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But how does solar work when it rains?
- Thread starter StuAzole
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Here is the number 1 reason they didn’t lose power (from the article)…
”Power and internet lines are buried to avoid wind damage.”
”Power and internet lines are buried to avoid wind damage.”
I hear this is the only place with underground power lines. In all of south and west Florida.
Uh no, after the hurricane the chances of it being sunny in the Sunshine State are pretty good.
It's just amazing that he's an expert in natural gas wells because he's seen a few sticking out of the ground
Yea right dummy. The thing with these wells is that they put them in the ground and they produce for decades. There are wells like this all over Marcellus Shale country bringing clean natural gas to the entire Eastern Seaboard. Once the drilling process is complete and the well is producing you're left with a wellhead sticking out of a concrete pad and that's about it.
This picture is what the newest well site on my parents property looked like at the end of the drilling process about four years ago with still some equipment on site. On my last visit this area was completely overgrown with tall grass. If you google map Marcellus Shale country you'll see sites like this one all over the place in various stages due to the recent drilling boom. Over the next decade you will see them all but vanish into the landscape as they continue to produce gas for decades to come.
This shot of a well not on my parent's property is similar to what remains on the pad site in my picture above. That is a completed gas well. It connects to an underground network of pipelines.
By the way, this is what a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia looks like. The bear is sitting on it.
This is the view of the pipeline looking up the hillside in during deer season. Makes for easy deer hunting especially when you plant strategic food plots along said pipeline.
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Did you read @WaialuaNate ’s post above? No comment on that?
Don’t pay attention to either one of us. He does it for a living. I’ve been doing it part time for 20+ years and full time for nine years.
You have solar panels on your boat and car. The last time you had to depend on solar power during a tropical weather event was never.
....and your solar panels will be soaking up that sun while scattered around someone else's property.
This is more true than you know. In the Mojave, most sites are wind rated to 110 MPH. I've seen the aftermath of what happens up there when they fail. There's no one on these sites, so nobody dies, but holy shyt. Now your door knocking residential solar installer type guy, yeah, he ain't wind rating sh!t IMO.
Neither of you addressed your silly presumption that there's no sun after the hurricane.
And pretending to be an expert on something as simple as solar is pretty sad.
Took you 20+ years to figure out how it works?
Weird, I also never said there wasn't going to be sun. I said irradiance will affect production levels. Or rather I inferred that. Sorry. I'm confused. But don't let that stop you, go ahead and tell me what I don't know. Aloha Comrade!
Expert is your word. I don’t pretend to be an expert, I do have experience. That’s all I’ve ever claimed.
It’s so simple that you have it figured out, we can tell by reading your posts.
No pendejo, I figured out how it works the first day. Pre internet.
35-45% in the Tampa Bay Area.
Costs and benefits of underground power lines in Florida
When a hurricane whips through, underground power lines could keep the lights on. But it costs as much as $1 million a mile, and when something does go wrong, they have to be dug up to get fixed -- which opponents warn will drive up electric bills.
I had a client last year have a direct hit lightning strike on a rooftop solar installation. Took out solar inverters, the circuit boards on their AC system and a bunch of other stuff. Pretty much everything electronic was fried even if it was on a surge protector. Was probably about a $100,000 insurance claim. Was wondering if the solar on the roof could have actually attracted the lightning strike or if it was just random? Normally a building like that would have a lightning suppression system I would think.
your best photos yet!Yea right dummy. The thing with these wells is that they put them in the ground and they produce for decades. There are wells like this all over Marcellus Shale country bringing clean natural gas to the entire Eastern Seaboard. Once the drilling process is complete and the well is producing you're left with a wellhead sticking out of a concrete pad and that's about it.
This picture is what the newest well site on my parents property looked like at the end of the drilling process about four years ago with still some equipment on site. On my last visit this area was completely overgrown with tall grass. If you google map Marcellus Shale country you'll see sites like this one all over the place in various stages due to the recent drilling boom. Over the next decade you will see them all but vanish into the landscape as they continue to produce gas for decades to come.
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This shot of a well not on my parent's property is similar to what remains on the pad site in my picture above. That is a completed gas well. It connects to an underground network of pipelines.
By the way, this is what a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia looks like. The bear is sitting on it.
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This is the view of the pipeline looking up the hillside in during deer season. Makes for easy deer hunting especially when you plant strategic food plots along said pipeline.
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Why did you bring cloud cover into this discussion?
To show off you pre-internet expertise?
Because cloud cover is the single thing that most affects performance.
Feel free to prove otherwise.