Posted on 03/28/2024 11:13:03 AM PDT by Sam77
Authoritarian climate crusaders most likely regard themselves as too enlightened, important and virtuous to heed cautionary tales about green energy. For everyone else, however, those tales remind us why we did not trust the crusaders in the first place.
According to ABC13 in Houston, a violent hailstorm on March 16 caused significant damage to the 3,300-acre Fighting Jays Solar Farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, prompting fears of possible leaking chemicals.
Local resident Nick Kaminski described the golf ball-sized hail, accompanied by heavy wind and rain.
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God has a sense of humor
However, they did lose a lot of power generation and clean-up will be a bitch.
This topic came up with my brother (N Ala). Some guy showed up in the rural area about 6 weeks ago...trying to find someone with 1,000 acres and willing to let this ‘green’ company put a solar farm up. Lease deal....probably would have paid high sum of money.
Various folks approached....said ‘no’...over this precise issue of toxic stuff if hail storms come.
Some kind of gov’t grant is attached to the company doing this.
I thought TX would have watermelon-sized hail, with everything being bigger there.
Imagine being a new car dealer with 200 new cars sitting out on the lot when a storm rolls through. The inventory is all financed and, presumably, insured.
Crops suffer mightily from hail damage. The fraud occurs because invariably the evidence melts before the adjuster arrives..
We just need a power generator that utilizes hail stones.
“”””” Lease deal....probably would have paid high sum of money”””””
I wonder what the ‘return to natural state’ situation becomes when the company takes all they can get from the solar operation and then moves on, or declares bankruptcy?
They should be putting them on brownfield sites. They can’t be used for many uses without a lot of mitigation now.
That's racist.
Actually, even silicon based solar cells are considered hazardous waste. Not really that good for you, just less bad!
The achilles heel of solar farms will how easily they can be damaged. A crop duster plane loaded with marbles could disable a farm just like the hail did. Also a well aimed RPG could disable a wind mill blade. These vulnerabilities have to be considered before we blindly narch down the road of green energy.
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I once saw hail so big that it wiped out a herd of 6 foot jackalopes.
Wow! A bunch of capitalists got together to buy the land and build this thing and offer the output to the public? Damn…
Tell the greenies that “man-made climate change” destroyed the panels, let them stew on that for awhile.
Circa 94 a huge hail storm went through Fort Worth. My car was destroyed. 1 billion in damage. The hail was size of grapefruit. I was parked in a lot full of cars at TCU. Responders triaged out those most seriously injured if you were out in open. Had to go to oky city to find an underaged new car.
Obviously you’ve never seen a Texas golf ball.
God just sent the dirt worshipers a message.
Golf ball-sized hail in West Texas is more akin to sleet.
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