David VanHorn wrote:
>>  Yes. Maybe one of the alternatives will be solar...
>>     
>
> Although rare, consider the effects of a significant hailstorm
> (baseball sized hail over 10's of square miles at 100MPH, punching
> holes in buildings), or tornado, or lightning strikes on that rather
> large and rather delicate solar plant.
>
> When you have a large scale structure like that, rare weather events
> for any given acre add up.
>
> I'm not against solar, but it's still pretty impractical.
>   
That is one reason to use So Arizona, little hail, no tornadoes or snow, 
little rain. But somebody will have to
blow the sand off of the concentrators...I've been here 6 years, have 
never seen really bad weather yet.

There ARE a few electrical storms. Awesome to hear the rumble of thunder 
bounce off the nearby mountains.

--Bob A
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