The Fat Pipe
Here’s your fat pipe for April 29, 2025.
The First Renewable Blackout
Renewable suggests that something can be had over and over again; that it will be self-replicating. And so it seems that renewables are going to be the cause of repeated blackouts, as happened yesterday when all of Spain, Portugal and a few French border towns lost power:
Spanish grid operator added that it was “very likely” (“muy posible”) that the 1st event was solar generation. But also said it was lacking data to say it conclusively. https://t.co/5DVQQhMYIy
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) April 29, 2025
Peak Prosperity’s members were all over this right from the beginning.
https://tribe.peakprosperity.com/t/power-out-in-europe/44528
How it started:
Spain three years ago: https://t.co/LadZ6WdiVz
— Ada Lluch (@AdaLluch) April 28, 2025
How it went:
The Iberian Peninsula… wiped off the map of lights. This is how it looked from orbit last night after a massive blackout hit Spain and Portugal. Cosmic silence over the region.”#Blackout #IberianPeninsula #Spain #Portugal #PowerOutage #SatelliteView #EarthAtNight… pic.twitter.com/0HyA7tN8m0
— David Sobolewski (@dvsobo) April 29, 2025
What happened in Spain yesterday? On April 28, 2025, Spain witnessed a major energy event: a nationwide blackout.What was the cause? A massive overload of the electrical grid due to a huge spike in solar production.What happened?At around 11:00 AM, Spain’s solar power… pic.twitter.com/UTcSrJRc1T
— Cata Paul 🃏 (@CataPaul2) April 29, 2025
Why it happened?
Hear this out.The person in charge of the electric net in Spain was handpicked by the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.She has no experience or education at all in the energy sector.Her salary is 546,000€ per year, which is A LOT in Spain. This should be a crime.
— Ada Lluch (@AdaLluch) April 29, 2025
Who knew that maybe having someone with experience would be important in the role of overseeing the national grid? Oh well, live and learn.
This was a pretty good on-the-ground summary of the experience:
⚡️I'M BACK FROM THE BLACKOUT!Spain, Portugal, and part of France have been under a complete power blackout for 10 hours. No electricity, no mobile data, no calls, nothing.Let me tell you how I lived through it from the inside, if it ever happens in your country, you'll… pic.twitter.com/WTeB6GPS1a
— Javi Lopez ⛩️ (@javilopen) April 28, 2025
Naturally, nobody here will be surprised to learn that having some basic abilities to attend to one’s own needs were important:
Back online (still no light here). Lessons from Spain after a really weird day (no electricity, no 4G, no WiFi) for the world1. Go out and buy a pocket battery-power radio. It was really disconcerting to have no way to know what is going on. 2. Buy a battery powered torche .…
— Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@lugaricano) April 28, 2025
Me? I would barely have noticed. I’ve got backup batteries and a mini Starlink so I’d not have lost touch with the world, not worried to terribly much about my immediate needs.
But if the power had been out for more than 24 hours? Then people’s freezers would have melted down, causing problems.
More than a week? Then the cities would have experienced social unrest and looting and such. More than a month? Now we’re into the culling…
At any rate, this is the first of many grid instabilities that all Woke, DEI, or Greenie cultures have to look forward to.
by irishprince 
