Yay renewables. ......failure

[Chilli]

Major solar farm up in flames.

Massive solar farm on fire during heatwave

A fire erupted at Wellington North solar farm during a heatwave on Saturday, and locals claimed a faulty panel sparked a grassfire that swept through the site.

www.noticer.news

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Sounds like it was installed cheaply. It should have had weed barriers buried with 4” of rock. Here we have had HUGE solar fields destroyed by hail - go figure?! Paid for with tax subsidies and insurance. Either way we all paid the cost. Probably an environmental disaster now.

 

[ToddsPoint]

A new solar farm just built in the next county. The weeds are already blocking the lower edge of the panels. They plan on having goats run loose to eat the weeds. The place is huge. They would need 100s of goats. I doubt this place will last 20 yrs.

 

[beepbleep]

The big lie. Environmentalists huh?

Iowa Is Cleaning Up Its Massive Pile of Wind Turbine Blades. Why Can’t Texas?

Months after the company responsible missed a key deadline, the state environmental agency has yet to take further action to help Sweetwater officials get rid of two industrial dumps.

www.texasmonthly.com

 

[beepbleep]

A new solar farm just built in the next county. The weeds are already blocking the lower edge of the panels. They plan on having goats run loose to eat the weeds. The place is huge. They would need 100s of goats. I doubt this place will last 20 yrs.

The goats will be up on top of them destroying them in no time. Eating the wiring, breaking the panels, ...

 

[DizzyDigger]

California is in the process of shutting down a huge, $2.2 Billion dollar (yes,
taxpayer money) solar farm in Ivanpah.

Why the US's biggest solar megaproject is shutting down after a decade

Discover why the $2.2B Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, once a global symbol of clean energy innovation, is shutting down after just 10 years,

interestingengineering.com

 

[djackson7348]

The good ol' New Green Money grab fallout has begun.

 

[WoodsDigger]

Major solar farm up in flames.
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Massive solar farm on fire during heatwave

A fire erupted at Wellington North solar farm during a heatwave on Saturday, and locals claimed a faulty panel sparked a grassfire that swept through the site.

www.noticer.news

Just like the one that burned in my town. That's a mess short term and long term.

 

[djackson7348]

Sure, these wonderful green projects were a scam against taxpayers and rate payers along with being an environmental nightmare but look at the plus side. These projects allowed a lot of politicians to retire as millionaires.

 

[Jeff H]

Yes, the green energy scam is exactly why we need more Deep Water Horizons.

 

[WoodsDigger]

A new solar farm just built in the next county. The weeds are already blocking the lower edge of the panels. They plan on having goats run loose to eat the weeds. The place is huge. They would need 100s of goats. I doubt this place will last 20 yrs.

Our fire was started in the storage batteries. Some solar farms use them some dont. The fire depts flooded the batteries for days until it was under control. Shallow soil, the water was coming out a crack in the rock 500 yards away . They tried beef cows nit sure why that didn't work. Told my wife pointing to the fleet of zero turns .." look honey their mowing the electric plant with gas mowers" .