Hurricane Havoc: Twisters Wipeout Thousands of Solar Panels Across US
Leave intellectual pygmies in charge, and weather-dependent wind and solar is what you get. However, not only does their output depend entirely on the weather and/or where the Sun sits in the sky, wind and solar’s capacity to (occasionally) generate power can be eradicated in a matter of minutes.
A few hailstones from the heavens make short work of solar panels. Typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes readily wipe out both solar panels and wind turbines, leaving nothing but expensive wreckage in their path.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/10/21/hurricane-havoc-twisters-wipeout-thousands-of-solar-panels-across-us/In the latter case, twisters will strip the 20 tonne blades from a turbine as if plucking the leaves from a flower and/or flatten the whole shebang in seconds (see the video above).
Proving, once again, how utterly ridiculous solar power is, the twisters that followed in the wake of Hurricane Milton have pounded large-scale solar plants across Florida, including this one.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/10/21/hurricane-havoc-twisters-wipeout-thousands-of-solar-panels-across-us/
