From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
From the Daily Mail:
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Spain‘s mega-blackout on the country’s overreliance on renewable energy.
The French President said the debate over the cause of the enormous power outage, which plunged Spain into darkness in April leaving five dead and millions without power, was ‘a false one’.
The disruption, which also impacted Portugal and southwestern France, left areas in total darkness for nearly a day, cutting internet and telephone connection, while hampering transport.
Mr Macron has now hit out at Spain’s reliance on renewable energies, claiming ‘no system can withstand such dependence’.
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Spain’s mega-blackout on the country’s overreliance on renewable energy
Spain was plunged into darkness in April leaving five dead and millions without power
He said: ‘The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support’
Full story here.
Gosh. A bit of cold, hard realism from the old enemy. This disaster in which people died unnecessarily was entirely anthropogenic – man made. Everybody knows why. French nuclear – and high inertia – saved the majority of France and that plain and simple fact hasn’t sunk in with the Spanish. It boggles the rational mind.
As people wait for answers about what caused the historic power cut
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Pedro Sánchez has rejected such criticism, asking for patience while the government investigates what caused the grid’s disconnection. He said that his government would not “deviate a single millimeter” from its energy transition plans. – MSN
The Spaniards seem every bit as mad as our Ed of Doncaster North (and leafy Islington). The blackout occurred in April 2025 and later at the COP in November 2025, had anything changed?
“Spain shows that the best way to grow is to reduce emissions”
During his participation in the round table dedicated to the energy transition, the president pointed out the need to continue to make progress in the deployment of clean energy. He highlighted Spain’s leadership in its roadmap for the expansion of renewable energies, which translates into greater competitiveness, certainty and security – La Moncloa
Sanchez obviously believes.
Anthropogenic Global Darkness.
They just need to accept a few million more Islamic “immigrants.” It’ll all work out, Inshallah.
Ratcliffe called it out – and held his line, sort of.
Colonised is the word.
I’d have used invasion. There’s no other word for illegal immigrants arriving on boats
Invasion begets colonisaton.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
The Spanish Blackout wasn’t disastrous enough to knock reality into Spanish heads.
If they continue down this road, there will come a time when it is disastrous enough.
Agreed. Been saying this for a few years mow. The politicians won’t wake up after one blackout – it will take probably three…..
Pedro Sanchez is a vile Communist, with no technical training and experience, who has the audacity and mendacity to deny expensive, dysfunctional wind and solar renewables are at fault for grid instabilities and blackouts.
He rose to the top by fraudulent elections.
He wants to legalize 500,000 impoverished, unskilled, Islamic boat people, from all over, and turn them into voters, so he stays elected forever.
In Washington DC, the Democrats are trying to do the same by opposing the show photo ID act and show proof of citizenship act, and enroll as many illegals as possible, bribing them with promises of free SNAP, free Medicaid, free rent, etc. A chicken in every pot.
Almost every country in the world, that has free elections, requires some form of voter ID.
If you have to collect an undelivered parcel from the Post Office you need ID….
If you attend the Democrat National Convention you need to show a photo ID.
If you want to attend a Maxine Waters “town hall”, have your ID ready.
Oh, just another Democrat then.
“Spain shows that the best way to grow is to reduce emissions”
Spain is growing?
In insanity? Yes.
Yes. Unaffordable unreliable Retardables are OK, as long as not too much. He kinda sorta almost gets it though, so it’s a start, I guess.
Is that the first time macron has said something sensible?
I think it is. And being a Rothschild banker, it’s more Trumpian than WEF. Sacre bleu.
Even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally. He’ll probably say something opposite next week.
Macron can afford to speak out because he has lots of nuclear reactors.
I wonder what he would say if France had gone the same direction as Germany? I suspect he would be much less critical of Spain under those circumstances.
And he is a short timer – He can speak the truth.
He was elected many years ago by promising to shut down 50% of nuclear capacity.
