By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-19 11:52:31 | Updated at 2025-01-19 15:25:15
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Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for public lands boss, questions reliability of renewable power
Associated Press ^ | 3:20 PM EST, January 16, 2025 | Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott and Jack Dura
Posted on 01/19/2025 3:13:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday the U.S. can leverage development of fossil fuels and other energy sources to promote world peace and voiced concerns about the reliability of renewable power sources promoted under the Biden administration.
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum described Trump’s aspiration to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” as a way to counter demand for fossil fuels from autocratic nations — Russia, Iran and Venezuela — that have fewer environmental safeguards.
Burgum also said the U.S. needs to make more “baseload” electricity from coal and other sources as it seeks to power data centers for the nation’s tech industry. If confirmed, Burgum would become the chief steward of federal lands. […]
The Republican’s security claims were challenged by Hawaii Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono who said military leaders have described global warming as a threat that could trigger instability and wars. …
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1 posted on 01/19/2025 3:13:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Hawaii Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono who said military leaders have described global warming as a threat that could trigger instability and wars. …
Military leaders take orders.
2 posted on 01/19/2025 3:16:36 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
3 posted on 01/19/2025 3:23:40 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Grid integration has always been the issue.
4 posted on 01/19/2025 3:24:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Olog-hai
>> [Doug Burgum] voiced concerns about the reliability of renewable power sources promoted under the Biden administration
Glad to hear this. From what little I know about him I was a bit concerned that he was “green on the inside”.
5 posted on 01/19/2025 3:26:38 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: Olog-hai
Should be interesting...Trump has always said....we need every form of energy.
6 posted on 01/19/2025 3:26:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
To: Olog-hai
“Burgum as governor outlined plans to make the state carbon neutral by 2030. And he touted a pipeline that would be used to capture and store greenhouse gases that fuel climate change. Burgum told lawmakers Thursday the U.S. has an opportunity to remove the carbon from burning fossil fuels while promoting new development.”
This is the globalist horror that he is in his position for.
Disgusting.
7 posted on 01/19/2025 3:29:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: Olog-hai
Of course its unreliable. That’s why backup systems are needed when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine.
8 posted on 01/19/2025 3:29:56 AM PST by plangent
To: plangent
Burgum can start by unlocking the extensive anthracite coal deposits in the Grande Escalante national monument lands locked up by Bill Clinton as a favor to the Indonesian Riady family
9 posted on 01/19/2025 3:33:02 AM PST by plangent
To: Libloather
At one time, it was basically assumed that Patty Murray was the least intelligent and most inflexible member of the US Senate. Mazie Hirono has Patty beat in spades.
Anthropogenic climate change, if any exists at all, is infinitesimal compared to what effects that natural climate change may have, and is largely self-cancelling. A small microclimate may exist in the immediate vicinity of extraordinarily intense heat production, but NONE of it comes from any effects of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is plant foot, and absolutely essential in the maintenance of the oxygen supply in the atmosphere.
Instability and wars are triggered by ideology, personal aggrandizement of egos, or desperate economic crises. Global warming isn’t even in the top 10,000 reasons.
But the myth of global warming is a powerful weapon in the hands of the willfully ignorant in their quest for power and/or influence.
10 posted on 01/19/2025 3:34:40 AM PST by alloysteel (This is yet another test. There are no right or wrong answers, only the correct response for you.)
To: mewzilla
True but grid stability is even bigger.
The grid has to be balanced, not too much energy and not too little.
If the power demands increase and the capacity is not there you cant simply make the sun brighter or speed up the wind to match the load. Then there is night time lol
11 posted on 01/19/2025 3:52:22 AM PST by blitz128
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