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Well this is both hilarious… and depressing at the same time. Trump’s Interior Secretary just discovered that the sun sets at night… Doug Burgum said: “When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work.” Then, Rep. Jared Huffman literally held a battery up... and said: “I request to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the Secretary is unaware of. It’s a battery.” Then Huffman added that China has figured it out, “that’s why they are cleaning our clock on clean energy.” Energy storage exists. Grid-scale batteries exist. Entire countries are building them at scale right now. But, here we are, still debating whether solar panels stop working when the sun sets. At some point it stops being a policy disagreement and starts feeling like we’re arguing with reality itself.show more

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Tara Dublin4 months ago

Doug Burgumeister is a compromised traitor @SecretaryBurgum

Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅4 months ago

Sadly, these people refuse to see the future, stuck in the past, killing our planet.

Fiat Panda™ #TUFAC #LFC4 months ago

The alternative, is of course, to invade another country where the sun is still shining. It's always sunny in the Middle East and Africa…

Perry Masonry4 months ago

Jesus effing Christ, when did Conservative American (and Canadian as well) politicians get so stupid? Did they get a defective education or something?

mike ruberti4 months ago

Same argument as wind energy. Dipshit trump and his band of idiots keep saying the same thing.

DA4 months ago

More evidence of another person of my gender, that has been given an interior secretary position that he is clearly not qualified for. People like him have been promoted his entire life, even though their are other people far more qualified and educated

Nemesis Wanted4 months ago

In 100 years historians will talk about how just as the British Empire got left behind as it held onto coal as the world went to oil and gas, the US not only didn’t move into renewables at scale, but they handed the entire industry to our biggest competitor to sell to the world.

John Campbell4 months ago

Somebody else said everyone’s worried about China leaving us behind with military tech or whatever. Where’s the urgency about getting left behind by renewable energy. Or any energy production at all? China’s building solar, wind, nuclear, all of it.

John Quick4 months ago

China is cleaning our clock on battery technology also. Check out their gravity batteries.

James Graham4 months ago

@Logically_JC The Trump petrochemical cabinet is filled with dumb people. Solar farms & offshore wind farms work. In Denmark the offshore wind farms, also create a safe reef like habitat for fish. In Schleswig-Holstein they have solar panels along railway and freeways. Plus this experiment 👇

M McGuire4 months ago

Everyone in this cabinet is dumb as a box of dirt. Just how Trump likes it.

JK4 months ago

Wow just wow. “That’s why they’re cleaning our clock on clean energy” ? China has SIX TIMES MORE COAL FIRED GENERATING PLANTS THAN THE REST IF THE WORLD COMBINED! And 300 new ones under construction…. Typical Democratic logic. Know nothing and lie about it

@ParapenteJohn4 months ago

The entire Trump administration is plagued with the infectious Trump disease of ignorance superseded by blatant stupidity.

peter hurst4 months ago

You have to sort of admire #DougBurgum for displaying his complete ignorance to the nation. Hilarious... 🤣

paul shircliff ☮️4 months ago

They will stick with being “technically correct” - a solar panel produces 0 in the dark… What they obfuscate and ignore is that it is in a system that has storage, so the system can still produce

Nolen 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱4 months ago

The republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Oil.

Michelle4 months ago

@unclechud The ignorance on display by Trump & his goons is simply unfathomable. They are completely clueless & entirely inept. They’re putting this country at risk with their backwards thinking — or lack thereof.

Charles Peterson4 months ago

In Texas, wind replaces solar power at night, leaving only small gaps in early evening and early morning. But also, gas plants can be powered up quickly, and Ercot has pretty good predictions of what is needed for next 24 hours. Renewable electricity saves a lot of gas.

cecil4 months ago

This is why politicians should retire at 65. Just like the rest of us. But even more important for them. Waiting for them to die is a terrible idea. But still, I can’t fucking wait. That generation was done 30 years ago. They just haven’t accepted reality yet

John Sellers4 months ago

China and Europe have huge batteries. Its called pumped storage. They dominate both construction and operation. Two reservoirs ideally separated by 3,000ft. Pump the water up the hill during the day. Release during the night powering turbines. You can also buy nuclear baseload in the middle of the night when its cheap and sell it in the afternoon when air conditioning kicks in. In some cases the nuke will pay you to take their electricity. All depends on the intraday load patterns. Google also options theory and game theory. You'll need it to go further.

