Sort of like when the London metro was shut down because it was "the wrong kind of snow" that was on the tracks.
It was supposed to supply cheaper, greener energy to up to 5000 homes but after six years and tens of millions of dollars ($105m), a cutting-edge solar energy project has produced nothing other than a large taxpayer-funded pile of scrap.
Three thousand solar panels sit unused on a concrete pad after the pioneering Kogan Creek Solar Boost project was shelved due to rusting pipes and “rapidly moving cloudsâ€.
Of course, government is to blame, for not inspecting this in the first place.
Now the site’s manager alleges the Commonwealth and Queensland governments breached their contractual requirements by never inspecting the doomed $105 million project.
Run by French nuclear group Areva for Queensland state-owned power utility CS Energy, the project was designed to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emissions at the coal-fired Kogan Creek power station near Chinchilla.
But CS Energy scrapped the unfinished scheme last year, blaming "technical and contractual problems". It won't reveal exactly how much it cost, but recorded a $70 million impairment in its 2016 accounts because of the scheme.
Half that amount came from the Queensland Government's Carbon Reduction Program.
Commonwealth body the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) was to put up an additional $35 million in funding,
In a report to ARENA last September explaining why the project was cancelled, CS Energy pointed to steam pipes that rusted in the Queensland climate and "rapidly moving clouds".
Mr Canham said pipes had rusted when they were left uncollected at the Port of Brisbane during the 2011 floods because of a dispute between Areva and shipping company DHL. As a result only 20 per cent of them were useable.
Some of those involved speak poetically about the scoundrels who made off with the dough.
Nortask owner, Dalby businessman Hermes Speziali, said those responsible for the scheme "owe a duty of care to the people of Queensland and people of Australia ... who subsidised this project".
He said his company had tried to find potential buyers for the thousands of unused solar reflectors "and we couldn't find any takers".
"If [CS Energy] walk away, or they're mothballed, there can't be any value [in them]," he said.
"That's the saddest thing. The people who made the decisions, they're all on fat salaries and they're sweet.
"I'd be wanting someone's balls on a plate if I was to end up in such a predicament."