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Solar farm wrecked by giant hail!
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SiliconWizard:
That's just a quantum effect!
.RC.:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 04, 2023, 02:01:59 am ---That's just a quantum effect!

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Schrodinger's cat was alive on those panel. :)

Siwastaja:
Well, gazillion of PV panels are installed everywhere and such problems are rare. Massive hailstorms also destroy roofs and cars ( https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-lm&q=hailstorm&tbm=isch&sa=X ), yet SiliconWizard is not demanding stronger cars or thicker windshields to be made. At some point it's just diminishing return and it makes more sense to sell lower cost cars/roofs/PV panels which are destroyed in 0.01% cases and just replaced (either by pocketing the savings and paying for it yourself, or paying for insurances upfront), because doing otherwise would incur higher total cost.
DarkMode:
RIP  |O
nctnico:

--- Quote from: tom66 on July 03, 2023, 10:15:35 pm ---Random events like this is what you have insurance or pooled costs for, at the end of the day a tornado could have come right through and ripped all the panels off. I am sure other electricity infrastructure was damaged as well, and this does not inherently make solar panels useless.

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Agreed. It could be these panels are weaker compared to what is usual or that the hail was excessively heavy (or both). Good quality solar panels can take quite a beating:

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