California is up next for a similar lesson to be learned the hard way. There are excited claims out there about solar energy now exceeding total electricity demand during parts of the day, which implies that the system balance depends on battery charging (and perhaps export) as a sink. This cannot end well.
I could be wrong. But I don’t think so.
I sometimes think alarmists have a real monopoly on being wrong.
Being wrong doesn’t concern them. They are concerned about image.
They are more important than the rest of us (so they say) thus maintaining the moral high ground matters.
It’s all about what they see in the mirror. Nothing of substance.
Dysfunctional California is the poster child of a basket case.
I would export California to Mexico and import Alberta from Canada in a New York Second.
How about a twofer… CA and MN for Alberta? Who could pass up a two for one trade?
Great idea.
The sooner, the better.
Story Tip
There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis – Mother Jones
The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as the world’s governments appear to have lost their appetite for tackling the emissions that are causing the warming.
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world with devastating consequences for people and nature,” says British global-systems researcher Tim Lenton, of the University of Exeter. If he and other scientists are right, then hopes currently being expressed of a temperature reset by reducing emissions after overshoot may be fanciful. Before we know it, there may be no way back.
The effects of imminent 1.5-degree overshoot are already apparent in a rising tide of weather catastrophes: soaring heatstroke deaths in India, Africa, and the Middle East; unprecedented wildfires in the United States; and escalating property damage and floods from tropical storms and extreme precipitation.
What a crock from Mother J.
How come it is still called Mother Jones? Going by its own values, should that not be
Birthing parent Jones
The Jones who menstruates
etc
True that.
Has Mother Jones looked at the temperatures lately? Obviously not.
The temperatures have cooled by 0.5C over the last two years.
Mother Jones is living in the past.
Hence the name!
Is that a re-print of the Guardian article that was well and thoroughly shredded here a few days ago?
I’ve never been to France, but I’ve seen enough videos of its countryside to realize it’s a beautiful nation so I suspect that the French people wouldn’t be happy covering the French countryside with thousands of wind turbines and vast acreages of solar panels- the way the Germans have done.
It is.
I‘ve driven from Calais and Dunkirk down to the alps and Italy and – aside from peage- it’s fantastic.
But don’t buy a drink in Courmayeur – it ain’t cheap.
A Dutch saying goes like this:
“France is a beautiful country, too bad it is inhabited by the French”
Certainly true… and spanish leftards blaim France for not having installed sufficient interconnectors. So whe hit shit the fan and Spain generated more pseudosubstainable rainbow power than their own grid could absorb they couldn’t export their problem northwards.
Next time you ecotards and sypnathizers blow up a conventional powerplant please do mankind a favour and sit on top of the explosive charge. May the blast go app yours where it belongs
Countries should be learning (learing?) that the closer they get to wind and solar self sufficiency the greater the chance of blackouts. Brownouts and electricity rationing should be their warning.
In hindsight, that blackout was pretty minor. One could expect more.
How did Macron come upon a rational thought?
I hope he won’t say the opposite the day after tomorrow — the “at the same time” approach is his specialty. Thankfully, we have civilian nuclear power to help us stand firm against this obsession with renewables. If the Marxist-leaning far left or the eco-left were to win in 2027 (I don’t think that’s possible, but you never know), then we’d really, truly be in deep trouble.
Good for Macron.
That also accounts for the relative silence from a biased and supportive press and politicos.
This is nothing extraordinary since Spain has been known for a number of years to import natural gas from North Africa to make up for the frequent renewable shortfalls. Nor is it alone in Europe and elsewhere since fossil fuel backups are commonly utilized when wind and solar can’t deliver, which is often. Yet the eco-nuts continue to insist those are the keys to saving the planet. Maybe they should start specifying which one they mean because it’s obviously not this one.
I.AM.SHOCKED!
Don’t like Macron much but when the man is right, he’s right.
Mon Dieu! Sacre Bleu! Le Grand Fromage has departed from the script! No doubt this will cause chaos in the French government and the president will have to step down. That’s almost unheard of!