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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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[โ€“] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem when photon containment breaks like this is that we can never be 100% sure which photons were SUPPOSED to be there, and which ones leaked out. We'll need a dedicated team of particle physicists with very small tweazers to have any hope of sorting out this mess.

[โ€“] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately the VST (Very Small Tweezers) project is running a decade behind schedule and needs an additional $10 billion in funding, but the older RSP (Rather Small Pliers) project could be retrofitted to support photon retrieval with a bit of light-absorbent paint.