Jerry Stafford4 months ago

Burgum's comment is correct, Huffman's comment is childishly stupid. Batteries simply release energy produced by a generator. Eventually they run out of electricity if they are not recharged by something that produces electricity, in this case solar panels. You either understand this, and are just another dishonest hack, or you are just not too smart. You can decide which title suits you best.

robert_heath4 months ago

Nobody is talking about “shutting down base load” except him. Yes, we need a grid that is optimized for both average and peak electricity demand but this is not a new, unsolved problem. The industry has been doing this for decades. It’s a red herring.

Rini Davis4 months ago

@Logically_JC Congress should be required to take tests….cognitive, political, social media skills, congressional ethics etc ….anything to educate them!! 💙🫶🏻💙

karen4 months ago

We’re living through the dark ages of science.

Ed 🏴4 months ago

Hail makes them stop working.

CVanDutch4 months ago

The entire GOP platform for the past 30 years (but so much worse under MAGA) has been to pretend to be a victim in some way while denying demonstrable reality in the process.

Andrew Miller4 months ago

@tregevis The Trump Administration are like a non stop episode of SNL

FBB4 months ago

He actually talked about the problems with batteries. Apparently, your intellectual curiosity ends when you agree.

Andrew17764 months ago

Is Jared Huffman aware that batteries don’t produce electricity?

Kathy Crawford4 months ago

@Moods1915 Clearly something the LNP & One Nation also have failed to grasp

Johnny Doester4 months ago

So if I hook up a bunch of batteries and attach them to my house they will produce electricity and save me money? Huffman basically said batteries produce electricity, is there any way he can produce something that shows us all how to make that happen?

Carl LaFong4 months ago

Burgum is an ignorant tool put in place to distract from trump looting the treasury.

Jackie Archer4 months ago

Live off the grid and solar panels and batteries do work. Not that complicated. These guys are stuck in the fossil fuel era which is expensive and not sustainable.

JLo🏝️🇬🇱4 months ago

@LongTimeHistory He doesn’t understand stored energy. Even me with limited knowledge on how it works can use my common sense to determine that

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51,232 views • 1 year ago

I met Craig, the first Octopus Cosy 9 Heat Pump customer in Yorkshire, at The Energy Tech Summit. He has solar panels & battery, heats his home with the heat pump, charges his electric car at home - and drives 12,000 miles a year. And pays nothing for his energy. With solar to generate his electricity, battery to shift it to the evening & sell it to the grid, and a smart tariff to optimise all his electricity. This is the sort of stuff the fossil fuel industry know is coming and its one reason you see such vitriol. Of course, we'll still use fossil fuels for many years - but by ditching petrol/diesel and gas, people like Craig are living the cheaper, cleaner future and we shouldn't allow incumbency to slow it down.

I met Craig, the first Octopus Cosy 9 Heat Pump customer in Yorkshire, at The Energy Tech Summit. He has solar panels & battery, heats his home with the heat pump, charges his electric car at home - and drives 12,000 miles a year. And pays nothing for his energy. With solar to generate his electricity, battery to shift it to the evening & sell it to the grid, and a smart tariff to optimise all his electricity. This is the sort of stuff the fossil fuel industry know is coming and its one reason you see such vitriol. Of course, we'll still use fossil fuels for many years - but by ditching petrol/diesel and gas, people like Craig are living the cheaper, cleaner future and we shouldn't allow incumbency to slow it down.

Greg Jackson

59,733 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.

Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.

