Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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Okay, but if this was a nuclear power plant we’d have a second Fukushima on our hands.

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Nuclear powerplants are so safe that they’ve only had a handful of (admittedly disastrous and high profile) failures, and have killed less people per watt hour generated than even wind and solar power. Nuclear power is the safest, cleanest, most efficient form of green energy we can get right now. Yes, it can be dangerous if not managed properly. But Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island were not freak accidents. Deliberate mistakes were made that were known at the time and should be used as warnings to keep the industry safe, not as sirens that lead is to swear off nuclear energy.

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Nuclear power plants are an affront to God. The only nuclear power plant we need is the Sun.

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This is officially the worst argument yet. Who cares about what some fake god thinks, we have to deal with our own very real issues around power generation and anthropogenic climate change.

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I feel like this is one of those things that definitely has to have happened before now; after all, grid-scale solar isn’t something we’ve just started doing in the last two or three years, we’ve been at it for at least 15 that I know of. And hail isn’t exactly a new phenomenon in TX. So I wonder why we’re hearing about it like it’s news. Is this fossil fuel funded bad press? Did they skimp on protection they shouldn’t have?

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Solar farms on rust scale are relatively new, though. So this might have happened countless times before, but not that concentrated on a single entity.

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Saladbar sneeze guard stonks to the moon!

(Because a hail size sneeze guard would have stopped hail size hail is the joke, you humorless fucks.)

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Take your medicine.

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What is “4000ac”?

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4000 acre?

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Americans inventing new freedom units instead of using squared meters…

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I’ll convert it to a metric unit for you so it’s easier to visualize: the solar farm is 2*10^27 square Angstroms.

Hope that helps!

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