Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“If you prevent countries from using the most reliable fuels for making the electricity that lights the lights, elevates the elevators, and powers all other powered things, what would be the likely consequence? Not, I think, to make the power grids more reliable. The power companies say they don’t know why almost all the power went out recently in Spain and Portugal and in other parts of Europe. No indication so far of cyberattack or other sabotage. Red Electrica, Spain’s state-run electricity network, points to a ‘very strong oscillation’ in the network causing the Spanish system to disconnect from the European system. Portugal’s grid operator says that the oscillations had to do with extreme temperature variations. Spain’s electrical network now relies almost entirely on ‘renewable’ sources of energy, ‘green’ energy, anything but fossil fuels.” (05/01/25)