The secretary of the interior Doug Burgum was testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee.
The Cabinet secretary, toeing the GOP line, told Huffman that solar arrays “produce zero electricity” after sundown.
“Mr. Chairman, I request unanimous consent to enter in the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of: It’s a battery,” the California Democrat replied. “China’s figured it out. That’s why they’re cleaning our clock on clean energy.”