⚡️💬 MY THOUGHTS - Since the blackout that paralyzed all of Spain yesterday starting at 12:30 PM, no official explanation has yet been given by the Spanish electricity grid operator. This silence raises questions, especially in the face of such a serious event. Has it become too sensitive to admit that incidents like this might be linked to an all-green energy model — one imposed without real debate and presented as a miracle solution?

Flying over Spain, one can see vast fields of solar panels covering entire regions. Behind this attractive image of modern ecology lies a major vulnerability. This energy production is entirely dependent on weather conditions, making the power grid much more unstable and unable to reliably balance supply and demand on its own.

My theory is simple: publicly acknowledging that this energy model creates a risk of massive blackouts would be a political failure. It would call into question the entire narrative surrounding the European Green Deal and the push for rapid energy transitions. To avoid opening that debate, some might prefer to delay or withhold clear explanations from the public.

But if this silence continues, it risks further eroding the already fragile trust between citizens and those making major energy decisions on their behalf.

What do you think? Are we witnessing the first visible consequences of a rushed, ideology-driven energy transition? I’m genuinely curious to hear your thoughts — I’ve met a lot of sharp minds on Nostr.

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Yes, but ultimately they will fail

October the date is near

October ?

Ah yes digital euro

Yes, I believe we are witnessing the first visible consequences of a rushed, ideology-driven energy transition.

I will learn from this and take action to ensure that I am prepared for extended duration power outages.

I think you are right.

Frightening, too, as all I see driving around the midwest US are windmills put up in the last 20 years, now solar farms going up faster than Dollar Generals, with hydrogen on the horizon.

It's exactly the same in Europe. Thanks for your feedback nostr:npub1y83pmc9f03kp0636gnwaaqaana2xjp3lcyx6n9mxn9gwp8l5052s3vdaxk

Interesting thoughts...

We know that when it happened, Spain was exporting gigawatts of energy to the rest of Europe. The issue, therefore, was not "not enough electricity," which makes the blackout harder to grasp (at least for me). But since the grid needs to be balanced, even too much power can cause trouble.

I do agree with you that the lack of information we have on the matter is alarming and suspicious. Our grid is running at the limits of its capacity and is very fragile, and the instability of wind and solar sources is definitely not making things better

Large spinning turbines would steady the electricity w inertia

Not necessarily, what would you do with it if you have suddenly extra gigawatts of energy in the grid?

I honestly think that the problem was not created by too little energy, but too much energy, something the grid historically did not expect to be happening or at least not on this scale.

I love to see it. The beatings will continue until retardation improves

You are completely right.

Furthermore the real cost of this is hidden in intransparent government spending and not reflected in the price for solar energy.

For example: Germany pays other countries to take their solar energy in peak times to then buy nuclear energy after the sun sets. It's completely crazy.

Fun Fact: Germany ex economic minister from the green socialist party, who is a child book author too has already written a child book explaining how romantic and good for the society blackouts can be.

"Interesting take! While storytelling can offer unique perspectives, I wonder how children might feel about the realities of blackouts. There’s certainly a balance to strike between imagination and practicality! 🌍✨ #ChildrensLiterature #RealityCheck"

I mean when someone needs a blackout to get in touch with their kids and family... It speaks more about them.

I am thankful my son only needs some light, a paper and a pen to draw his Manga characters and I don't need a blackout to stay in touch with him.

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We got your back. 🤙

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Should have run Monero instead. It is what the attackers have chosen to be paid that day.

Try to guess why.

Cry me a river

You're the one crying. 🤙

Yeah

My country doesn't have income tax. 🤙

Sure thing buddy 👍

I believe it was either a major failure of a key gas, coal or hydroelectric plant, or it was an overload possibly from wind or solar interruption or a simple increase in demand. I don't think it was an EMP or CME, as this wouldn't have caused a sag in the frequency leading up to failure. In regard to green energy, I believe it is highly unlikely this to be the cause unless their grid is grossly mismanaged and lacking basic safety equipment. The fact that they are able to bring power back to some areas and not others indicates the underlying problem is either a loss of baseload generation, a failure or lack of over generation loads, or a failure of a key distribution station.

it was normal level solar wind breaching a weak point in the earth's weakening magnetic field

this is going to happen more and more in the coming decade, there are dozens of examples of signs of magnetic fields changing on jupiter, saturn, on io, biggest volcano ever seen, mars, venus, mercury, pluto, neptune, all of them are behaving differently than they did before the last 5 years or so

This is EXACTLY why we run 3 full #Bitcoin / #BTC nodes in 3 different countries. 💁‍♂️

We got your back. 🤙

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Energy is for sure an interesting subject.

Our "needs" just increase with time.

No energy is completely clean (or just one, the one human can produce by itself).

- Charcoal is bad for the air / athmosphere

- Wood is less bad but it is quite the same than charcoal

- Nuclear is a concern with rubbish after "combustion" and need a heavy maintenance

- Wind turbines pollute landscape, make noise, produce irregular energy and unused energy, and need maintenance

- Solar pollute landscape, produce irregular energy and unused energy, and have limited lifetime (and need a surface cleaning)

- Hydroelectric cannot be product everywhere and need a lot of surface space, with some maintenance too of the dam.

- Geothermal energy is really interesting but can't be extract everywhere and need a heavy maintenance because of very high temperatures.

There is really no "no-cost" energy. So we have to deal with advantages and issues of each ones.

I think renewable energy are future, if we find a clever way to stock the energy which is produce only for an unexpected time and unexpected duration.

I read some interesting news about this (and it is just some examples) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Station

https://polarnightenergy.com/sand-battery/

Aside that we will need to decentralize production and consumption of energy, like #nostr relay. To avoid big blackout. and be more resilient to any problem / attack.

We need to keep each energy production in different percentage, because if we have bad year for sun or wind, we need to have alternative to that.

Some scientists are waiting for the cleanest energy like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion

but i don't think it will solve all the problems, and it is not ready yet and will not be soon.

Globally like any other subject, concentrate and focus on only one energy is really less resilient than multiply source of energy.

In time of peace and favorable climate, each country have built a big energy network based on interconnection between country.

But nowadays they need to adapt the model to new problem that have appear, and decentralize the schema.

For the other point, you have mention : "one imposed without real debate and presented as a miracle solution? " it is not a specific energy problem.

We have elected leaders (for the democratic countries), and it is their job to do the best for the country. If they failed, they should be punished. and people should be more involved in big decisions too. But as i said, it is another point, not only an energy problem.

Thanks for your note.

Spain was sunny AF yesterday though so

Need spinning turbines to stabilise the grid. Otherwise the harmonics get out of sync and trip

Oh yeah they have wind

It's clearly a hacker attack! Probably the mind of this operation still comes from those who threw down the twin towers. To good connoisseur a few words 🤷‍♂️

On that day Monero went historically up in the morning and Iberia went historically down a few hours later.

Just someone casually paying +300 million euros to someone else and a blackout shortly after.

Did someone mentioned that this exact attack vector had been published some 4 months ago?

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-blinkencity-radio-controlling-street-lamps-and-power-plants

Even funnier is the EU representatives mentioning being too early to know what happened and on the same speech saying it wasn't a cyber attack.

Nahh.. I'm sure these are all just terrible coincidences.