If only we had the technology to predict solar eclipses!

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.

Meaning solar energy produces 30 gigawats per 2 minutes?

Not bad, should build even more.

and im sure the US loses even more grid production capacity when it's flooded due to the inevitable warming of the ocean too huh?

The US used over 3.6 million gigawatts hours of energy in 2020. If you round down, and assume no increase in the last 4 years, that's over 9800 per day. 30 is a drop in the bucket. We have combined cycle natural gas plants, along with other green options to pick up for dips in production exactly like this.

A better question is how much energy we gain from solar if losing it for a couple hours once a decade or so is such a big deal.

Perhaps someone should tell this dickhead about all of the land the US will lose due to carbon emissions from coal power. Or maybe mention the continuing increase in business insurance due to the same thing. If we are going to point out the adverse effects of solar we should point out the adverse affects of coal.

Watts are a unit of power, not a unit of energy. The claim is nonsense to the core.

Wind energy? Hydro energy? Nuclear energy? There's like more ways to get energy.

I also don't know if this guy is pointing out that the sun gives us so much energy, so we should use it more or that the sun could be covered sometimes rendering it useless.

I missed out on about 5kwh. Guess I'll start pulling the panels off the roof now.

the only solution is that we blow up the moon

implementation which works 99.99% of the time

Republicans: “It’s broken and bad”

stand for nothing.

30GW out of how much Daniel? We need some proper stats from Koch's mouthpiece.

https://moneytrails.org/issue/power-the-future/

*points to like 17 gas panics that have happened in my relatively short life.

I mean, does this person know what happens at NIGHT?

Best part here is that it's a nonsense statement. Generated electricity is measured in watt hours (be they kilowatt, megawatt, or gigawatt).

Flip the script around, and what this tells us is that within the very narrow path of totality, 30 gigawatts of solar power is produced within minutes. That's a decent amount of power, very quickly, for basically free. Plus all the other solar power still being produced outside the area in totality.

Gets even more ridiculous when you factor in all the solar power that will be produced within just that same path by time the next eclipse hits us in 20 years. If a couple minutes of losing sunlight is 30 gigawatts, 20 years of having sunlight is multiple millions of gigawatts produced. I think we can just scrape the lost 30 off the top of those millions and call it good.

His followers are the literal caveman pointing wojack.

"Number big!! Number big!!"

Wait till hears about night.

We've reached peak sun! It's all gone!!

Yes, Daniel, a few minutes of eclipse happening every couple years renders solar completely useless. Let's just keep burning the dead dinosaur juice.

Sigh… Same energy as the following:

We lost all that sunlight. Add this to the long list of reasons why “farming” food is unreliable.

The sun will consume the Earth in 5 billion years! WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN?????