Remember that massive power outage in Spain and Portugal last month? From the UK Daily Mail,
Eco-experiment that ‘blacked out entire country’: Spanish scientists ‘were experimenting with how far they could push renewable energy’ before country-wide chaos.
And how did that go? The BBC wrote at the time,
At least three people have died in Spain in an incident linked to a massive power cut that shut the country down on Monday, the Civil Guard has told the BBC.
The impacts were devastating. The Daily Mail with details of the blackout,
The outage, said to be one of the worst ever in Europe, started on the afternoon of April 28 and lasted through nightfall, affecting tens of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula.
Offices closed and traffic was snarled in Madrid and Lisbon, while some civilians in Barcelona directed traffic. Train services in both countries stopped.
It disrupted businesses, hospitals, transit systems, cellular networks and other critical infrastructure.
What were they doing? The UK Telegraph has the story,
Sources in Brussels have told The Telegraph that the authorities were conducting an experiment before the system crashed, probing how far they could push reliance on renewables in preparation for Spain’s rushed phase-out of nuclear reactors from 2027.
Call it “net zero,” “Green New Deal,” or whatever your favorite term may be, it’s all just a big experiment to see if the laws of physics and economics can be overcome by sheer messianic zeal.
And it’s all for naught as China continues on a coal-plant-building binge.
