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ICYMI: World’s Largest Floating Solar
Power Plant Wrecked by Storm Just Before
Grand Launch (VIDEO)

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Posted By: hershey, 5/6/2024 11:40:32 AM

The world’s largest floating solar power plant, located at Omkareshwar Dam in Madhya Pradesh, India, was obliterated by a storm on April 9, 2024. , just days before its scheduled grand inauguration. The ambitious project faced the wrath of nature as strong winds reaching speeds of up to approximately 31 miles per hour tore through the installation, uprooting and severely damaging the high-tech solar panels that floated on the backwater of the dam.

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Hah...a 31 MPH wind destroyed it?? That wind speed is not really that bad....and the video showed a gently rolling lake...

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 5/6/2024 11:45:48 AM (No. 1712950)
As the Brits would say "Pity..."
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Reply 2 - Posted by: StrikingViking 5/6/2024 11:48:29 AM (No. 1712952)
Winds of 31 mph? Oh my! Global warming must be the cause.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Corndoggies 5/6/2024 11:51:49 AM (No. 1712953)
Are we still importing engineers from India?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: thefield 5/6/2024 11:51:59 AM (No. 1712954)
Hardy har har Of course I am ntr gloating. Har Har.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: padiva 5/6/2024 11:54:44 AM (No. 1712955)
Does biden know about this? I am sure that he wants US tax payer dollars to pay to have it rebuilt. Gotta buy the Indian-American votes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 5/6/2024 11:54:52 AM (No. 1712956)
31 mph is not an unusually high wind speed
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/6/2024 11:56:43 AM (No. 1712957)
Solar power is a idea from idiots. Stresses from floating platforms would never allow a solar farm. Hail is destroying these plants on land. The cost of maintenance of these plants is never discussed. I have read there is very little service available. All these solar panels and EV batteries will do a lot more damage to the water ecosystem than all the grocery plastic bags.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Quigley 5/6/2024 11:57:27 AM (No. 1712959)
Let's just pretend/identify that the wind won't blow above 11 mph. We can, like good dims, assume the problem away. And then, when the wind doesn't obey, publicly fire those responsible and privately give them better jobs so they can destroy more infrastructure that we can use taxpayer dollars to rebuild and skim 10% off the top. Meritocracy was so unprofitable.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 5/6/2024 12:05:23 PM (No. 1712966)
The area can expect 10 days a year where wind speeds will exceed 28 mph. Add la large lake (long reach), large winds produce rollers of significant size. The panels were designed, I am confident, for higher wind speeds. But large waves are far more powerful, more damaging. Someone did not do their homework.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: konocti95 5/6/2024 12:19:55 PM (No. 1712971)
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee with his disciples when a sudden storm overcame them and they thought they would drown. People have been on notice for thousands of years about how dangerous lakes are. At least they didn't try to float them on WWII surplus ducks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: caljeepgirl 5/6/2024 12:32:32 PM (No. 1712976)
It can get windy on the water! That's why God invented sailboats. Actually, this is kind of sad.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 5/6/2024 12:35:01 PM (No. 1712978)
1 wonder how those panels would be cleaned from the moss that will surely grow. A once per year deep cleaning cycle ? On a floating array?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: jimincalif 5/6/2024 12:37:11 PM (No. 1712981)
A wave must have hit it. Chance in a million! https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=UsSDq426MRjjapW3
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Reply 14 - Posted by: red1066 5/6/2024 12:55:18 PM (No. 1712991)
What? It never gets windy in India? Thirty-one miles per hour winds is just a strong breeze. The trees barely move. What was this thing made of? Newspaper?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 5/6/2024 12:59:38 PM (No. 1712994)
A lesson between the difference between being wise and being foolish from children & a children’s song — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTuPa_1QC9c
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Tusker 5/6/2024 12:59:43 PM (No. 1712995)
outstanding!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 5/6/2024 1:02:25 PM (No. 1712996)
