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"Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen terrible images
coming out of Ukraine. Broken homes and apartments, injured people (especially
the children), and every other image of death and destruction has been heart
rending. But, there’s one interesting piece of good news that came out of the
country earlier this month proving that it’s pretty difficult to take out a
solar power plant.
On first glance, the damage to the Solar Generation’s Merefa power plant looks
horrific. There are solar panels and parts of solar panels lying everywhere and
a large crater in the ground deep enough for a man to stand in, and then some.
It looks like a bomb went off, largely because a bomb did go off. It was
attached to a Russian ballistic missile that had been aimed at the plant.
You can see both the damage and surveillance footage of the missile strike
itself in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE24O7Q2vgc
“This type of damage is typical for a rocket or projectile hitting solar power
plants in Ukraine,” Ignatiev said. “It should be noted that the station was
built on a swampy area using geo-screws, so the supporting structures of the
station were damaged locally as a result of the missile attack.”
But, according to
PV Magazine, it’s hard to keep a good solar plant down.
Crews at the 3.9-megawatt plant quickly went out, disconnected the damaged rows
of cells, and reconnected as many of the working rows back together as they
could. The result? 1.8 megawatts of solar power still goes into the Ukrainian
grid, which is almost half of the power the plant originally produced."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
