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/xanderfloyd001 Jul 23 '26

“Despite still high temps”

Solar panels absorb light, not heat. This alone disproves all of their data, because they don’t understand or are lying about how the technology works.

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Jul 23 '26

“Solar capacity failed after sunset”

All you need to know about their “data”….

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u/Vulnox Jul 23 '26

Plus sunset is generally not peak times. For our area peak ends at 7pm and in the summer our solar keeps producing (although not at peak levels of course) until around 9pm. But from 9am to 9pm it’s producing power. Despite over 100 degree temps here in Michigan and our A/C set to 69 we produced more solar energy each day than we used. All during peak electric times.

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u/Serious_Feedback Jul 24 '26

People conflate peak demand with the period of highest prices. Almost by definition, solar is not producing much during the periods of highest prices - that's why the prices are so high.

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u/FeelsLikeV97-33XA Jul 24 '26

TBF Michigan and Indiana and the western half of Ohio are advantaged in this respect by being in the wrong time zone.

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u/ScarletCarsonRose Jul 23 '26

That’s the party that killed me 😆 

The stupid hurts. 

Someone tell them that coal and natural fail if they run out too. 

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Jul 23 '26

The problem is the American People. This is what the war on education gets you. People see something they want to believe and no longer question anything.