Sigh… Same energy as the following:
We lost all that sunlight. Add this to the long list of reasons why “farming” food is unreliable.
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Best part here is that it’s a nonsense statement. Generated electricity is measured in watt hours (be they kilowatt, megawatt, or gigawatt).
Great point! He said “solar energy” which would be watthours. If he said “solar power” he could have used watts.
Probably the least nonsense part of his statement (imo) and not the part worth an argument.
I did some quick math assuming he meant watt-hours and it came out to the us averaging about 11 gigawatt-hours/day in 2022. I feel like we didn’t lose over double our usage during the short amount of time the few solar panels lost the sun, and if we did holy shit what are we doing with anything else.
Also, you can’t lose what you don’t have.
If only we had the technology to predict solar eclipses!
Or to store electricity in some sort of battery of storage containers.
Burn the witch!
Use the heat to evaporate water and spin a turbine! Wait…
Easier and far more cheaper to just store the engergy in the grid for such a short term outage… batteries are a very expensive short life solution
If only human invent a way to store electricity. 🤔
Or even just transport it over large distances. Oh well, guess we’ll just be stuck using candles forever.
Not even large distances. From some quick googling, the umbra is only 100 to 160 km wide. For everywhere else, it would be the equivalent of a cloudy day. And this only lasts for minutes.
Don’t tell him about nightfall!
had to look this idiot up and to the surprise of nobody… he’s a right wing fossil fuel shill.
"…And now they are going after agriculture and of course, denim, which is cotton. Cotton also is deeply rooted in Jim Crow and racism, so that’s another reason to get rid of cotton. But also they want to get rid of cotton in denim because everything causes climate change until they just eliminate people writ large. And then there’ll be no more climate change when we’re all dead, which we may be from the eclipse in a couple of hours. Who knows? When we’re all dead, there’ll be no more climate worries.”
this is the sewerage that seems to flow from his brain.
I guess the sun coming up tomorrow isn’t guaranteed for him since he’s all-in on fossil fuels that will destroy the planet anyway.
I doubt anyone’s paying him to write that sort of nonsense.
The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct but the people saying “nah oil belongs in the ocean” have our best interest in mind? Well I fully believe him.
The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct
See this is a little bit of a mischaracterization - the Earth will likely recover from climate change. The human race are the sensitive species here.
We need to rethink our rhetoric to make it clear slowing climate change is for the benefit of humans, not “the earth”
You’re right I forget people don’t realize destroying the planet is like burning your own house down but your house will be fine and you’ll die.
Holy shit.
This ISNT SATIRE???
Ffs
if you can actually stand the insane levels of smarm and bullshit
Fox Across America w/ Jimmy Failla - April 8
seek to 1:42:17 for the disgorgement of this priceless nugget. if you skip around his segment you will also find the usual harrasment of Greta Thunberg and all things sane - but I would not wish to inflict listening to this dreck on anyone.
also hot take: denim is just a shit product.
It’s the modern era, im sure we can produce MUCH more resilient fabrics and cloth items than denim.
Yeah, the “PTF” at the end of his username stands for “Power The Future”, the name of his special interest group, which is doublespeak for “do everything possible to avoid acknowledging the climate crisis and the role fossil fuels have played in getting us here.”
That should be in an encyclopedia as an example of a strawman argument.
Wooooow.
Wackadoodle free association.
when we’re all dead, which we may be from the eclipse in a couple of hours
Holy shit, he channeled The Onion: Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast.
Wait until this moron finds out how many GiGaWaTts we will lose after sunset
What a Gigatwat
I remember at the Ellen’s Energy adventure ride at Epcot they had Bill Nye discuss types of energy. When they get to solar Bill Nye goes, “The sun doesn’t shine all day and weather can make it go down” then cutting to footage of a lone oil rig behind a sunset followed by triumphant music.
Oh danny boy, the pipes the pipes are ca-alling for you shut your ignorant pie hole up
I missed out on about 5kwh. Guess I’ll start pulling the panels off the roof now.
This is unironically the standard corporate response to any temporary slowing of growth.
Why wouldn’t it be? They already took the subsidy and got the green washing. They can switch back to the grid and move it to the expense line on the P&L. And sell the hardware to recoup the difference in cost the subsidy didn’t cover.
You can’t just wait for government funds to come to you. You have to take it before your competition does. And if you exhaust the funds before they or anyone else can take advantage, you look better to the market. Stock price go up.
Wait till hears about night.
I suspect if you went through his history he has already told us that solar is useless because of night, and that wind is useless because sometimes it’s still
Please let this be sarcasm.
Unfortunately it’s not. That’s the founder of “Power The Future” which is a mouthpiece for fossil fuel industry/right wing propaganda. The dude is a professional piece of shit.
30GW out of how much Daniel? We need some proper stats from Koch’s mouthpiece.
Yes let’s not invest in green energy because checks notes once every 20 years we will lose a fraction of a percentage of solar energy for about 4 minutes.
Also not for nothing but wind energy actually picks up during that time and generally for a few days before and after too.
the only solution is that we blow up the moon
Just carve a hole in it so that the sun shines through even during an eclipse. Heck, have fun with it and make it a smiley face so you can see the Man in the Moon better during an eclipse.
Can we tell everyone that Jesus said they need to go to moon first?
With solar powered rockets? We’re doomed!!
