Trump’s energy department said that the wind and solar energy capacity was “worthless” without sun or wind. Elon Musk reminds us of batteries: “UM … Hello?”

The message echoes the recent remarks of the Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a long -standing framework for oil and gas, who defended Trump’s claim that renewable energies increase the costs of electricity, although he recognized that the photo was more complicated.

He also argued that the wind and solar energy are “intermittent” and, without large -scale batteries, “without value” when the sun does not shine or that the wind does not blow. A greater dependence on renewable energies, he added, effectively creates “a separate network” which increases the overall costs.

However, the X Post of the DOE has attracted millions of views and many mocking responses, including a community note reminding readers that there are batteries to store power when the sun does not shine or the wind does not blow.

Among the most important answers, there was Elon Musk, who crossed the noise with only two words: “UM … Hello?”

In addition to his response, Tesla’s CEO stimulated the large -scale battery activity of his company, which had recently praised a storage project of 370 megawatts in Australia designed to stabilize the network and extend renewable use. His post collected just over half a million views. Tesla also has a solar panel company to use in houses.

The Ministry of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

Several users also underlined the vast support of the musk campaign to the president last year despite the accent put by Tesla on green energy.

Musk spent nearly $ 300 million on Republican candidates during the last electoral cycle, approving Trump after surviving an assassination attempt. After being elected, Trump installed Musk to direct the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government (Doge,) and the two men seemed inseparable, with a musk writing in February that he loves Trump “as much as any hetero man can love another man”.

But the two also had clear ideological differences compared to the beginning, in particular around renewable energies. Musk directs one of the main global companies of electric vehicles and has long supported all kinds of renewable energies, including solar and wind energy.

The alliance collapsed in a very public breakdown earlier this year on the Big Beautiful Bill, which sparked a fierce opposition from Musk, because it ended the tax credits of the Biden era for renewable energies and should add to the American debt.

In a post X now deleted, Musk has increased the quarrel even more, accusing Trump of being named in Epstein files and blocking the output of more details. Since then, Musk has said that he would make “much less” political expenses in the future.

“I think I did enough,” he said in a video interview with Bloomberg News in Qatar Economic Forum.

Meanwhile, Trump’s administration has sought to paralyze clean energy, blocking nearly $ 19 billion in renewable energy projects and announcing that it will not approve of any wind or solar projects.

The president himself used various justifications for his anti-reversal position, claiming that wind turbines kill birds and are ugly, while he wrote in a social article of truth that solar panels are “destroying farmers”.

“The days of stupidity are ended in the United States !!!” Added Trump.

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