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It's fantastic that everything worked as planned and damage was very minimal. 99.9% of the 700,000+ solar panels (!!!!) are mounted on ground-based platforms.
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
It's fantastic that everything worked as planned and damage was very minimal. 99.9% of the 700,000+ solar panels (!!!!) are mounted on ground-based platforms. Whatever they did should immediately be adopted everywhere panels are mounted on the ground.
What I wonder is, what else do you need to do to build near the coast, where you have to deal with storm surge? The wind didn't do anywhere near the same amount of damage as the 10+ feet of seawater the hurricane pushed ashore - and I doubt that Babcock Ranch, as built, would have survived to the degree it did if it had to deal with storm surge.
- cardiffspaceman 4y agoThey built the place 30 miles inland. Source: > The community is located 30 miles inland to avoid coastal storm surges. Of course any given finite buffer can be overflowed by a larger finite threat.
- Doxin 4y agoPresumably you'd need tall dykes. 10 feet of storm surge isn't that crazy. In The Netherlands there are storm surge barriers that only close starting at a 10 foot surge.