Dustin

21,594 views • 5 months ago

Spencer Pratt drags Bill Maher out of his liberal bubble and brought him back down to earth. Maher was annoyed that Pratt didn’t know the specifics about taxes on solar powered energy, but Pratt humbled him with the REAL problems Angelenos care about. MAHER: “This is a state that is constantly overthinking everything, and over regulating everything.” “Trust me, I know. I did whole bits about how it took me three years to get the solar turned on.” “Solar! Something they want you to have!” PRATT: “But now they’re taxing you, I think, for having it.” MAHER: “They are?” PRATT: “I think so.” MAHER: “What do you mean you think so?! You have to know!” PRATT: “I don’t need to know about solar, you know?” “I need to focus on making sure the moms are safe and the animals are not being abused. That’s my party.” MAHER: “I know. but if you’re the mayor...” PRATT: “Solar panels, that’s going to be somebody I’m hiring. That’s my deputy mayor who’s going to worry about the solar panels.” MAHER: “No, Spencer. I got bad news. If you’re the mayor, you are going to have to learn some of these issues more intricately.” PRATT: “Solar panels...we’re about three years from worrying about solar panels.” “We need to get all of the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks and then I can worry about solar panels.” MAHER: “We can’t walk and chew gum at the same time?” PRATT: “With the state of LA right now, solar panels, you’re gonna spit that gum out.”

Spencer Pratt drags Bill Maher out of his liberal bubble and brought him back down to earth. Maher was annoyed that Pratt didn’t know the specifics about taxes on solar powered energy, but Pratt humbled him with the REAL problems Angelenos care about. MAHER: “This is a state that is constantly overthinking everything, and over regulating everything.” “Trust me, I know. I did whole bits about how it took me three years to get the solar turned on.” “Solar! Something they want you to have!” PRATT: “But now they’re taxing you, I think, for having it.” MAHER: “They are?” PRATT: “I think so.” MAHER: “What do you mean you think so?! You have to know!” PRATT: “I don’t need to know about solar, you know?” “I need to focus on making sure the moms are safe and the animals are not being abused. That’s my party.” MAHER: “I know. but if you’re the mayor...” PRATT: “Solar panels, that’s going to be somebody I’m hiring. That’s my deputy mayor who’s going to worry about the solar panels.” MAHER: “No, Spencer. I got bad news. If you’re the mayor, you are going to have to learn some of these issues more intricately.” PRATT: “Solar panels...we’re about three years from worrying about solar panels.” “We need to get all of the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks and then I can worry about solar panels.” MAHER: “We can’t walk and chew gum at the same time?” PRATT: “With the state of LA right now, solar panels, you’re gonna spit that gum out.”

Overton

1,164,122 views • 4 months ago

$Elon Musk has been very clear about how Earth can transition to sustainable energy much easier and far faster than anything else with solar When you break down his reasoning, the logic is undeniable: Earth is already solar-powered: The sun runs our weather systems and entire ecosystem. Human power generation is just tapping into a system that already works It’s indirect fusion: We have a giant, free fusion reactor in the sky. We only need a tiny fraction of its energy to power all of human civilization It has almost Zero operational costs....Unlike fossil fuels, solar requires no feedstock. Once a panel is installed, it generates free power for decades The only challenge is the upfront cost of installation and financing but with massive progress it is now lowering these costs, solar is positioned to beat natural gas and everything else hands down Elon Musk says: "If it doesn’t, we’re in deep trouble" But the progress we've made proves the solar revolution is here to stay Simple truth: The sun is free, endless, and already powers the planet Once the panels are up, the electricity is basically free forever This is how we transition the world to sustainable energy... faster and easier than anyone thought possible$

Elon Musk has been very clear about how Earth can transition to sustainable energy much easier and far faster than anything else with solar When you break down his reasoning, the logic is undeniable: Earth is already solar-powered: The sun runs our weather systems and entire ecosystem. Human power generation is just tapping into a system that already works It’s indirect fusion: We have a giant, free fusion reactor in the sky. We only need a tiny fraction of its energy to power all of human civilization It has almost Zero operational costs....Unlike fossil fuels, solar requires no feedstock. Once a panel is installed, it generates free power for decades The only challenge is the upfront cost of installation and financing but with massive progress it is now lowering these costs, solar is positioned to beat natural gas and everything else hands down Elon Musk says: "If it doesn’t, we’re in deep trouble" But the progress we've made proves the solar revolution is here to stay Simple truth: The sun is free, endless, and already powers the planet Once the panels are up, the electricity is basically free forever This is how we transition the world to sustainable energy... faster and easier than anyone thought possible

X Freeze

10,132 views • 6 months ago