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Chris Wright: “Today the United States has about two minutes of total…”

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 07:51

Yeah, I often say I don't care where energy comes from as long as it's affordable, reliable, secure and you know, it betters the lives of the consumers of energy. Wouldn't batteries solve that problem? No, because Today the United States has about two minutes of total storage of all the batteries in cars and on our grid. We have two minutes of energy storage. And when you have peak demand times like fern, it's like a week long event. (07:51–07:59)

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Asserts that the U.S. has only two minutes of total energy storage capacity in batteries.

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