{"id":344427,"date":"2024-09-24T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344427"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:36:18","slug":"swiss-alpine-photovoltaic-system-begins-to-crumble-after-just-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344427","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Alpine Photovoltaic System Begins To Crumble After Just 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photovoltaic projects crumble in harsh alpine environments\u2026Swiss solar panels on dam project fails after just 2 years. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Who cares if it works or not? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s often how the green racket works: Conjure up some green energy producing pie-in-the-sky project, no matter how unfeasible it may be, propose it to technically illiterate bureaucrats \u2013 who permit and fund it with little hesitation \u2013 build it, and, after realizing it won\u2019t ever work, abandon it and let the next generation deal with the mess. In the meantime, you will have earned a tidy sum of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest likely example of such a project is \u201cAxpo in Glarus S\u00fcd\u201d, described at Blackout News here<\/a>: \u201cSolar panels at Muttsee dam fail after two years \u2013 solar plant not suitable for mountain use.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PV system installed on a dam in Switzerland. AI-generated image, Source:\u00a0Blackout News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss Axpo Glarus S\u00fcd solar project<\/a> consisted of installing solar panels on a dam with ideal orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extremely harsh environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was heralded as a pioneering project and designed to last 20 years while providing green power (at least in the summertime) to nearly 3000 people. But, as Blackout News reports<\/a>: \u201cAfter just two years, considerable problems are already apparent. Of the 5,000 or so solar panels installed, around 270 are damaged, reports the newspaper S\u00fcdostschweiz<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A solar system in the harsh environment of the Swiss Alps? What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely the builders and those approving the project had to have been familiar with extremely harsh winter conditions and massive snowfalls  of the Swiss Alps, and that the system would never have a chance. Obviously no one cares much about reality anymore. The important thing, it seems, is to grab all that green cash and make a stash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panels damaged after just 2 years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already, just 2 years in operation, 270 panels (5%) of the Muttsee project need to be replaced, and that at an exorbitant cost. Just check out the Axpo promotion video and take a look at the equipment needed to build the project. The helicopters, cranes, rigging and this caliber of personnel aren\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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