For those keeping score at home:

April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

Spain launched an experiment on April 16th to generate all power for the entire Iberian Peninsula only through renawble energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro.

Today, their power grid collapsed leaving Spain, Portugal and France with the largest blackout ever.

Spain’s reliance on wind puts the grid at risk. Especially when the wind stops blowing.

Renewables don't risk blackouts, said the media. But they did and they do. The physics are simple. And now, as blackouts in Spain strand people in elevators, jam traffic, and ground flights, it's clear that too little "inertia" due to excess solar resulted in system collapse.

These folks should have ridden their bicycles instead ....

TPTB are going to have us on hamster wheels soon.

Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity

Could there be a connection?

We may never know. 🤡

If you do stupid shit, you get stupid prizes.

I’m shocked!

And now for an old, yet always relevant joke.

“At this point, there are no indications of any cyberattack,” António Costa, the president of the European Council, wrote on X”

WHOOPS!!!! Seems like someone wandered off the reservation. But don’t worry, the Neocons will get him to ‘correct himself’ and blame Russia. After all, why the hell not!

“The massive blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula in the dark on Monday appears to have been sparked by the unexplained disappearance 15 gigawatts of power from Spain’s electricity grid.”

It’s called a CLOUD.

How much money did Spain pay for the privilege of going back to the 18th century? I’m sure it was quite a lot.

“The massive blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula in the dark on Monday appears to have been sparked by the unexplained disappearance 15 gigawatts of power from Spain’s electricity grid.”

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Great Scott!

“That wave, as it turns out, involves begging Morocco for an electricity bailout and living like cave people, without even access to their own money.

It will be even more fun when ALL of their money is electronic, as in Central Bank Digital Currency. Then the Spaniards might get to know their ‘new arrivals’ a bit more ‘intimately’ than they thought they were voting for.

To be fair, this blackout might not be caused by Russia. It could instead be caused by Climate Change and/or White Privilege.

Someone should contact Al Gore and Barack Obama for the definitive answer.

HAVE FUN CANADA! Alberta and Saskatchewan, tou need to leave.

Are you on the right thread?

The SO Superior Euros seem to have a power supply problem.
Have they tried turning it off then turning it on again?

A number of theories are floating about.

I suspect it was flux in the system not planned or engineered for as output varied rapidly.

Almost certainly they did not provide for a buffering or storage capacity *because* the end goal is to accustom the people to a new normal where sometimes you can do modern things and sometimes the power’s just out.

“Off-grid” setups feature controllers that power energy storage (in these little house deals, batteries) which in turn are drawn from when you want energy. You don’t hook up the solar or wind straight to your house breakers.

By hooking everything up directly a rapid shift in output could very well overwhelm a system, after which failover circuits would cascade the failure over a large area.

tl;dr my theory is not “solar and wind bad” but “solar and wind variable, and not engineering for shifts in output bad.”