Baseball-sized hail took out a 5.2-megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday, as part of a giant supercell thunderhead that moved across eastern Wyoming and into Nebraska.
  • JaymesRS@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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?

      • Toekneegee@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s no good way to get all the sunlight off of them. Once a squirrel is exposed to sunlight, it will inevitably die

    • BitBaum@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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