Nick Fish @nickfish.me · May 13 And here comes @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social from the top rope
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MAGAts are THE STUPIDEST people on the planet. Hands down!
I’m going to strongly disagree with those here who think the guy is stupid. He’s evil and corrupt and knows full well about batteries & etc of renewables but he’ll never admit it. What he said was what he’s been paid to say by the oil industry and by the need to get re-elected in deep red ND.
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They really are that stupid. 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
I believe the guy who said batteries was a different guy though
Ask him if he has a mobile and what happens when it’s unplugged. Get him to admit to the existence of batteries.
Well fossil fuel plants don’t work when the most evil country on earth doesn’t like you and places sanctions on you.
These really are the most ill prepared and incompetent people running our government.
He's as thick as mince, a living man with a vacuum between his ears..
Game. Set. Match.
that is true and he neglected to say the sun has to shine period NO cloudy days
Love the sarcasm
Wait until the secretary finds out that electricity demand in the grid peaks during daylight hours…
Solar panels don't work if the sun don't shine. Is that a threat?
But those cost a LOT of money, who is going to pay for those to be at every home and huge ones for power companies? Who is going to pay for the heavier connections you will need? WE have SO much solar power here in the Netherlands, but batteries are the issue and power surges. 1/2
This was funny! Republican IDIOT!
The whole Republican party are idiots to repeat this incredible stupidity. I wonder how many flat earther's there are in Congress. 🤔
That's how you tell someone they are stupid without actually telling them they are stupid!
Reality TV ourselves into extinction
Trump also needs to be reminded how a battery works when he's railing against windmills.
Everyone skipping over the first part where, during the day, electricity just comes out of nowhere like fucking magic.
Burgum is a simpleton
Republicans are STUPID ROBBER BARONS AND SERIAL LIARS. ALL OF THEM REPUBLICANS
It's easy to make them look like idiots. What's harder is shutting them down.
North Dakota's finest.
The men in charge of the US would rather suspend $billions to destroy wind farm projects
arrested for battery of ego
Loyalty to the mad king is their only ‘competence’ on which they were appointed
First thing I thought! Does he not know about batteries?
The fucking idiot also made some comment about windmills saying something about “they don’t work if the winds not blowing. You can’t make up this level of fucking stupid.
The Santa Ana winds were blowing hard and my neighbor's 8-year-old said "I bet the windmills are storing lots of electricity today" and how is it that a grade schooler gets the concept of wind & solar energy better than the Interior Secretary?
Dumb shots running our country into the ground
I've said this before. There are high school dropouts in Third World countries taking a pause from their reading of classics like Tolstoy, to balk and are befuddled at the level of stupidity that is leading this nation for this long. Happy trails.
I guarantee you the only reason why he was picked as the secretary of the interior was to get some oil drilling contracts for the Trump family and himself.. of course he's gonna play dumb
These fucking morons and their ignorance of basic science… 🙄
He is from North Dakota
A superb reposte!
Does your phone work when it isn’t plugged in? How about your laptop? Morons.
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Or a 2-level barrage, or a McPhy Magnesium Hydrure system, or a Hydrolizer, or a sand heat storage, or... Anything that stores energy, in a more or less efficient and environnement-friendly way.
Also modern windmills exist.. wind still blows. ~Just like this guy. (Yellow text)
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They aren't really that stupid. They're just hoping that enough people listening to them (i.e. the MAGA base) are.
I swear to god all of Maga share 1 brain cell
More chump stupidity.
Love this 😂
Maga Moron stupid.
And that's why you also have wind. The big oil companies hate both
Ask Secretary Burgum directly, “What is a battery”? “How is a battery used”? Make him say it.
How dumb are Trump supporters, particularly his immediate crowd. Seriously?!
This clown Bergum was a fucking governor of a State here in America?!?And he doesn’t know what a battery is for?This is their argument for wind power too,“well when the wind ain’t blowing,these wind mills don’t produce power!”How in the fuck do these people get important jobs in government?WTAF USA?
Which btw the lady said it before he made his “request to enter into the record” but I get the point.
The real answer is that electricity usage is much higher during the day. Depending on season and location as much as 100% higher in the day. So the solar offsets the high usage times and drastically lowers prices. Add wind for all hours and a base of gas fired generators and it’s a robust SYSTEM.
