Massive Blackout Cripples Spain and Portugal's Daily Life

[Cameroni]

This would never happen with Trump in charge.

[rough diamond]

7 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

This would never happen with Trump in charge.

As you do not know for definite what cause the blackouts only a MAGAmaniac could make and believe that ridiculous statement!

 

[SunnyinBangrak]

12 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's a good thing that major blackouts have never happened with grids based on fossil fuels. Because otherwise the assumption that it was the fault of renewables would look kind of suspect.

The last western Europe blackout of this scale happened in WW2. EIGHTY years ago. Your point? 

 

Don't econut msm consumers stand out like a sore thumb😅 most twigged when Gores polar bears didnt go extinct, the high priests of wokeness purchased TWO sea level mansions and were able to insure them, and saw Megs and Harry travelling by private jet routinely. The whole thing was a scam, but welcome to keep believing it.

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Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

The last western Europe blackout of this scale happened in WW2. EIGHTY years ago. Your point? 

 

Don't econut msm consumers stand out like a sore thumb😅 most twigged when Gores polar bears didnt go extinct, the high priests of wokeness purchased TWO sea level mansions and were able to insure them, and saw Megs and Harry travelling by private jet routinely. The whole thing was a scam, but welcome to keep believing it.

thanks for the rant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_European_power_outage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Italy_blackout

[Cameroni]

4 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

As you do not know for definite what cause the blackouts only a MAGAmaniac could make and believe that ridiculous statement!

 

 

Obviously it is the Socialists mis-managing the infrastructure, what else can it be? With the Partido Popular the electricity was glowing like a christmas tree, no issues.

 

These socialists need to be thrown on the streets where they belong.

 

Too busy prosecuting a man for kissing a woman, imagine.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, Globalres said:

What I find hilarious is that this has NOT been mentioned in MSM.  Such a failure cannot be admitted.  Sad when the truth, whatever subject,  is suppressed just to appease the “woke” media and government.  

 

I guess it depends on how well read a person is:

 

Per the Associated Press tonight:

 

"the authorities in Spain have yet to provide further explanations for what caused one of the most serious blackouts to ever take place in Europe.

...

Spain’s meteorological agency, AEMET, said that it had not detected any “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena” on Monday, and no sudden temperature fluctuations were recorded at their weather stations.

 

Portugal’s National Cybersecurity Center on Monday dismissed speculation about foul play, saying there was no sign that the outage resulted from a cyber attack."

 

https://apnews.com/article/spain-portugal-power-outage-electicity-533832bb4ceae92eaa68c23dc0b5db18

 

 

[rough diamond]

14 minutes ago, placeholder said:

He may well mean that. non-toxic Iron oxide batteries that can't burn because they're not flammable are now a thing.

https://evolutionoftheprogress.com/iron-air-batteries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_Energy

I was actually referring to the non eco friendly mineral extraction, battery assembly and transportation of so called eco systems like batteries, solar cells and windmills etc.

 

The ones you refer to appear to have each individual battery which is about the size of a washing machine.  The battery modules are grouped together in modular megawatt-scale power blocks where tens to hundreds of these power blocks will be connected to the electricity grid.

In its least dense configuration, a one megawatt system requires about an acre of land!

All good for the environment.!!!!

 

PS; I am NOT an eco warrior as you may gather.

[Harrisfan]

4 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Obviously it is the Socialists mis-managing the infrastructure, what else can it be? With the Partido Popular the electricity was glowing like a christmas tree, no issues.

 

These socialists need to be thrown on the streets where they belong.

 

Too busy prosecuting a man for kissing a woman, imagine.

100 years of lefties trying to ruin the world

[rough diamond]

26 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's a good thing that major blackouts have never happened with grids based on fossil fuels. Because otherwise the assumption that it was the fault of renewables would look kind of suspect.

But we are treated as fossils as we do not bow down to the great god "Climate Change"!

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4 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

I was actually referring to the non eco friendly mineral extraction, battery assembly and transportation of so called eco systems like batteries, solar cells and windmills etc.

 

The ones you refer to appear to have each individual battery which is about the size of a washing machine.  The battery modules are grouped together in modular megawatt-scale power blocks where tens to hundreds of these power blocks will be connected to the electricity grid.

In its least dense configuration, a one megawatt system requires about an acre of land!

All good for the environment.!!!!

 

PS; I am NOT an eco warrior as you may gather.

First off, you really want to go with the least dense system? You questioned whether such a system existed and it does. Huge amounts of iron ore are extracted yearly. This usage doesn't add up to much of that.

But I will admit that the great thing about fossil fuels is that they're pretty much inexhaustible. You keep on drilling and the stuff keeps on coming out, Like forever!!! And the land and the water table are as good as new!!!

Whereas with renewables sooner or later, the sunlight and wind get tapped out and you need to move to the next location.

