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re: Massive solar panel farm in Indiana destroyed by storms.

Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:33 am to
Posted by Victor R Franko
Member since Dec 2021
3392 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:33 am to
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Finite supply.

Won’t run out for a century, but they will run out.

Not hacking on you, but how do you know this to be true? Has this been proven true? Do we know that the earth is not creating new but as yet undiscovered oil fields? Just curios as I've heard this for over 50 or 60 years myself.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103858 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:39 am to
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But people think Chernobyl is going to happen every 5 seconds because they are stupid.


“Chernobyl” is Russian for “Hey, hold my vodka!”
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103858 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:40 am to
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Do we know that the earth is not creating new but as yet undiscovered oil fields? Just curios as I've heard this for over 50 or 60 years myself.


Not sure if new ones are being created but extraction tech tends to make huge leaps over time. That ends up making new reserves recoverable that weren’t economically feasible before that point.
Posted by USAFTiger42
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2016
3840 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:47 am to
Keesler AFB has them as cover for the parking spaces for the BX and commissary. If they're gonna use open space...do that. Don't put it on farmland.
Posted by Good Times
Hill top in Tn
Member since Nov 2007
24847 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:47 am to
Wealth redistribution plan to pay off their donors. Wrap it in global crisis boogie man. Pass legislation to kill oil, coal, and nuclear. PROFIT and CONTROL.
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8677 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:53 am to
Insurance coverage must be exorbitant
Posted by llfshoals
Member since Nov 2010
20905 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 11:53 am to
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Not hacking on you, but how do you know this to be true?
Do I know the date (within 100 years) it will definitely run out? No. Neither does anyone else. The question you have to ask yourself is “what is petroleum?” How long does it take to form?

Organic decay (oversimplification but adequate for this conversation) and millions of years of pressure and decomposition.

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Do we know that the earth is not creating new but as yet undiscovered oil fields?
Sure it is, but given the time frame to create vs use that’s not an option.

People have been looking HARD for additional reserves. Some significant deposits have been found, but there is again a restriction on where and how we search.

Landman is much discussed concerning fossil fuels and reality. Yes it’s a TV show, but the concerns are real. Drilling in the ocean is fraught with peril. A great line from it is “even if everything goes perfectly you’re still 7 MILES under the surface of the ocean”. I don’t think people realize really the magnitude of that problem.

Assuming you use 50 foot sections of pipe (for easy math) that’s 740 sections of pipe that must be perfect. The welds have to be perfect, every single piece 7 miles down must be perfect. And they all must remain perfect….for years.

Posted by TFH
Member since Apr 2016
4191 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 12:00 pm to
This is one of my main reasons I’m so against solar. “Panels have a 20+ year lifespan” except people don’t seem to realize that much of the area they’re used will be hit with, at minimum, a massive hail storm.
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