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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 15:24:29 +1000
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On 1/05/2025 7:28 am, Joe Gwinn wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:33:17 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:
>>> Spain suffered a very spectacular near total loss of its national grid
>>> yesterday taking parts of France and all of Portugal down with it. This
>>> is an unprecedented failure of a supergrid system by cascade failure.
>>
>> (total loss in the peninsula)
>>
>> For those that can follow spoken Spanish, there has just been a detailed
>> explanation on Radio Cadena Ser. Aimar Bretos interviewed Jorge Morales
>> on Hora 25:
>>
>> «Director of Próxima Energía and expert in the energy sector.
>> Entrepreneur and industrial engineer from the Polytechnic University of
>> Madrid, he has more than 20 years of experience in the Spanish
>> electricity sector.»
>>
>> Direct link to mp3, starting from 31:30
>>
>> <https://25673.mc.tritondigital.com/HORA_25_CADENASER_320_P/media-session/9db9ab48-74f6-4fac-9b8f-ab24df840f9f/2025/4/29/cadenaser_hora25_20250429_210000_220000.mp3?dist=cadenaser-web-tfp-permanente&csegid=22000&dl=1>
>>
>> and:
>>
>> <https://25673.mc.tritondigital.com/HORA_25_CADENASER_320_P/media-session/a06f2199-cd2a-4ce5-8045-ba282565c2c0/2025/4/29/cadenaser_hora25_20250429_220000_230000.mp3?dist=cadenaser-web-tfp-permanente&csegid=22000&dl=1>
>>
>>
>> Or, if that fails:
>>
>> <https://cadenaser.com/audio/cadenaser_hora25_20250429_210000_220000/?ssm=whatsapp>
>>
>> Continues on
>>
>> <https://cadenaser.com/audio/cadenaser_hora25_20250429_220000_230000/?ssm=whatsapp>
>>
>>
>>
>> Waiting for the podcast to appear [...] got it.
>>
>> <https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2025/04/29/se-puede-repetir-el-apagon-un-experto-responde-la-duda-tras-la-caida-de-la-red-electrica-cadena-ser/?ssm=whatsapp>
> 
> 
> The Wall Street Journal just published an analysis.  The authors are
> Spanish.
> 
> How the Lights Went Out in Spain
> The country flew too close to the sun — which is to say it relied too
> heavily on unreliable solar power.
> 
> The following link should not require a subscription.
> 
> .<https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-lights-went-out-in-spain-solar-power-electric-grid-0096bbc7?st=MbzSqb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink>

The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and his newspapers 
do publish a lot of climate change denial propaganda. This seems to be 
more of it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney