Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing Into Panels At 150 MPH Destroys Scottsbluff Solar Farm

[excalibur]

Reason #17 why solar is unreliable.

And people still believe you can run a grid off solar and wind. You can't.

Baseball-sized hail took out a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday.

The hail shattered most of the panels on the 5.2-megawatt solar project, sparing an odd panel like missing teeth in a white smile.

Wyoming has only one commercial-scale solar farm, but a second project is under construction south of Cheyenne.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency ranks this area in its the highest category for hail risk on the national index.

Don Day, Cowboy State Daily meteorologist, said the hail would have reached terminal velocity during its descent, which is the maximum speed an object will reach when falling. The hail would have likely struck the panels going 100 to 150 mph. ​

Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing Into Panels At 150 MPH Destroys Scottsbluff Solar Farm

Baseball-sized hail took out a 5.2-megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday, as part of a giant supercell thunderhead that moved across eastern Wyoming and into Nebraska.

cowboystatedaily.com

 

[1srelluc]

That will do it.

I bet they just abandon it.

 

[Votto]

That confirms it, God hates solar power.

 

[DudleySmith]

No problem; Biden will give them a big grant to replace them all with. 80% will go for big salaries to local 'activists', and the rest to illegal alien labor.

 

[Captain Caveman]

That will do it.

I bet they just abandon it.

Don't forget, the green brigade say solar energy is free, so they're get replaced to no cost to anyone......what so.......ever (apparently, allegedly)

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

That will do it.

I bet they just abandon it.

Insurance will pay and then we will pay via higher premiums.

Personally I have no problem with wind & solar. Just don't mandate it.

I have 40 volt lawn equipment and I love it. But I MADE THE CHOICE to buy it based on my needs when my gas powered rider died.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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YIKES!

Since I moved to SD we've had some small hail. One night we had what I figured was at least golf ball sized hail, judging from the noise it was making on my roof. When it ceased, I took a look out onto my deck and saw hailstones that were about fingernail sized! Less than a half inch in diameter. I can't even imagine what baseball sized hail would sound like, let alone the damage to the roof!

Glad I have good insurance.

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[whitehall]

I bet nobody on the electrical grid noticed.

 

[22lcidw]

Unless there are massive leaps in technology, we are so screwed.