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Renewable Energy - Can Solar Panels Fly

Sadly, it’s true: solar panels can really fly and about a decade ago, reports of damage to and by solar panel systems were a common thing after a storm. So what happened? On a small scale, you can mount perhaps 20 solar panels flush to the angled roof of your own house. On a large scale, there are vast arrays of thousands and thousands of solar panels installed on the flat or nearly flat roofs of industrial buildings.

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