Close up of the destruction from ABC 13 Houston, still from video. Full video link in caption.
Locals are very worried about water contamination.
Experts said that most of the time, large solar farm panels are made of compound cadmium telluride.
This is something Kaminski is worried about because he uses well water.
“That’s what we take a shower with, we drink with,” Kaminski explained. “It could be in our water now.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fort-bend-co-neighbors-want-to-know-whether-solar-panel-farms-hailstorm-damage-leaked-chemicals/ar-BB1knNRW
H/T Yooper, Frazier, karlomonte
So is this solar field now an EPA Superfund site? What a waste of money. How in the world did solar make it into the grid with its inherent unreliability? Makes work tougher on Balancing Authorities and Generators who have to respond to the volatility of wind and solar production.
No it isnt CdTE , if used, isnt toxic. the same as NaCl isnt toxic unlike its separate elements sodium and chlorine
NaCl isn’t toxic!? Perhaps you would like to “fertilize” your property with a few truckloads from the desalinization plant! As for myself; me and my house will continue to rely on the ancient fertilizers, like guano and dung, if there are any birds and bats left from the Mad Max Bird Shredders! Climate alarmists are such ignorant putzes!
The salt analogy is a bad one: NaCl is ionic bonding while CdTe is a covalent compound in crystalline form.
Do you add it to your food !
Yes you do . Case closed
Any way depending on the area salt is already there in some concentration
LOL
Dung ?. That figures ROFL
Read the story of thrvdeath of John Sinclair Mastrr of Caithness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair,_Master_of_Caithness
I’ve read that drinking too much water from the Dead Sea can be fatal, because of how salty it is.
Salt isn’t toxic the same way that water isn’t toxic, or oxygen. Too much can easily be toxic (as you note re: Dead Sea) Toxicity is in the dose.
The weather damaged weather dependent “energy” sources?
Who’d of such such a thing was possible!
It looked so great on paper!
Wind turbines must also be vulnerable to large hail stones. If the blades are dented then destructive vibrations are possible due to the unbalanced disturbed airflow?
Possible Superfund site😳
Stupid is as stupid does ?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/relentless-revolt-polish-farmers-stage-600-protests-day/
>>That’s what we take a shower with
Quora (I know NOT a credible source) says CdTe cells can leach up to 23g per installed kW..
NIH says the lethal dose for Cd is 5g.
So it seems to me that showering should not be a problem at all!
>> we drink with
Might be a problem! For the sake of a discussion let´s assume that the can remove 99% of the stuff before it leaches and most of it will spread and not contaminate the well.
I think Kaminski will be safe.
I also think that this stuff is dangerous enough that it needs to be cleaned up thoroughly and or course there is always that weird behavior of food chains like the Cesium enrichment in mushrooms after Chernobyl..
CdTe isnt the same as elemental cadmium. As a compound its non toxic
hmm the CdTe wiki page singe the smae song as you, this test
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607867/
has a different tune
“””On the other hand, over the course of 30 days, 73% of the Cd and 21% of the Te were released to the synthetic leachate of a continuous-flow column simulating the acidic landfill phase. The dissolved Cd concentration was 3.24-fold higher than the TCLP limit (1 mg L-1), and 650-fold higher than the maximum contaminant level established by the US-EPA for this metal in drinking water (0.005 mg L-1).”””
All is harmless until it is not!?
landfills are toxic for a thousand reasons.
Household batteries shouldnt be disposed of in rubbish for landfill either . I bet you like me still do.
So will you resolve to never use household batteries because of ‘toxicity problem’
As others have assumed , Im not in favour of solar replacing reliable energy generation. Its even worse than wind, except for some home owners
Maybe I just do not understand what your point is, but your answer “landfills are toxic for a thousand reasons.” to that cited article showing a Cd leaching form CdTe solar panels “650-fold” over an US-EPA limit in an experiment seems utterly meaningless!
I can make irrelevant statements too..
“Most days the sun rises in the East!”
or “Dinosaurs roamed the earth a long time ago!”
and there is some truth in “Watch the road, man!”
I did some research. Whether or not the N doped CdTe layer is toxic, the p doped CdS layer is. Water soluble Carcinogen with renal toxicity, and a cause of osteoporosis. The CdS lies on top of CdTe in the First Solar panels. So closer to the shattered glass cover. The locals health concerns are legitimate.
The high-bandgap CdS layer is extremely thin compared to the CdTe, but there are many, many square meters.
“the p doped CdS layer is. Water soluble”
Actually CdS is not water soluble, not even in acid. It is the main ore of Cd, so has not dissolved in millions of years. It is used as a pigment, cadmium yellow, even in exterior paints. Its insolubility, even in acid solution, is used in the wet way analysis of cations:
Impossible, what with all this global warming going on it’s too warm to hail, it must have been something else. Wait for factual reports from the government agencies, then we’ll know.
Cadmium telluride is a pollutant only when it comes from all other sources except solar it appears/ sarc
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Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a physics professor at Rice University involved in solar panel production, told the outlet.
“Even if I expose it, it has to get into the groundwater, which means water has to dissolve the cadmium telluride,” he added. “Cadmium telluride does not dissolve in water.”
>> “Cadmium telluride does not dissolve in water.”
unless of course the pH is different.. uh McIntyre always said “watch the pea under the thimble”.. this seems to be such a moment.. how about environments not having “water” by Ramesh definition…
But if it is the water.. and you drink the water.. what do your stomach acids do to it !
Rud, above says the CdS layer is water soluble and toxic.
Solar Panel insurance rates will be going up.
All insurance rates are going up.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
only thing better than seeing that? would be same area covered in a layer of paint
A public relations team rushed to dismiss the thousands of solar panels damaged by hail as far less of a problem than an earthquake hitting a nuclear plant.
I’m not making this up — it was stated at a leftist website!
Solar Panel Design Specifications that could benefit an electric grid, and would be specified by an electric utility in a sane world:
Reliable maximum power output from 7am to 10am on weekdays
and
from 4pm to 7pm on weekdays
to match maximum electricity consumption hours, currently NOT reflected in the duck curve (currently when solar generation is highest and most efficient during the day, there is insufficient energy consumption to match solar production.)
Long lifespan of 40 to 50 years
(currently 15 to 20 years)
Efficiency does not deteriorate more than 10% over the solar panel lifespan (currently about 1% a year)
Snow melting option for colder climates
Hail resistant materials
Excess energy can be sold at a profit.
Materials can be recycled after being scrapped, or at least disposed of safely without causing pollution
When one assembles logical engineering design specifications for solar panels, that could benefit an electric grid, it’s obvious the current solar panels were a waste of money and should never have been part of an electric grid.
But the good news, I suppose, is windmills are worse than solar panels.
How long until someone unironically uses the broken window fallacy to declare that the destruction of this infrastructure is good for the economy?
Just so you know, the CdTe is a chemical vapor deposition between panel layers with tiny amounts composing that semiconductor layer. It would take more than surface shatter to expose that bonded layer. The picture above is from a silicon panel and you can tell because of the lines on it. A CdTe panel is completely monotone. Also, the CdTe panels are completely covered by a recycling program (because it’s focused on utility scale projects) with 90 percent plus recovery of materials, that is usually lacking on most silicon panels.
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This post amounts to using the ignorant on this topic as demonstrated in many of the comments above.