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Chris Wright: “We get that [high temperature process heat] only from…”

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

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 15:18

So we can make buildings and cars and planes and Internets and data centers. Almost half of energy is used to manufacture materials. And the key part of that energy is high temperature process heat. We get that [high temperature process heat] only from burning wood, oil, gas or coal. We could get that from nuclear energy. That reactor we carried in that plane yesterday was a high temperature, gas cooled reactor so that it can be used not just for electricity, but for process heat. (15:18–15:23)

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Asserts that high temperature process heat is currently obtained only from burning wood, oil, gas, or coal.

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