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    Go Solar, Go up in Flames

    Another wonderful quirk of Net Zero.

    On the afternoon of April 14, 2020, dozens of firefighters arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Fresno, California, as thick plumes of smoke poured from the roof of the 880,000-square-foot warehouse.

    Some 220 solar panels and other equipment at the facility, known as FAT1, were damaged by the three-alarm fire, which was caused by "an undetermined electrical event within the solar system mounted on top of the roof," Leland Wilding, Fresno's fire investigator, wrote in an incident report.

    A little over a year later, about 60 firefighters were called to an even larger Amazon facility in Perryville, Maryland, to put out a two-alarm blaze, local news outlets reported.

    In the intervening months, at least four other Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions due to failures with their solar energy-generating systems, according to internal company documents viewed by CNBC.

    The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced "critical fire or arc flash events" in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, effecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion.

    "The rate of dangerous incidents is unacceptable, and above industry averages," an Amazon employee wrote in one of the internal reports.
    Amazon took solar rooftops offline last year after fires, explosions

    We will be told that this another good reason to go green. Only six out of 47 buildings burned down, so thankful for solar, it could have been much worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Another wonderful quirk of Net Zero.



    Amazon took solar rooftops offline last year after fires, explosions

    We will be told that this another good reason to go green. Only six out of 47 buildings burned down, so thankful for solar, it could have been much worse.
    Exactly.

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    So much for research and development.

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    We have a neighbor that had a full Tesla solar roof and windows installed awhile back. The whole time Texas was iced in/without power she was posting on Nextdoor app about how much electricity she was sending back to the grid. She was never without power and was getting paid for all the power she was still generating. Of course, she didn't what her roof and windows cost that she was surely still paying for.

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