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Chris Wright: “If all of the solar was zeroed out tomorrow, the world would…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Chris & Liz Wright on Iran, Solar, Nuclear, & Card Counting | KMP Ep.34

Published | Video Starts at 11:57

If you wiped all the solar panels off the planet tomorrow, like no one would notice. We're losing 10% of sort of global oil production today. It is a massive crisis. If all of the solar was zeroed out tomorrow, the world would lose 1.2% of energy. But it's energy that's not dispatchable, it's not reliable, like no one would notice. It wouldn't even be a hiccup. So where are you then on orbital data centers and powering them via solar in outer space? (11:57–12:04)

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Asserts that eliminating solar energy would result in a 1.2% loss of global energy.

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