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4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[โ€“] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is one of those things that definitely has to have happened before now; after all, grid-scale solar isn't something we've just started doing in the last two or three years, we've been at it for at least 15 that I know of. And hail isn't exactly a new phenomenon in TX. So I wonder why we're hearing about it like it's news. Is this fossil fuel funded bad press? Did they skimp on protection they shouldn't have?

[โ€“] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Solar farms on rust scale are relatively new, though. So this might have happened countless times before, but not that concentrated on a single entity.