Tornado Destroys Indiana Solar Farm, Fuels Energy Debate

I've seen a couple destroyed by hail storms.

I hate to see it happen.

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Imagine making the energy grids of advanced first world economies dependent on this inefficient, intermittent and fragile technology

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Just like electric vehicles, it's an efficient and effective alternative means to work in parallel with the status quo. But also just like electric vehicles, it's nowhere near ready to replace the status quo.

Maybe we see it in our lifetimes and that would be great, though it would require some adjustment and some sacrifices by the general population. But we aren't even close to being "there" yet.

If it wasn’t for a dumb US populace in the 1970s seeing a dumb Jane Fonda film, we'd already be pumping out millions of KW hours of clean nuclear energy.

A local manufacturer has about 175 acres under roof. When they added solar, rather than cover the roof or massive parking areas they cut down 10 acres of trees.

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rather than cover the roof or massive parking areas they cut down 10 acres of trees

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You mean the cleanest and most efficient carbon capture mechanism in existence?

People are so fricking stupid.

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If you want to do this at your house, thats fine, but taking hundreds of acres and putting up solar panels is stupid and inefficient.

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You have to do it in a place that has abundant sunlight. Without tornadoes, hurricanes and sandstorms.

The funny thing is that it only works really for householders in a limited way.

Puerto Rico had some big solar and wind farms gifted to them back in Obama's regime. One hurricane took it all away.

If only we could have foreseen this.

I love solar. I use it in my RV, on my boat, even some on my house. I LOVE free electricity.

BUT....I also have diesel generator backups.

They were called out during the planning phase and ignored any alternate plan. I have little doubt those panels will be destroyed at some point by the frequent storms this time of year.