It's time to come to grips with reality. 100% renewable grids are unreliable and outright dangerous for populations leveraging them.
The abundant energy future is here if we're willing to take it. We just need to ignore the climate hysterics.
https://www.tftc.io/its-time-to-get-serious-about-baseload-energy/
Relying on solar energy whilst also trying to reduce the amount of sunlight with geoengineering. Interesting tactic.
Variance killed more than its handful of good ideas. The sad part is we’ve been sitting on the solution the whole time with nuclear power.
One thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough is kW/acre. How much wildland are we willing to level for solar panels and windmills?
I've seen centennial forests being destroy to lay down solar panels (in areas where the sun doesn't shine much in the winter)
Greenwashing and perverse incentives account for this....
Nuclear should be an easy option.
But as always, confuse and scare the population about something they don't really understand and you get the unknowledgeable mob behind you.
Fix your own fucking roads and produce your own fucking energy. Nuclear is how energy scales to masses, But I am not the masses. Only people coming from a government reliance will give a shit about this opinion.
I don't think the Iberian peninsula issues were due to renewable energy, but you're right overall.
The only applications for solar should be small scale (eg off grid homesteads- on roofs or other structures)
The larger power entities should be looking at thorium reactors like the Chinese have
From the bits and pieces I've read it almost seems like there was too much power and then something went out of wack. Most people were thinking that a sudden drop of renewable power would be the problem... Like you stated this doesn't seem to be the case here.
Did you see anything about openings in the ionosphere that allowed solar flares to induce currents in the magnetosphere that can impact the grid? I think they call them geomagnetically induced currents
I would have to defer to the Suspicious Observer YouTube guy. I haven't had a chance to watch to any of his recent videos to see what he says about it
China may be looking at thorium, not they've also added more renewable capacity (mostly solar/wind) in 2024 than the US has in is entire history. China is well underway to a mostly renewable grid and even globally, renewable capacity is still growing exponentially
Thorium reactors on the other hand hardly exist yet, let alone at scale
Sadly it’s next to impossible to have a nuanced debate about energy in Germany. It’s so polarized that you just don’t want to bring it up anymore. I’ve also seen next to zero mention from European policymakers of using bitcoin mining to stabilize grids. Hopefully we’ll see a deeper analysis soon.
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The fact that Spain bragged about having a day's powerneed filled with only renewable energysources on 24. April 2025 and some days later a massive blackout hit could just be a coincidence.
Das ist echt ein guter Artikel über erneuerbare Energien im allgemeinen und die Situation auf der iberischen Halbinsel.
