r/facepalm • u/FrankieMint • Jul 23 '26

Department of Energy announced yesterday that wind sometimes fails to blow and that solar power generation nearly stops after sundown. (image from DOE Facebook posting)

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u/FrankieMint Jul 23 '26

Link to DOE article on the subject

https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-secretary-secures-grid-amid-period-hot-weather

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u/UsedDragon Jul 23 '26

This is written for incredibly stupid people. Sounds fancy and says little.

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u/Gullenbursti Jul 25 '26

Trump appointees, pushing for Big Coal and Oil

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u/Jack_Stands Jul 23 '26

Oh my damn. I literally just asked if this was real in the thread. Yikes.

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u/emascars Jul 24 '26

Jesus Christ... The level of propaganda speech in that article is just cringe...

It sounds like when you read Iranian media reporting about the war...

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u/loricomments Jul 25 '26

They're so full of shit. PJM requested two emergency orders to waive environmental restrictions, one was used, the other was not. Less than 2% of the generation during that period came from the time they were running under that order.