 

[Cameroni]

So what if you were in an elevator and...electricity is gone?

 

Hasta la vista, baby?

[BexMan]

We are in Spain at the moment and there was no power to cook food yesterday evening. A local branch of a major supermarket here has its own generator. They also have a microwave that customers can use to heat up food brought in the store. Went there to use it and found it wasn’t backed up by the generator. 😭To our amazement they had every checkout open and a minimum of 15 people in every line, most with fully laden trolleys. Usually they have a third of the check outs open with no more than 3 people in a line. Must be the same people that brought all the toilet rolls and pasta when Covid hit.

 

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, BexMan said:

Usually they have a third of the check outs open with no more than 3 people in a line. Must be the same people that brought all the toilet rolls and pasta when Covid hit.

 

There's nothing like a little inconvenience to set paranoid preppers kicking off due to FOMO....

 

Toilet Rolls in the UK (I could never get my head around that one)...   Water here in Thailand, in the 2011 floods...

 

Napoleon Bonaparte: “The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

 

Me: "Fear (FOMO) is the most contagious thing in the world, and when the media feeds it, people will do the dumbest things."

[johng]

This could actually be worse than just unreliable "green" energy

might be due to a shift of the earths magnetic poles letting in too much cosmic radiation  which overloaded the power grid

“unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena”  ?

[JonnyF]

It's amusing to see the "Progressives" taking us back to the dark ages with their Net Zero folly. 😃

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6d0987r0o

 

 

[josephbloggs]

On 4/29/2025 at 11:38 AM, Globalres said:

What I find hilarious is that this has NOT been mentioned in MSM.  Such a failure cannot be admitted.  Sad when the truth, whatever subject,  is suppressed just to appease the “woke” media and government.  

Yawn.

You guys are so predictable. And "woke" is soooooo boring now.

Are these not "MSM"? Surely the Guardian is lefty lefty wokey wokey, no?

Just try to think for yourself instead of parroting childish terms automatically without even looking for yourself.

 

[josephbloggs]

20 hours ago, This Guy said:

Episodes of the Simpsons in 1998 and again in 2007 predicted a global blackout on 30th April 2025
 

No they didn't.

[BritManToo]

10 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Yawn.

You guys are so predictable. And "woke" is soooooo boring now.

Are these not "MSM"? Surely the Guardian is lefty lefty wokey wokey, no?

Just try to think for yourself instead of parroting childish terms automatically without even looking for yourself.

 

Would point out all those stories were published after the "not reported in MSM" you quoted.

[GammaGlobulin]

19 hours ago, placeholder said:

He may well mean that. non-toxic Iron oxide batteries that can't burn because they're not flammable are now a thing.

https://evolutionoftheprogress.com/iron-air-batteries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_Energy

 

What about using compressed air to build a good storage battery?

 

[placeholder]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

What about using compressed air to build a good storage battery?

 

That's also being done as well as liiquified air. The thing is iron oxide batteries store power very cheaply. About $20 per kwh of storage..And maybe cheaper as time goes by.  I don't know what the figures for compressed and liquified air are or projected to be.

[GammaGlobulin]

Just now, placeholder said:

liiquified air

 

I said air.

 

And, when you say "liquefied" air, are you speaking of some other type of air????

 

Come on....Man.....!!!!

 

 

[josephbloggs]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Would point out all those stories were published after the "not reported in MSM" you quoted.

 

By how long?

And surely an "MSM conspiracy" is an MSM conspiracy, no? Or it's only a conspiracy for a couple of hours until it gets published. Surely an MSM conspiracy would mean it gets buried by the woke, loony left, agenda wielding press? Well, it didn't get buried did it. Ergo the conspiracy is all in the posters mind, just like every other bit of anti MSM propaganda you read.

[BritManToo]

6 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

 

By how long?

And surely an "MSM conspiracy" is an MSM conspiracy, no? Or it's only a conspiracy for a couple of hours until it gets published. Surely an MSM conspiracy would mean it gets buried by the woke, loony left, agenda wielding press? Well, it didn't get buried did it. Ergo the conspiracy is all in the posters mind, just like every other bit of anti MSM propaganda you read.

Maybe they read AN, and thought now the secret was out they'd better come clean.

[hotandsticky]

17 hours ago, BexMan said:

We are in Spain at the moment and there was no power to cook food yesterday evening. A local branch of a major supermarket here has its own generator. They also have a microwave that customers can use to heat up food brought in the store. Went there to use it and found it wasn’t backed up by the generator. 😭To our amazement they had every checkout open and a minimum of 15 people in every line, most with fully laden trolleys. Usually they have a third of the check outs open with no more than 3 people in a line. Must be the same people that brought all the toilet rolls and pasta when Covid hit.

 

 

 

The only inconvenience yesterday was the local bar not being able to process card payment.