{"id":140849,"date":"2025-09-13T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140849\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:21:18","slug":"energy-department-roasted-for-clean-energy-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140849\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Department Roasted For Clean Energy Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      As it turns out, that might not be the case. The Department of Energy&#8217;s X account recently put out a tweet with a link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/3779178\/chris-wright-backs-trump-argument-blaming-renewables-for-rising-electricity-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">article<\/a> in the Washington Examiner, a conservative news magazine, quoting Secretary Chris Wright on the &#8220;worthless&#8221; infrastructure for solar and wind energy.<\/p>\n<p>Wright&#8217;s remarks were partially in response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s ongoing attack on clean energy, specifically his comment that wind and solar power are &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-escalates-war-windmills-tariffs-2116489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY<\/a>.&#8221; The magazine wrote: &#8220;The secretary claimed that, without proper battery technology, wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially &#8216;worthless&#8217; when it is dark and when the wind isn\u2019t blowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it turns out, that might not be the case. The Department of Energy&#8217;s X account recently put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18258,49,48,295,66,780],"class_list":["post-140849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-bestofinternet-twitter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}