From Australia where we have 1,000,s of roof top batteries. all across the country. The Secretary is a fuckwit!!!
So its not only Trump, its all the other lemons!!!!
"What happens if the fire runs out?" - introduces lighters.
My Rep!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
And that fucking moron is running the Interior Department? I'm actually surprised he hasn't renamed it to Department of Dumbassery.
Some logistical challenges, but with Vehicle to Home, you can run your house from your EV. Ours isn't quite there yet, but we can use our 84kWh EV to run any 240V or 12V equipment (UK). Plus solar panels & batteries, portable panels & power stations & smaller power banks. In the dark.
GOP litmus test— you must oppose all renewable energy and spout out Trump deranged dogma. Must do.
Yepp. Break the news: did not use the grid for 6 weeks now because of these two magnificent inventions. Works. Even in Scandinavia
I was honestly starting to wonder if I didn’t understand how it worked. So you’re telling me batteries ARE batteries? And they store energy? And they’re real?? Whew…
I love how some GOP spin doctor comes up with a ridiculous line of bullshit and then every GOP sycophant just repeats it devoid of any critical thinking about whether the argument they’re putting forth holds up to basic scrutiny.
Jaysus in heaven! I used to think that grown ups knew how stuff worked.
Burgum's ignorance is merely the propaganda Trump regime wants the media, the base and the millions of deliberately un-informed public to hear and parrot. Let's not pretend otherwise. Don't take the bait. The Trump regime is a lot smarter and more dangerous than they appear.
But...But batteries are DC, and my house is AC, so they won't work! So there.
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Still amuses me Just how little some know . Granddaughter is aware of Batteries The Sun & Solar panels 😁😉
Christ! How did we get here? 🤨
Lol
Billionaires should just stay in their lane, Great Plains Software ND, later sold to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in stock...not the US government.
Pedo-Shitler and all these conservative pedo-fuckwits know how power storage works but they need the "Solar power is an absolute scam!" soundbyte to be cut out & played on Fox "news" for the massively low IQ inbred conservative base, as that INSTANTLY becomes their ONLY "Truth" youtu.be/m4xEHsl-q4o
When the strait closes up, the machine doesn't work.
Gravity batteries storing huge amounts of energy have been built in Switzerland (Nant de Drance-900MW) and being built in China with Swiss help (RudongEVx). More on the way. This admin is saying America is too stupid to compete in that arena.
“But batteries are from science and science is gay. The pastor who molested both my children told me so.” -every confederate prehuman squatting in the filthy shithole south!
What’s a GW he wonders.
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So what happens when oil/coal/gas prices skyrocket because, IDK, some orange fool picks a war of choice with a major oil/coal/gas exporter? IG the world will never know...
Priceless Trumpian ineptitude
GOP'S WORLD 101😱😵💫🥴😂
#Americans politicians aren't stupid. They are voluntarily and vocally ignorant so they can get the stupid voters (~35% of voters) to consistently vote and support them.
Loved this take down!
There’s stupid, damned stupid, and MAGA stupid.
They were paid to scrap clean energy. They are earning their bribes
When corrupt oil barons fund Super PACs to elect sycophantic politicians, this is the result. Well-groomed "manboys" and "girlygirls" are paid by taxpayers. But once they are in the House and Senate, they serve the will of billionaire oil barons, and disseminate lying fat bully Trump's falsehoods.
He was spectacular. I love watching him in that committee. He doesn't hold back, and he doesn't let them get away with anything. Ol' Dougie B tried to put up a fight today, but the Dems didn't let him.
quick and snappy is what has to be done to counter these propagandists, who KNOW that they’re wrong, and are being paid to spew soundbites.
…magat reasoning at work… I’d like to hear him explain ‘round the world travel - since the earth is flat and all…😵💫🥵
. Firstly, solar power is active during PEAK DEMAND, exactly when it is needed! Secondly, wind power blows most of the time at 400' elevation where the turbine blades reside, thus that fills in the need at night. Solar and Wind make a great balance.
Dumb Ass
Bought and paid for by the oil and gas lobby.
Not to mention the fact that network load plummets at night, considering that the extreme amount of power use is for commercial purposes, which only occur during the day. Battery assisted solar is an extremely effective power production method.
