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Chris Wright: “The Globe has spent $10 trillion on wind, solar batteries…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 10:43

But it has gotten so ridiculously out of whack that we've delivered policies that have just driven up energy, driven de industrialization, and made our countries geopolitically weaker. To give a few numbers on that, The Globe has spent $10 trillion on wind, solar batteries and transmission lines. to connect low energy, dense remote energy sources. $10 trillion. And the last full year of data is available, that $10 trillion got a 2.6% of global energy, 1.2% from solar, 1.4% from wind. (10:43–10:52)

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