U.S. Interior Secretary Is Stupid About Solar

Fox Business viewers got an up close and personal look at how utterly stupid Doug Burgum is about solar. I suppose he could just be lying to them but liars on Fox Biz??? Perish the thought.

During a discussion with Stuart Varney about the heat wave blanketing the east, he complained, "We've had times during the last couple of days where, in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars this country spent on wind, we only had like 1% or 2% of the electricity being generated by wind."

Oh. Well, actually, wind is 5 percent of energy generation but only 2 percent of energy consumption. And those numbers vary depending on where one lives. It's hard to imagine wind farms just outside of Washington, DC, so yeah. Low percentage. In fact, there are some wind farms offshore and onshore in nearby states, but none serving DC. Yet.

Turning to solar, he said, "And then of course when the sun goes down, you have a catastrophic failure called sunset and there's no solar energy produced and yet we're subsidizing these things that are intermittent, unreliable and expensive."

Um, excuse me??? A catastrophic failure called sunset? Yes, he is that dumb. Apparently he thinks China has found a way to keep the sun up 24/7 or something, since they're producing enough energy between solar and wind to supply all of Turkey or Indonesia now.

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