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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?
Let me know where I can sign up to help clean sunlight off of squirrels
There's no good way to get all the sunlight off of them. Once a squirrel is exposed to sunlight, it will inevitably die
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
Glass plastic and aluminum should not be left rotting
I get plastic, why not glass or aluminum?
Glass is sharp and can hurt wildlife and hoomans. Aluminum is (in big doses) bad for the brain and should not be added to the food chain on a whim
Seriously that shit is basically glass, got gonna be fun to clean up
Typically they are tempered glass like a car windshield, so the outer layer may shatter with severe enough hail, but it should all stay together.
Seems like a bit of an oversight to not spec the panels to be extremely hail proof when you’re in the Midwest supercell central.
A cost study analysis probably showed that baseball sized hail didn't happen regularly enough to warrant the extra cost compared to changing out some broken panels every X number of years.
Cost studies aren't always correct.