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To: RomanSoldier19

wondering how those solar panels are doing, given the temps and snow in many States. ditto the wind turbines?

charging your EV?

funny how stories such as the following barely get noticed by the FakeNewsMSM:

1 Sept 2022: CNBC: Amazon took all U.S. solar rooftops offline last year after flurry of fires, electrical explosions
by Annie Palmer & Lara Kolodny
Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six different times...
On the afternoon of April 14, 2020, dozens of firefighters arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Fresno, California, as thick plumes of smoke poured from the roof of the 880,000-square-foot warehouse.

Some 220 solar panels and other equipment at the facility, known as FAT1, were damaged by the three-alarm fire, which was caused by “an undetermined electrical event within the solar system mounted on top of the roof,” Leland Wilding, Fresno’s fire investigator, wrote in an incident report.

A little over a year later, about 60 firefighters were called to an even larger Amazon facility in Perryville, Maryland, to put out a two-alarm blaze, local news outlets reported...

In the intervening months, at least four other Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions due to failures with their solar energy-generating systems, according to internal company documents viewed by CNBC.

The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, affecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion...

In 2019, founder Jeff Bezos launched the Climate Pledge, promising the largest online retailer would zero out emissions by 2040, embrace renewable energy and move away from gas-guzzling delivery vans...

Corporate America is under pressure from regulators and a growing subset of investors to set and report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/01/amazon-took-solar-rooftops-offline-last-year-after-fires-explosions.html


3 posted on 12/24/2022 4:11:05 PM PST by MAGAthon
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9 posted on 12/24/2022 4:23:44 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: MAGAthon
"charging your EV? funny how stories such as the following barely get noticed by the FakeNewsMSM:"


11 posted on 12/24/2022 4:32:02 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: MAGAthon

Were batteries involved?


32 posted on 12/24/2022 7:00:10 PM PST by Paladin2
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