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.