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4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, fission power plants, famously vulnerable to average thunderstorms.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I so rarely get to reference this "so bad it's good" made-for-TV movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Twister

This television film was inspired by a real-life near disaster that had taken place on June 24. 1998, when an F2 tornado hit the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio resulting in the loss of off-site power. Despite that, the film bears no resemblance to the actual events at Davis-Besse.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen that one! I vaguely remember not being blown away, but also thinking it wasn't as terrible as I was expecting going into it.

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, we all saw how well one of them held up to a tidal wave

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 37 points 1 year ago

You realize that thunderstorms are unrelated to tsunamis?

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 4 points 1 year ago

What are tsunamis, but thunderstorms of the sea?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

what are thunderstorms but the ocean of the sky?

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 2 points 1 year ago

Now you're getting it!

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

well, no, because the sky is the ocean of the sky.

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 1 year ago

I like the way you think!

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Take a minute and rethink this comment.

[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Take a minute and rethink this comment.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, we all saw how well one of them held up to a tidal wave

Nowhere in the first comment did the poster claim that tidal waves and thunderstorms are related.

Maybe you came in after CrimeDad made their comment.

I can understand the confusion.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

Done. No change in my position. In what way do you think that thunderstorms (a weather phenomenon caused by atmospheric conditions) and tsunamis (a wave caused by an earthquake or large underwater landslide) are related?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, we all saw how well one of them held up to a tidal wave

Where did the original comment say that they were related?

You made something up.

If you feel like it's relevant I guess that's your choice.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

and famously resilient in the event of a bombing, or direct plane strike, or PWR depressurization.

Yeah no, they're built like fucking rocks, because they are one.

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