Oops, Giant Hail Destroys Large Portions
of 3,000-Acre Texas Solar Farm, Residents
Fear Chemical Leak
Red State,
by
Bob Hoge
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
3/28/2024 12:16:52 AM
A 3,000-acre solar farm 40 miles from Houston, Texas, was massively damaged on March 15 when huge chunks of hail fell from the sky and shattered hundreds of panels, leaving the facility running at “reduced capacity.” From the look of the pictures, it would seem that it’s operating at heavily reduced capacity. Not only does the storm highlight the fragility of so-called green energy facilities, but area residents are worried about toxic chemical leaks. Needville resident Nick Kaminski spoke with a local television affiliate:
My concern is the hail damage that came through and busted these panels – we now have some highly toxic chemicals
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 3/28/2024 12:31:07 AM (No. 1687281)
I hope they won't feel the need to rebuild these. They're so UGLY.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2024 12:31:52 AM (No. 1687282)
Excellent news. Hopefully this will prevent some other fool from making this sort of hellishly stupid move.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Calico Al 3/28/2024 1:07:26 AM (No. 1687286)
No word about homeowners personal panels.
21 people like this.
Would like to know more about the toxic chemicals contained in these panels. First I've heard of such a thing. Thought they were "green."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/28/2024 3:00:48 AM (No. 1687306)
Let me guess. The taxpayers will be liable to fix the solar farm.
18 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 3/28/2024 4:17:13 AM (No. 1687327)
Guess all those solar panels will end up in the local landfill. Oh, wait, they have all sorts of toxic materials. Send them back to China?
28 people like this.
In Middle Georgia, the Solar Farms are referred to as "Rural Blight"...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 3/28/2024 6:19:13 AM (No. 1687382)
It's interesting that solar and wind are used to stop global warming. No CO2. And it's the hail and freezes that knock out these two energy sources. Waste of money completely.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/28/2024 6:22:57 AM (No. 1687383)
The people who created, financed and built the solar farm didn't take into consideration Hail? Are they that stupid? Yep, that stupid. BTW - CIT Group, a subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares owns the Damon Texas solar farm.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
privateer 3/28/2024 6:56:38 AM (No. 1687389)
How many oil rigs or pipelines were destroyed by hail?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/28/2024 7:01:17 AM (No. 1687391)
To quote an old advertisement:
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature"
This is not the first time storms have damaged these panels which are vulnerable to damage by hail and are not as efficient at producing electricity as natural gas powered sources of electricity.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/28/2024 7:12:42 AM (No. 1687398)
Why. it's like Mother Nature herself is mocking the efforts of the climate nuts. This exposes the fragile nature of the "solutions" that are being provided.
And, as more and more solar installations are made and we are more and more DEPENDANT on them, such occurrences will become more frequent and more catastrophic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NamVet70 3/28/2024 7:16:50 AM (No. 1687399)
I think any chemical scare about breaking solar panels is as much a falsehood as the climate change scare that put them there. They might find a use for these things as concrete filler after they break them up fine enough.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/28/2024 7:48:21 AM (No. 1687407)
"RED" Alert! They're leaking Chinesium! Air drop them on Cuba!
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I own several sections (square mile) of land in Grapevine, near Dallas. Currently grow sorghum. City is slowly approaching.
There’s high tension power lines that run along the edge of the property and a substation.
I constantly get approached by BP or other solar companies to “option” my land to put in these farms.
There are so many tricks in these contracts my lawyer got angry. He’s a Gulf War Army pilot and has the view that anyone who writes contracts with tricks in them is a crook and will eventually cheat you.
I’ve listened and send them on their way.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franq 3/28/2024 8:16:05 AM (No. 1687422)
Seems like Divine judgement to me.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/28/2024 8:40:39 AM (No. 1687441)
It's fortunate for them that they were using clean energy. Imagine if the hail fell on a bunch of trees and plants and released all of their CO2 into the atmosphere.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/28/2024 9:03:10 AM (No. 1687463)
I truly hope those heavily invested in green and shoving it down our collective throat lose their shirts. They deserve it. They are looters, however. With their insider knowledge, they will know when to bail and cash in their profits leaving others holding the bag when the bottom falls out.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/28/2024 9:21:07 AM (No. 1687472)
Last year in the Midwest another solar power facility was almost totally destroyed by a hail storm, leading to a big cleanup of broken solar panels. Wind and solar were bad ideas to begin with, and I'd like to see the windmills and the solar farms go away. They're a waste of resources and terrible use of land. Let's stick with what works and amputate this Green monstrosity and throw it away. While we're at it, let's get rid of electric transportation, too. Pure waste designed to immobilize us.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hisself 3/28/2024 9:52:23 AM (No. 1687498)
So, if the earth is warming, howsa come these little chunks of ice fell upon the panels? Could be that as the earth warms (which is BS), the sky cools?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 3/28/2024 10:16:48 AM (No. 1687528)
Voodoo energy can never meet the needs of the baseload.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/28/2024 10:17:15 AM (No. 1687530)
I live in a fairly rural county in Virginia and you'll see the Farmland Lost is lost forever bumper stickers on cars but the Left only seems to care about lost farmland when you build single family homes on the land but not massive solar or wind turbine farms.
Found this article on citizensfrepress:https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/27/texas-small-nuclear-reactors-power/
Lefties cannot stand nuclear power and yet, we have a nuclear Navy - those nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines are not powered by huge nuclear power plants so small nuclear plants are certainly doable.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/28/2024 10:31:00 AM (No. 1687546)
3,000 acres filled with solar panels, making the acreage useless for anything else.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/28/2024 10:52:34 AM (No. 1687570)
The companies can just add the cost of repairs to the monthly bills as cost of doing business.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2024 11:03:02 AM (No. 1687581)
I'm thinking that a couple of hours with a hammer would help rid your area of this "rural blight". Just sayin'.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
joew9 3/28/2024 11:07:08 AM (No. 1687588)
3000 acres of solar panels represents about 0.1 percent of the total power that needs to be generated for the state. Texas needs about 4000 to 8000 SQUARE MILES of solar facilities to meet their power needs. So 3000 acres is insignificant. It takes 640 acres for one sq mile. Talking about solar facilities in terms of acres is misleading because most people will think that's a lot. It's not. The headline should reference the "4.5 square mile facility." And should mention how small a portion of the Texas total power generation it is. Most people have no idea that most states will require 10% of the state to be covered in solar panel facilities with nothing growing on that ground. And the environmentalists(and everyone else) would have a cow if they saw 10% of the land stripped of vegetation and covered in solar panels. And by the way. Wind energy land use is worse than solar.
On the other hand - about 10 square miles - all total - of coal fired power generation is all it takes for the whole state.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/28/2024 12:10:21 PM (No. 1687656)
Same companies of this partnership (Japan energy, another company based in Spain, as well as a couple of US partners) have 3 other similar sized installations. Ones in Rufugio county, Wharton County, and one near high point Illinois.They claim each can power 65,500 homes. A massive reflected solar/mirror installation in Nevada. They also own/operate several massive wind farms.
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