It never occurred to me that something could damage large sheets of glass sitting exposed in a field. This must be a one it 30 million chance.
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.
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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.
God just sent the dirt worshipers a message.
Golf ball-sized hail in West Texas is more akin to sleet.
It never occurred to me that something could damage large sheets of glass sitting exposed in a field. This must be a one it 30 million chance.
The subsidies paid to setup the solar farm are long gone. In the long run, the rate payers of TX are probably better off with these subsidized KWH off the grid.
Curious to know if an insurance company was stupid enough to insure the farm against hail. After the last big hail storm in the DFW area, all car dealers put in these fabric (kevlar?) covers over their lots, because the insurers wouldn’t cover otherwise.
A single hail storm tore up half the roofs in my neighborhood, knocked down a crapload of trees, and made a lot of flooding that I’m sure did damage somewhere. Storms can get ugly, especially in the desert, we get mean nasty storms.
According to my somewhat suspect calculations, that’s 5 square miles.
Huh!
Awwww-wwww!
See! See! I was talkin’ about this exact thing maybe 10 years ago. That and tornado’s. Any body got a line on free wind mill blades, I got a great idea for my garden out back.
Hope there are more of them.
Mercury clean up at 3,300-acre Fighting Jays Solar Farm bring lots of equipment and state inspectors.