Green Energy Beaten Black And Blue: Video Shows Massive Hail Damage To Texas Solar Farm

March 29, 2024, 10:12 PM

Skins2881

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
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Originally posted by tatortodd:
The article was good, but the Tweet is pretty misleading. That wasn't merely a round of bad weather. They had 2-3/4" diameter hail in that storm. It went through car windshields, blew out windows in buildings, ruined roofs, etc. Even though Texas gets a lot of violent thunderstorms that sized hail is pretty rare, and I've never had a replace a roof from hail in all of the years I've lived in Houston.

Heck, that sized hail is large enough to kill cattle so PETA could make a similar Tweet about the beef industry, pork industry, poultry industry, etc (i.e. Is it really wise to make ourselves dependent on food that can be killed by a bout of bad weather?).

I live in a different direction from downtown Houston, but where I live is a similar distance from downtown. The NWS had a large diameter hail warning out for all of Houston, and believe me I breathed a sigh of relief baseball sized hail didn't hit my house. I don't have solar panels, but roughly 10% of my neighbors have solar panels.

True but it’s inevitable and not financially viable long term. The whole point is that wind and solar are not the salvation to energy as they portray them to be. The fact is that nuclear is our best option long term financially and practically and billions have been wasted on wind and solar.

I'm all for an all of the above strategy. Use everything we got, develop it all. Maybe wind and solar win out, but that's not where I'd place my money.

Nuclear is not currently the long term answer, but molten salt reactors are safe with long service lives plus SMRs are going to be coming online. They could bridge the next 50 years easily. By then we might have Fusion or better other green options to choose from.

The idea of abandoning nuclear is extremely shortsighted, especially since it's being driven by the same wack jobs that want green energy. It's sitting right there in front of your face. Open your damn eyes.

March 30, 2024, 10:29 PM

Prefontaine

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Yikes. Those panels are typically impact tested, but baseball-sized may exceed those specs by a bit.

Or they went cheap on the panels.

Cheap panels. Mine have been on the house for a full decade now. Several hail storms over the years, no damage to the panels themselves. Even had to replace the roof after one hail storm but it was like a 1/2 job for my roofer because the panels cover half the roof and they had zero damage. So the roof job cost 1/2 what it should. They must be using some real cheap shit now or something.

My rural land, when I can finally move to it, will have panels and a small windmill. Definitely like making my own power. Will drill a well also.