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By Paul Homewood
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Just as well we don’t rely on renewables for all of our electricity then!
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Storm Darragh leaves UK’s Biggest solar farm in pieces
Who could have anticipated that the weather would destroy the idiotic infrastructure put in place to control the weather? Nature is peeing itself in fits of giggles.
It was a bad storm. The gas power station at Ballylumford, NI, was also put out of action:
The chimney is being fixed pronto, and then power generation resumes.
The destroyed solar panels – not happening.
New replacement ones will have to be made in China, then shipped halfway around the world and installed in the UK. (Oh, won’t some one think of all that CO2 🙁 )
The trashed ones will be in a landfill forever,
And as an aside, here’s the level of lunacy of some of the reactions in the comments to the article in your link –
“This is surely KARMA for having belched out the very CO2 that CAUSED these storms 😭
Let’s replace this broken methane plant with a lot more wind and solar and tidal energy generation ASAP.”
I have to ask – did you post this comment, Nick?
Pronto? It’s a big structure.
The whole station was disabled. How much production was lost from the solar farm?
Only closed to check safety issues.. There are several other chimneys.
Seems Nick knows absolutely ZERO about electrical connectivity. !
Does he really think that solar farm is safe or even possible to operate !
Bizarre !
Likely EVERY individual panel would require checking for potential damage and the need for replacement. ALL panels would need to pass inspection so they would know how many replacements to order.
Well no matter what happens, it’s predictable that at sundown EVERY DAY, 100% of EVERY solar farm’s production will be lost.
(Nick old mate, I really can’t comprehend how you can’t grasp this basic reality. You’re technically a really clever bloke, but when it comes to wind, solar and batteries, your comprehension of the realities of utility-scale requirements and systems goes missing completely. What’s Up With That?)
Admit it, you don’t much about how “solar farms” are constructed.
Must be a completely brain-washed moron to think that CO2 causes storms. !
I concur, Doctor. 🙂
Especially when storms are *objectively* NOT getting worse despite rising CO2 levels.
This is so stupid one SMR could provide more power than the whole island can use, would take up one tenth the area, wouldn’t have been destroyed by the storm and would be in service far far longer than any wind or solar farm storm or no storm.
Wouldn’t need backup either.
Porth Wen solar farm is ~190 acres
That was prime grazing land, now it’s contaminated by broken glass & chemicals.
We live ~ 12 miles away.
They are planning for another of 3,700 acres, The proposal is one of two separate applications to build vast solar farms on Anglesey, covering 3,700 acres of mostly farmland, around 2% of the island.
I think it should be a criminal act to use prime farmland for solar panels or wind turbines.
I saw a solar farm mentioned on WUWT recently at an old disused airfield… made more sense.
I think they should be built in the back yards of people who vote for politicians that support their construction.
I live 30 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. After “Superstorm” Sandy, they upped the wind loading design spec for new structures to 135mph from 105. This array was hit by 80mph winds. They need to reassess their PV structural requirements, obviously. These arrays will drastically increase in both cost and energy cost of production, obviously. When does the math on these things as far as net CO2 production EVER break even?
The only way to increase PV module hail resistance is to increase the thickness of the front cover glass, which will never happen.
When you include the NECESSARY backups, I’m sure the answer is NEVER.
That was just a 96 mph gust. What’ll happen when a hurricane clobbers the east coast of the United States?
Power goes out for months.
Or
Power goes out Four Months.
What level of stupidity is required to build a gigantic solar array above 50 degrees north latitude in an area subject to high winds? How can something like this happen?
Who knew weather could be destructive???