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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (54 children)

Okay, but if this was a nuclear power plant we'd have a second Fukushima on our hands.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, the hot stuff is behind meters of concrete and lead plates. Hail isn't going to do shit. And with it's lack of active fault lines, Texas would be fine for Nuclear.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think even when damaged they still produce.

More modern vertical arrays might fair better in hurricane-prone areas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Heliostats seem to be getting popular on large solar farms. You could use them to stow the panels upright to avoid damage in these circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Saladbar sneeze guard stonks to the moon!

(Because a hail size sneeze guard would have stopped hail size hail is the joke, you humorless fucks.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

sucks to be the insurance in this case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Technology is fragile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Utility scale photovoltaics just seems like a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Utility scale coal and NG plants seem like a worse idea.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looked expensive. Looks like garbage now.

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