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Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing into Panels at 150 MPH Destroys Solar Farm (cowboystatedaily.com)
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[–] PixlShft 1 points 2 years ago

That is a lot of velocity and mass to deal with. Seems like some sort of retractable mechanism could help. Even if it just allows the panels to take a more vertical position during extreme weather events so that they aren't catching those iceball heaters mother nature is pitching