As Daniel Halper noted earlier today, ex-Energy Secretary Steven Chu raises a lot of eyebrows in his recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, where his defense of the department’s loan guarantee program refuses to concede any lessons learned from the Solyndra fiasco.

But that is not the only comment that seems blissfully unaware of history. Arguing that electric utilities need to seek their fortunes in solar power and battery technology, he offers a surprising new vision of the energy industry: