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Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing Into Panels At 150 MPH Destroys Scottsbluff Solar Farm (cowboystatedaily.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m terrified of what crews will have to go through to mitigate and clean up what will clearly become a massive sunlight leak after this. Do we know how this will impact local groundwater?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Let me know where I can sign up to help clean sunlight off of squirrels

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To be fair solar cells are not made of sunshine (ha) and daysies. Glass plastic and aluminum should not be left rotting. But of course you are right there will be next to no impact beside some garbage on some field