The stupid, it burns. This guy is US Secretary of Energy and blithely puts certifiably and grossly and embarrassingly incorrect statements on social media.
yes, he's totally mistaking "electricity makes up 20% of current global energy consumption" with "electricity will always make up 20% of global energy consumption". Maliciously or stupidly? Not totally sure.
I love that in his own post he criticizes people mistaking electricity for energy right after he mistakes electricity for energy (and makes wild, baseless assumptions for that matter...)
It's hard even to imagine the multiple scandals that such gross incompetence in an administration would have triggered in every single other timeline.
this (wrongly) condenses a complex topic into something simple. The deplorable, knuckle-dragging MAGA crew only cares about easily-remembered, small sound bites. This nonsense fulfills that requirement.
This literally cost him nothing to say and it'll probably have the effect he's going for.
Nobody's going to try to hold him up to this more than what you're doing, and nobody cares. His voters will still take this and "believe" it knowing it to be 100% false--250% false even since it's not even decipherable--and respond to anything you might say with, "Stop being rude."
Koch Network billionaires like Tim Mellon & Charles Koch are paying RFK Jr to lie about climate change & the fossil fuel industry's culpability in an ecocide.
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Sec'y Chris Wright is dumb as a post, or willing to shill whatever focus-grouped sloganeering team Trump tells him to use, so that it can keep rewarding the fossil fuel industry.
His facts are wrong. And not every solar panel is the same as every other, nor is every installation. He's also ignoring wind energy, perhaps because Trump is as afraid of it as he is of electricity, boats, and sharks. Wright is a shill.
Hahaha, i remember this type of images. But its just like ice cream can't be ordered online globally, it's not the production, it's a distribution problem.
No one is even suggesting 100% solar so the right wingers are basically fighting windmills.
Hm. Has Chris Wright published the calculation how he come to the conclusion? - I made a rough one and come to the rseult that it will be several 100 times more electric energy than we consume primary energy?! ...
Maybe Chris Wright is a genius maybe he is one like Trump ... i'm not unsure.
An interesting thought experiment, though. A chunk of the energy would be needed to power the massive number of solar lamps you would need to replace the sun's light. And a chunk more to keep us warm. I suspect we would need a huge array of solar panels out in space, too. Anyone done the maths?
Er. Mah. Gerd. The Stupid! It burns the brain to witness their lickspittle subservience to the Potato-in-Chief and his regime if Grifters and Ignoramuses.
A tweet from Secretary Chris Wright (@SecretaryWright) Profile photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie in front of an American flag, with a blue check mark and an official-looking badge icon.
The tweet reads:
"Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy.
One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the ELECTRICITY with ENERGY!"
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •I love that in his own post he criticizes people mistaking electricity for energy right after he mistakes electricity for energy (and makes wild, baseless assumptions for that matter...)
It's hard even to imagine the multiple scandals that such gross incompetence in an administration would have triggered in every single other timeline.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •where does one even start...
I kinda wish I could innocently ask him what light is.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •This literally cost him nothing to say and it'll probably have the effect he's going for.
Nobody's going to try to hold him up to this more than what you're doing, and nobody cares. His voters will still take this and "believe" it knowing it to be 100% false--250% false even since it's not even decipherable--and respond to anything you might say with, "Stop being rude."
I have a hard time calling him stupid for that.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •The shape of a lie is indicative of its source.
Koch Network billionaires like Tim Mellon & Charles Koch are paying RFK Jr to lie about climate change & the fossil fuel industry's culpability in an ecocide.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •ah yeah, can confirm. voltage x current x time results in the famous electrenergy. very different from energy.
and to the stake with people, claiming electrical energy is the noblest form of energy, because it can turn in every other form
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •Sec'y Chris Wright is dumb as a post, or willing to shill whatever focus-grouped sloganeering team Trump tells him to use, so that it can keep rewarding the fossil fuel industry.
His facts are wrong. And not every solar panel is the same as every other, nor is every installation. He's also ignoring wind energy, perhaps because Trump is as afraid of it as he is of electricity, boats, and sharks. Wright is a shill.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •Hahaha, i remember this type of images.
But its just like ice cream can't be ordered online globally, it's not the production, it's a distribution problem.
No one is even suggesting 100% solar so the right wingers are basically fighting windmills.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •»Total Surface Area Required To Fuel The World With Solar Power«
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(Even based on US Department of Energy calculations: eia.gov/outlooks/archive/ieo09… )
A calculation results in an area estimate of 👉0.13% of earth's land masses👈: large.stanford.edu/courses/202…
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •Stop assuming truth is in any way related to this US administration!
It’s more related to WWE ”wrestling”.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •Hm. Has Chris Wright published the calculation how he come to the conclusion? - I made a rough one and come to the rseult that it will be several 100 times more electric energy than we consume primary energy?! ...
Maybe Chris Wright is a genius maybe he is one like Trump ... i'm not unsure.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •I'm assuming human yearly use is ~145 PWh / year.
Also assuming an average solar panel yield of 500 kWh / square meter / year.
(note that typical nominal output (MW) ratings are useless for this yield calculation, because how much MWh did you actually make?)
In my napkin calculation this means you need about 290 billion m^2, so 290 thousand km^2, so about 6 times the Netherlands.
It's a very rough calculation with outrageously lazy assumptions, for my own entertainment.
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •It seems to be based on this report
iea.org/reports/key-world-ener…
Specifically section 3 Final Consumption which states energy use in electric form is about 20% of the total.
(This is referenced by the Wikipedia article on Electric Energy Consumption en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr…)
form of energy consumption that uses electric energy
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in reply to Peter Gleick • • •a recent calculation came out to 50km X 50km of solar would power the entire world.
Obviously needs storage and be spread around, but a bit different.
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A tweet from Secretary Chris Wright (@SecretaryWright) Profile photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie in front of an American flag, with a blue check mark and an official-looking badge icon.
The tweet reads:
"Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy.
One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the ELECTRICITY with ENERGY!"
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