

OOOOPS_PING!

[bray]

Well, there is that and dust storms/hurricanes that can destroy them overnight.

[bray]

You do realize insurance comes out of your pocket.

[Vendome]

Man, I feel good after watching that video 📹

[SaxxonWoods]

My neighbors are “renting” solar panels. No money up front, $130 a month in rent. First month’s electric bill was $0.00.

Unless their average electric bill was well over $130 a month I don’t see the point...