The best of the best!!! LOLOLOLOLOL
When you're run by pedophiles.
Also, the leading source of off grid power in Alaska, where the sun doesn't really shine for half of the year!
The un-smart crew shows their lack of basic knowledge again.
I don’t think that really happened but it would have been quite apropos.
Stupidity should really hurt 🤦🏽♀️
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Greed must make people stupid.
DUH!!🙄
Dougie Burgum - in thrall to oil/gas/coal - he's not stupid - just highly paid by various lobby groups. And since Drumpfy hates windmills because they ruined his view in Scotland, Dougie is happy to kiss his ass. $2 billion to French company to NOT build windmills. Our Money. FFS.
Izzee a hopeless fool or duzzee just play one on TV?
but but but BUUUUUT, the secretary fellow is *technically* right; solar panels don't produce electricity once the sun goes beddy-bye. If he meant that there will be no post-sun-beddy-bye *supply* of electricity, he's a confounded moron, as the congressperson rightly implied so very subtly!
Buuuuurrrrnnnn!
Burgum has all of the nuanced reasoning of a petrified log.
Dem Jared Huffman, Congressman from CA, take a look. He's worth listening to and I love his snark.
Doug the dinosaur is clueless. Or simply wants to keep prices higher than they need to be. Another MAGA politician that is exploiting citizens and bad for climate change.
This new season of Parks and Rec cuts deep
IMHO, Engineers should not try to write LEGISLATION ... POLITICIAN/MBAs should not try to design power grids ... Why is this hard for MAGA to understand ?
Burgum deserves a swipe. Sell out.
People who oppose solar energy need to be removed from power.
So the Trump administration continues to parade its intelligence in front of America and the world! Its supporters don’t know see the dimwittedness which is (with the help of the past-its-time electoral college) why this country is a continuing catastrophe.
How else will the MAGA billionaires make money trashing our earth? Who cares if most of us can’t afford electric charges?
LOVE IT!!👍👍!! BURGUM IS THICK!! LOL!!LOL!!
I'd like to enter into the record that the word "battery" in the sense of "electrical storage device" was coined by Benjamin Franklin.
Trumpland is still living in thre past. Trump is in China a nation that is embracing 21st century technology that Trump doesn't believe in.
And batteries wear out. Solar has its place, but it has problems. Case in point, I started out with a solar charger horse fence that went out because things wear out. Horses got out. Now, I use no-climb horse fence and the solar charger is just for the electric ribbon at the top of the fence.
I didn't realize I wasn't following Huffman yet, and I made sure I was. THIS is just another example of the ineptness of the Epstein Regime. (Don't you KNOW they hate it when we call them that? 🥰)
I'm happy that Jared Huffman is my House Representative. He's also one of the only avowed secular humanists in a government chock full of god botherers.
I hope he really said that. Burgum is a first class idiot. The damage he and his dogeshits have done to Interior is criminal. They should go to prison for it.
Just too funny
Even if you didn't use a battery, you could offset the other forms of electric generation during the times the sun is visible in the sky.
The Secretary isn’t that stupid, but the people his regime is speaking to sure are.
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The industry is "Electric Storage Systems." The "batteries" are a LOT bigger than anything we think of as a "battery." It's a growing field, and the leading companies are ... wait for it ...... located in China and Korea. They're companies like CATL, BYD, and LG Energy.
Remember R-Jim Imhofe bring the snowball into Congress to prove global warming was a hoax! Rapeuplicans are dumber than a rocks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a...
Kind of like not-having-witch-hunting panics in yer military, Republicans are trying to say since 1976, 'This stuff could never work,' while rest of the world's all like: What, it could never work like all this stuff works everywhere else?
I created an animation for Commonwealth Edison 20-some years ago, about a technology for storing excess energy as ice. It's a project called Northwind, it makes ice all night long, cold water being distributed through tunnels to buildings, so they don't need electricity for air conditioning.
A nation where many people not know how solar power works! autopostglobal.com/car-news-ind...
In 2019 we had 15 solar panels and a back up battery installed on our house, after getting it set up with the power company we cut our electric bill on half and what we don't use we sell back to the power company. We average about $50.00 a month, even with changing our electric car.
