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The sun is shining 24/7 somewhere on planet.

Someone should show this guy a Battery.

“But only when the sun is shining”. Like they don’t have battery storage, wind power in China. I know where the sun doesn’t shine. The same orifice he’s talking from.

Corporations who Trump and Republicans want to please. Trump needs them to like him. Hes pathological like that. Solars pannels bank energy thats sold to the grid. In 3 spring summer months you can bank enough energy that will fuel your house and cars. Excess is sold by us for profit.

Republicans are endowed to corporations Hence why you cant have national healthcare and must pay for profit controlling wherrbyou can go private equity insurance.

Republicans follow this playbook from the 1980s it covers coal plants. This book said being pro life was a win.

The Administration is destroying this country... On purpose.

Burgum can stick his BS where the sun don't shine. Sorry, it was just sitting there for the taking......

Burgum is an imbecile.

Burgum should be working on the department of the interior of his empty head.

So wrapped around the Sun shining bs. Solar works during cloudy days too and there are these amazing things called batteries. Not to mention, if we double down with wind farms!?!

Burgum should be absolutely embarrassed of himself, counting on America conflating renewables with just solar. China is the global leader in wind energy. Development & manufacturing. Dividing energy into “intermittent load” and “base load” is so archaic. What does your BESS network look like?

“Only when the sun is shining”? So… they never heard of batteries??? What an idiot.

Burgum & vampires can't tolerate sunshine.

Cmon, that had to be AI. No one is that stupid.

and OIL only ships when the Strait is open and REFINIERIES are not blown to bits!!!

My god, they are all stupid people. They have no idea how anything works and definitely not how the real world works. I can see why Mr Piggy has surrounded himself with stupid rich people, he feels right at home. Mr Piggy is it embarrassment on The evolutionary scale

This guy went to Stanford.

It’s fucking insane that these people have decided to kill an entire portion of the domestic energy market and the media just kinda shrugs and repeats the rapist’s lies.

Sigh. Obligatory "watts aren't energy" post. While the power vs energy thing isn't that big of a deal, it kinda sucks that people who make technology policy ... don't understand technology.

Only when the sun is shining? He should have been laughed out of the room.

Min is absolutely fabulous! Comedic genius. He made my morning.

Could have sent this home with some graphics for those that are dependent on MAGA Math. But 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 MORE OF THIS!

A cabinet of absolute clowns, that is what we have under this administration.

UAE’s Al Dhafra complex, which uses 5.2 gigawatts of solar PV, combined with 19 GWh of battery storage. It delivers a “firm” 1 GW of clean electricity for the cost of about USD$70/MWh.

Someone should just hand this guy a pack of batteries.

The other factor US politicians never talk about: China has 3x as many people as America. More engineers. More skilled labour. More architects. More construction workers. More local customers for new tech.

Too bad no economist ever predicted what would happen when you privatize everything and "manage" public infrastructure on a "quarterly numbers" basis instead of planning for growth and resilience. 🤬

he can't get his head around new (to him) ideas, can he? That's a REALLY bad trait in anyone aspiring to be a leader, at any level.

He’d be the person saying to send a ship to the sun at night

Should move to strike his answers as too fucking stupid to appear in print.

Solar panels - batteries or no - would not work where Burgum’s head is, as it is where the sun don’t shine.

The reason Bergum is deliberately NOT talking about battery technology is because China is increasing solar hours literally EVERY generation of battery production, and is about to kick our entire fossil fuels ass. They have freighters that can make the entire Pacific on battery life now.

trump regime members just can't accept that China is kicking america's ass...

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

Facts are so pesky....

why must we pretend that batteries don’t exist? this is all so stupid

I’ll be the USA absolutely SCHOOLED and DOMINATED China on Coal usage. 🤣🙄🙄🙄

Your "economically illiterate strategy" ... love it!

And China is building Cuban power too!

But he is able to both renew and store his cluelessness.

It’s just amazing how much Trump damaged this country, when he assigns unqualified sycophants into cabinet positions. China is so far ahead; I’m not sure that the US will be able to catch up. STUPID Americans who REFUSED to see Trump’s incompetence, they are all to blamed for our country’s demise!

Burgum is a complete moron.

it’s been almost 15 months since the real sun has shone on the USA …so he’s got a point that world sees the USA in a very dark phase

This Biggie, too! Every person should be asked.

Every last one of the dildo's knows what a battery is.

Replace the cringe “What is a woman” with “What is a battery?”

No, they should throw them under the bus with this www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/27/w...

Better yet, just ask, how does your laptop work when it is not plugged into a power source. Or even better yet, how about your phone. 🤔

Only when the sun is shining? Who voted for the guy who has never heard of batteries?

You’re harming our National Security

These morons will come up with any excuse to belittle renewables and pretend they can't work, meanwhile they tell us we simply MUST pump billions of tons of pollution into our air every day, like there isn't another way

Right?

He said, "I'm asian, good at math, but you can look that up" BAHAHAHAHAHA. Got this fucker good with that one. I love seeing the sarcasm and disdain for these clowns.

The entire trump regime is a national security risk.

China's new energy installation last year, when adjusted for capacityfactor was about the same as its coal installation.

Will no one just spend all of their allotted time asking/telling these morons about batteries so we don’t have to continue to hear the preposterous crap about “solar doesn’t work if the sun’s not shining”? What a bunch of idiots.

