Posted on 04/29/2025 5:03:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Maybe they need some hand cranks on those elevators.
I think so.
Thanks for posting - first thing that came to my mind with this blackout was Manhattan Contrarian. Now I’ll read it.
Strangely the authorities in each country tell us unexplained atmospheric issues are causing the blackouts; it has nothing to do with the inherit instability of renewal energy generation.
Let’s wait and see if there are any blackouts in Geneva and Davos.
Probably a bummer to pull into a charging station and not be able to charge an EV.
” are connected directly to the grid via heavy spinning machines”
Now that there is some technical sh*t.
...or gas up the ice powered rig because the gas station is without electricity.
The sheep are afraid of the dark and when the sheep are afraid they will do anything the overlords tell them to do.
Many of us knew times like this were coming and now they are here. These blackouts and power failures are not a fault, they are a feature, a preview of coming events.
Here’s the real point. An interruption in power to the civilian world is an irritating inconvenience. To the commercial world it’s MONEY. A primary driver of whether to locate a company in a particular area is the availability and state of the infrastructure. Plants would be sprouting in Africa and India like mushrooms if they had reliable infrastructure. Turn off the power to a plant for an hour and the owner of that plant can tell you the direct and first order indirect costs to the dollar. (There are many more second and third order indirect costs also.) Make the power delivery unreliable and pretty soon the plant owner will relocate to somewhere with reliable infrastructure.
YES
Of course, it would be a bummer to pull into a gas station and the electricity powered gas pumps are dead..
Perhaps "unexplained atmospheric issues" is the left's way of saying that solar and wind power varies based on the weather. Which everyone with sense knows.
This is one of the reasons my wife and I have both a BEV car (BEV = fully electric EV, not a hybrid) and a gas pickup. That way not all of our transportation eggs are in one basket.
Because we live in the south where we get lots of sun, we have tons of decentralized solar ("decentralized" means that I manage it for my use, not some bureaucrat managing solar farms for the grid). I can't produce my own gasoline for my gas truck, nor can I produce natural gas for the home. But I can produce my own power for my EV and my home. We do most of our driving in the EV so that we're less dependent on the over-regulated energy market. And if we want to take a long trip, we can pick which car is best (i.e. few fast chargers or threat of power blackouts take the gas pickup, or sky high gas prices or every now and then gas shortage then take the EV).
This kind of plan doesn't work for everybody. There's plenty of research to do on if your driving habits and energy consumption habits and climate fit to make this kind of system feasible. But if you're one of the ones that can pull this off feasibly, it's a nice place to be in to not have to worry about the left's global warmageddon cult energy policies keep changing and making energy more expensive and less dependable.
So they said they are 100% renewable, but were depending upon the EU grid for grid stability? LOL morons, welcome to the Hotel California.
Spain has one of Europe’s highest proportions of renewable energy, providing about 56pc of the nation’s electricity.
So when the “oscillation” occurred, what is going to keep the grid steady on its 50 Hz frequency
Sounds like the are in need of multi capacitor stabilizing system?.
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