Don’t tell him about nightfall!
If only we had the technology to predict solar eclipses!
implementation which works 99.99% of the time
Republicans: “It’s broken and bad”
stand for nothing.
Wait until he discovery day and night.
Watts are a unit of power, not a unit of energy. The claim is nonsense to the core.
I have no idea about the actual number, but saying the power is decreased by 30 GW does make sense, though… Of course it is not energy, but they might not have meant “solar energy” in the sense of a physical quantity. The sentiment is bullshit of course.
But even then only for a few minutes at each solar energy plant
Sure. It is an effect that has been taken into account by government agencies and grid operators, though: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61743
The good thing is you can predict it extremely accurately, probably much better than cloud cover…