How blue California and red Texas became green powerhouses | Despite wildly different approaches, both states are seeing massive growth in solar and wind energy.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because solar is cheap AF

  No moving parts or water usage is huge.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Until a hail storm takes out thousands of acres of panels, or tornadoes.

    newsweek.com/thousands-solar-panels-texas-destroy…

    Ironically, even oil companies use wind or solar to pump oil.

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    • int_not_found@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The article talks about thousands of destroyed panels across thousands of acres of production. Thousands of panels are somewhere in single digit to low double digit MW production capacity range. With a claimed production capacity of 350 megawatts this is a single digit percentage reduction in production, after a storm with baseball sized hail.

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    • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How common is baseball-sized hail in Texas??

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