{"id":328025,"date":"2024-05-12T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=328025"},"modified":"2024-05-12T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T08:36:54","slug":"the-worlds-largest-floating-solar-farm-wrecked-by-a-storm-just-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=328025","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"328028\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=328028\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,799\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"06-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/05\/09\/worlds-largest-floating-solar-farm-wrecked-by-a-storm\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">h\/t Dr. Willie Soon; Who could have predicted acres of fragile floating structures would be vulnerable to bad weather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Madhya Pradesh: Summer Storm Damages World\u2019s Largest Floating Solar Plant at Omkareshwar Dam (Watch Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a floating solar plant at Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Omkareshwar dam. The floating&nbsp;solar plant, situated in the backwater of the dam, is the biggest of its kind in the world. A joint venture between &nbsp;Madhya Pradesh Govt and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the project was nearly completed and ready for its launch. A part of the project became operational last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project near the village of Kelwa Khurd, aimed at generating 100 MW of electricity, with additional capacities of 88MW at Indawadi and 90 MW at Ekhand village. However, on Tuesday, summer storms with the speed of 50kmph hit the project and threw the solar panels all around the place. No employee was fortunately injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lokmattimes.com\/national\/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damages-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.lokmattimes.com\/national\/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damages-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video of the disaster;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AL GORE please pick up the red emergency phone.<br><br>Storm destroys the world&#39;s largest floating Solar Panel Farm.<br><br>What Valedictorian engineer signed off on this stupidity.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zRBOREibGi\">pic.twitter.com\/zRBOREibGi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1787224785170190752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who has ever owned a boat, particular a large boat which gets left in the water, knows what a harsh environment the sea can be. Some kind of failure was inevitable. If it hadn\u2019t been a storm, there are plenty of other things which could have gone wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greens keep telling us we can expect more frequent and extreme superstorms<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 so what is the point of building vulnerable floating structures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plastics tend to disintegrate under tropical sunlight, especially when in contact with water or water spray. Ultraviolet from the sun drives exotic chemical reactions, which leads to chemical breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metal sitting in water is difficult to manage, even stainless steel is not immune to corrosion. All metal structures in contact with water need to be protected with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galvanic_anode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sacrificial anodes<\/a>&nbsp;or comparable protective measures. Electricity and metal are an especially bad combination, any electrical fault which causes a current to run through metal in contact with water can cause corrosion to occur thousands of times faster than normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us hope developers and politicians take the hint, and stop throwing our money at inherently flawed ideas like floating solar arrays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens keep telling us we can expect more frequent and extreme superstorms \u2013 so what is the point of building vulnerable floating structures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":328028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691828577,691828574,691828575,691828576],"class_list":["post-328025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chemical-reactions","tag-floating-solar-plant","tag-plastics","tag-tropical-sunlight","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/06-11.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1nkJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":342321,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342321","url_meta":{"origin":328025,"position":0},"title":"CFACT report exposes Maine\u2019s massive floating wind folly","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/08\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Wind turbines are inefficient, intermittent, expensive, carry a heavy environmental footprint, and are not up to the task of powering the future.","rel":"","context":"In \"coast of Maine.\"","block_context":{"text":"coast of Maine.","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=coast-of-maine"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Floating-wind-turbine-portugal-dept-of-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C822&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Floating-wind-turbine-portugal-dept-of-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C822&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Floating-wind-turbine-portugal-dept-of-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C822&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Floating-wind-turbine-portugal-dept-of-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C822&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Floating-wind-turbine-portugal-dept-of-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C822&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":315851,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=315851","url_meta":{"origin":328025,"position":1},"title":"Can \u2018clean energy\u2019 schemes get any crazier?\u00a0","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/02\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Interior Department\u2019s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently designated\u00a0two Wind Energy Areas\u00a0in deepwater areas off the Oregon coast. 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