Looks like they found a real first-class dunce in Burgum

Playing dumb doesn't work as well at a Congressional hearing as it does on Fox.

„Only when the sun is shining“… I wonder if they’re also afraid the sun might not rise again tomorrow morning, like (allegedly) the Aztecs. If this goes on long enough, they‘ll soon want to burn witches again. Same mindset. They seem to be mentally stuck in like the 17th century.

Be careful with those numbers. I expect that is capacity, not output. But no matter how you slice it, China is about to eat America's lunch.

I’m glad these things get called out on the record BUT The GOAL is to harm national security - and steal from the US Treasury. They are the very definition of traitors and deserve appropriate punishment to set an example.

Burgum's comments are meant to convey: 1) loyalty and adherence to party line (ring-kissing and show of strength) 2) cultural values aligned with ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and disdain for expertise 3) owning the libs Fighting back with facts accomplishes nothing. Mock them!!

Republicans haven’t figured out yet that energy from the Sun can be stored in this new device called a “Battery” to be able to be used when the Sun is put away at nighttime.

"But only when the wind is blowing and sun is shining". Guess it was shining and blowing annually?

This dipshit thinks the earth is flat. Or he thinks the sun never sets in China.

"But only when the sun is shining" They say that because that's what the dear leader believes. It's a "look at me Daddy, I'm twirling" attention seeking move.

This is a cabinet member trying to explain to Congress the existence of night time.

Dying lies of a dying industry. China will and should destroy the oil industry. The Earth will be better off without oil men.

His bank account doesn’t get filled when the oil isn’t flowing. Here I fixed it.

Republicans want you to recharge your electric cars batteries with gas generators.

Good god , he’s such a FUKIN DUNCE

Dave Min is hammering him!

My God...he knows! He just gets his bread buttered on both sides by oil & gas lobbyists. With this regime of bullies for billionaires, always F O L L O W the money.

No coal required during day. When solar panels generate electricity, they directly displace the need to burn fossil fuels—primarily coal and natural gas—on the electric grid. ... and we save that much fuel by not needing to burn it, and don't pollute as much.

Burgum is so badly informed it's laughable. The sun doesn't need to shine for solar to work. Only the darkness of night hampers generation and for that there are storage batteries. Trump has gone out of his way to hire the laziest most unqualified people to manage critical areas of government.

Coal plants are intermittent too. Turbines get shut down all the time. He’s just making things up.

For this reason alone, the USA will be a former superpower in 20 years and the PRC will be the planet’s most powerful state. You’re living in 1950, America. China is living in 2050.

& a shout out to Ewin Tang too!

Throwing their prejudices at them. I’ll bet they didn’t even notice.

Burgum is a living case study on why qualifications matter.

Burgum must be an idiot. Is he unaware of batteries?

Burgum is an idiot and/or a liar who thinks we are all idiots.

They think we are idiots, like the solar panel is directly connected to your toaster. No sun, no toast. Is the oil rig connected directly to your TV? No pumping, no TV?

How the hell does someone who thinks that solar energy stops working at night even have this job?

Solar and wind are very egalitarian. Especially as the equipment gets more efficient and smaller, everyone can have their own supply. That's the real reason folks like Burghum hate these sources. They can't control and profit from them.

Only when the Strait is open, I guess

Are you kidding me? This guy is the female MTG when it comes to solar.

"Economically illiterate." BURN

Um...Duh...Uh...How come you are asking me questions when I don't know sh*t about what you're asking? #Unqualified

"Can I have a yes/no answer"? "Uh, Duh". "I reclaim my time".

Wonder if he knows what GW means?

Funny how trumps meddling in the global economy is not going to result in American steel, coal, or oil being a powerhouse, rather he will force the global economy towards green energy.

Unserious people for serious times. Cool.

BATTERIES Dumbass!!!!!

Even IF batteries didn't exist so that solar energy could ONLY be used in the daytime, that's still approximately half the time AND well more than half of "high usage hours" so it'd still make sense to build solar.

Trump is paying to cancel renewable projects, cause he promised to revive coal and push oil.

Incompetent idiot

The faster a country uses up their oil the sooner they have to go elsewhere to get it. They all know it but this is the only period of time they can profit from it. The future generations be damned.

Trump has cut off green energy sources which cost less to produce electricity than oil and gas.

They`re seriously pushing this narrative that solar doesn`t work at nighttime. They also seriously think we`re that stupid.

If only anyone could figure out how to store energy generated at one moment in time for use at another moment in time. They could call it something like a "battery."

“Only when the sun is shining” JFC basic science falls through their Swiss-cheese MAGA rotted brains

BURGAM = another MAGA bent mouther

ME: Does China turn off at night?

i’m Asian, so I’m good at math” I fucking love this

Why even bring these people to these hearings? They lie and don't care and nothing will happen regardless

This “only when the sun shines” argument is getting tedious.

Bravo to Rep. Min.

LUDDITES Q3 2025, China’s green tech exports — including solar panels, wind turbines, energy storage systems, and EV components — reached $14.8 billion, up 30% from the same period in 2024

He didn’t even say “solar”, he said “renewable”. These people are like actual cartoons.

Or wind or diverse supplies. Smh such a-holes.