Zzziiing! Fucking idiot. He knows better but he’s speaking to the drove of MAGAts out there lapping up his oral defecation. Plus, the fact that he’s pleasing his incontinent, dementia, ridden, pedophile master-Trump.
GOP, unapologetically ignorant
This Morons Are Governing America cult is the reason China will surpass the USA
This is the meritocracy folks.
Normal batteries aren't very efficient, so what you want to do is what the Norwegians do and install a water battery. Basically use spare power to pump water up into a lake during the day, and overnight, let it come down and run some turbines. Much more efficient, and no rare earth metals required.
Stupid shit rolls down from the head pos to underlings dumb fucks
They need to get out more & meet real people. My house battery is full by 10 even in winter (UK). It ran my house in a 20hr power cut no trouble & surprise everything also works in the dark🤣. I can pull from the grid of course and export more than I import annually. Industry can adapt too I'm sure.
How is it possible that you get water in your house when it's not raining?
Oh snap!
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Ouch. Burgum needs some of his own chocolate chip cookies. STAT.
So embarrassing! These are the leaders chosen by the moron.
Almost like when you cannot get tap water if it is not raining...
things have been worse but they’ve never been stupider
They sure do have a keen grasp of the obvious.
The old joke about the man who built a rocket to go to the sun. Friends said you're nuts you'll burn up. His response was "Don't worry, I'm going at night." (the joke referenced a man of a certain nationality which I will not use).
With this logic, you would die if you stopped eating food for a minute.
And Japan figured out a way to recycle them. Yeah!
GOOD GOD, JIM! THEY'VE DISCOVERED BATTERIES!!!
Americans are so stupid.
I've watched that clip on CSPAN a dozen or so times. Never gets old. It's the embodiment of a mic drop moment.
So stupid!
Why do we let ignorant people anywhere near power? 4 years ago www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05...
Trump admin clowns, hired more for the clownish talents than any intelligence, knowledge etc.
Also add green hydrogen generation and pumped storage hydroelectric power stations to the mix. 👍
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This has been explained before to members of his cult. They seem to have a problem with retaining that information.
Batteries don’t work in North Dakota…it’s too cold…
If you don’t put coal, gas or uranium in a power plant guess what the output is.
Congress member could have also asked if the sec had a cell phone with him and if so, was it connected to a wall power cord…. “It’s not?”….. “then how on earth is it operating?”
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Crikey, he even looks super stupid.
Why is this being presented as some kind of "gotcha?" Batteries don't address the point at all.
Only wish he’d said “It’s called a ’battery’” and used actual air quotes with his fingers.
Trump is going to have fun in China this week. Begging for help and commerce for your oil addiction from a country that is now in the business of selling renewables and EV's. Why on Earth would they intervene in the Iran conflict?
Burgum was the governor of North Dakota. North Dakota powers 36% of its energy production from green energy, mostly wind power. WTF is he talking about?
What does this guy think is going to happen when we run out of oil?
They think we're really that stupid.
And this idjit is just one of the hundreds of equally unqualified Trump appointees currently running our country. 🤦🏽♀️
Batteries are woke bs created by the fake media to push their climate agenda. (/s)
And. He didn't need to use the term that describes what batteries do: store or. Use the term "transtemporality" of energy
Yes! Well done, Representative Huffman. 👏
Burgum's are the eyes of a man who sincerely doesn't understand mechanical things.
How is he living in the age or rechargeable everything and oh I can’t be arsed
This is all about messaging to the voters who dont understand some piece of technology and hate it just because the enemy team is in support of it. All for the benefit of mega corporate donors who would loose money if solar took over.
Thats what you get when you vote for stupid, ignorant people.
This is why we need: 1. a wave of millennials and Gen Z to run for Congress 2. a wave of boomers to retire from Congress
I was wondering why my EV runs even though it doesn't have solar panels. 🙄🤯
This isn’t stupidity. This is projection & gaslighting by Burgum, albeit clumsy, who’s running cover at the Convicted Felon’s bidding to trash green energy alternatives. This is all driven by Big Oil/Gas/Coal lobbies who are buying the Rapist off for favor.
Elon Musk is the top player in battery sales. Heard of him? He is with Donald in China right now.
We’re running out of oil reserves. The good news is the president spent $4 billion in taxpayer dollars to cancel offshore wind farm leases.