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:
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:
How it went:
Why it happened?
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:
Naturally, nobody here will be surprised to learn that having some basic abilities to attend to one’s own needs were important:
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?
by irishprince 
