Wow.. I've heard some BS in my time, but this....

Don't worry too much about planet-warming emissions, the US Energy Secretary has told the BBC, because within five years AI will have enabled the harnessing of nuclear fusion – the energy that powers the sun and stars.

Chris Wright told the BBC in an interview that he expected the technology to deliver power to electricity grids around the world within eight to 15 years and that it would rapidly become a big driver of greenhouse gas reductions.

Mr Wright also defended the billions of dollars of cuts the Trump Administration has made to renewable energy subsidies. He said wind power has been subsidised for 33 years and solar for 25 years.

"Isn't that enough?" the Energy Secretary asked: "You've got to be able to walk on your own after 25 to 30 years of subsidies."

In that case, subsidies to fossil fuel companies should have ended in the 1950s...

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ElwoodBlues · M

Chris Wright is being deceptive if not outright lying.

For example, the tRump admin halted work of the almost complete Revolution Wind Farm. It received no federal subsidies.

Revolution Wind is located in federal waters 15 miles south of Rhode Island. Construction started in 2023, and the project has been slated to begin sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.

"Any pause or uncertainty at this stage could ripple across jobs, contracts, and communities already benefiting from the project," Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, a trade group whose members include wind project developers as well as oil and gas companies, said in a statement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-5513919/trump-stops-offshore-wind-renewable-energy

Earlier, tRump had halted Empire Wind. Although lawsuits eventually got the project re-started, the delay was very costly. tRump isn't cutting subsidies, he's piling on additional costs!!

Construction on Empire Wind resumed in May when the Trump administration lifted the stop-work order. But the disruption was costly for the project's developer, a Norwegian company called Equinor. The firm recently cut the value of its investment by almost $1 billion, mainly because of "the changes in regulations for future offshore wind projects in the U.S.," Torgrim Reitan, Equinor's chief financial officer, said on an earnings call in July.

wildland · M

@ElwoodBlues What really rankles me is not his fusion pie-in-the-sky assertions (I wish he was right, though) but that by complaining that renewables should be able to "stand on their own two feet now" he somehow seems to imply that coal, oil, and gas have not received a penny in subsidies ever.