Should have proofread #15. Lol But, you get the point.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 5/6/2024 1:03:16 PM (No. 1713000)
I used to work near a DOE facility that experimented with different wind turbine designs. Once when hurricane force winds were blowing, I looked out my office window to see that all the turbines were idle. What is the use of a wind turbine that can't handle high wind speeds? Ditto for an ocean solar array that can't handle waves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: DVC 5/6/2024 1:05:18 PM (No. 1713002)
The ocean is a very unforgiving place. Anyone who imagines building any sort of a "floating" anything in the ocean had better build it about like an aircraft carrier or a supertanker, and even then.....sitting still is NOT OK in high seas, you need to be moving at a decent rate INTO the wind or the waves will rip you apart and roll you over. The folks who imagined this were idiots. But that isn't surprising, they imagine "free solar power" is free, when in reality it is very expensive, very unreliable.....and easily destroyed.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 5/6/2024 1:06:43 PM (No. 1713004)
Vicious 31 mph winds.......LOL! Here in Kansas that qualifies as a 'fairly windy day' but nothing of real note. Unbelievably stupid design.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/6/2024 1:32:42 PM (No. 1713025)
Back to the designing board! All those solar panels (thousands), banging into each other and breaking loose. Thirty-one mile per hour winds? Have to do better than that.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: DVC 5/6/2024 1:35:29 PM (No. 1713026)
And one of the idiot commentors on the story says "I was hoping that these would help make the weather better." So, stupidly imagines that the weather will change if we use solar panels? Wow, there are no limits on stupid.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 5/6/2024 1:44:09 PM (No. 1713030)
-“It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature”
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Reply 24 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 5/6/2024 1:54:13 PM (No. 1713034)
The picture says that #7 is probably correct. Wave crests push parts of any large floating vessel up while the troughs between them allow other parts to sag. As the waves pass, those forces are cyclicly reversed and the bending of the vessel will impact everything attached to it. There has to be enough rigidity in any floating vessel to withstand the forces imparted by wave action (yes, even aircraft carriers and supertankers are designed to bend). Looks like the bending in this case caused the attachment point of one or more of the arrays to fail. Then, the domino effect.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 5/6/2024 1:56:02 PM (No. 1713035)
Some days the winds never drop to 31 mph where I live. I always thought the 'scientists' in India were considered to be very smart and intelligent people.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Highlander 5/6/2024 2:00:42 PM (No. 1713038)
This reminds me of "Ozymandias" Man is not king of the elements of nature.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: skacmar 5/6/2024 2:05:35 PM (No. 1713040)
Did the damaged solar panels release any toxic chemicals into the water? If a 30 mph wind can destroy the floating solar farm, just imagine what a 150-200+ mph hurricane winds and waves will do to wind turbine farms out in the open ocean off the east coast of the USA.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: formerNYer 5/6/2024 2:12:29 PM (No. 1713048)
I guess this liberal dream won't be charging any elsectric cars.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: bpl40 5/6/2024 2:33:52 PM (No. 1713069)
To produce 1 Megawatt energy from a nuclear plant requires 1 square mile of land. Solar needs 70+ sq. miles and windmills need 420. Where on earth (if you will pardon the pun) are you going to get that much land? This whole business is asinine!
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Reply 30 - Posted by: daisey 5/6/2024 3:17:37 PM (No. 1713086)
31 mph winds destroyed it? Really?
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Reply 31 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 5/6/2024 3:45:34 PM (No. 1713109)
We're all sick of globalists.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: LadyHen 5/6/2024 4:27:40 PM (No. 1713129)
31mph? We get bigger gusts here during your run of the mill thunderstorm. But I am sure some big corporation made lots of money and the tax payers somewhere got fleeced so "working as intended." "Climate Change" Inc.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 5/6/2024 5:37:12 PM (No. 1713157)
Was it insured and who in their right mind would have insured it unless it was all a scam? I hear scamming is the main business in India.
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