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4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

Placing hardware cloth or similar over the panels with a couple inches of stand-off should prevent most any damage from even lege hail. It will probably reduce sunlight by a few percent across the entire field, but considering the storms Texas gets it would likely be worth it in the long run instead of having most of an entire farm wrecked.

But then Texas isn’t big on protecting their power sources from environmental impacts, are they.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Nah, how else will Republicans cry that solar energy is bad, and that we need coal and oil?

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