We had a few people in today’s vid-chat mention the power outage but it was too early to speculate. I’ve been watching the Sun for a few days (and MAN are my eyes tired) so i’d expected something. Not quite Carrington but it’ll do for a Monday…
This is still live at time of posting. The author does state that solar storms have been normal though there was a large plasma burst a few days ago. More of a suggestion of a low frequency loading effect. Worth the watch.
Divine intervention? Sadly it wasn’t Europe wide, but at least some people got a taste of how “convenient” only digital money can be. No paper money, no food and water.
This picture demonstrates our planet repelling one of the planets sliding through our solar system. This has been going on since our Twin Solar System came into view from the South & has been traversing since about 2009 causing all kinds of weird weather!! Check out the SAMUEL HOFMAN interviews on Radio Wasteland. 
The reason for the blackout … this situation reminds me of a Shoe cartoon from long ago. I tried to find it online but … It went something like this … In the first panel Perfessor Cozmo Fishhawk is sitting in his chair waiting for his nephew Skyler to arrive home from school. In the next few panels we see Skyler walking home with his report card in hand looking quite despondent. Skyler talks to himself in several panels going through excuse after excuse hoping to find one that he thinks his Uncle Cozmo will accept. Immediately upon arrival Skyler starts spouting off about how his academic performance has been affected by the pressure brought to bear on him because of all of the world’s ills. Uncle Cozmo replies to each with an “uh huh” then goes silent. Skyler begins to smile as he thinks his Uncle has bought all of his psycho/social babble and is going to let him slide with his bad report card. In the last panel Cozmo says to him, “you know, I think there is one that you’ve forgotten to mention.” Skyler is ecstatic at this point thinking, “What could be better, he’s actually going to add more support to my arguments for failure.” Uncle Cozmo says, “You know, all of those things could be true, but more than likely, it just could be that you’re as dumb as a log.” In the words of the great Maynard G. Krebs, “Cosmic oscillations - Come now.”
I’d say as the power grid was pieced together, a way to bring it down was also configured. How does one bring back up a downed power grid for two countries and part of another in nine hours without knowing where the vulnerable pieces are located and how to snap them back in place? Great tool for controlling the populous. The explosion of cybersecurity firms gives credence to what possibly could cause such catastrophic failure. Literally making up an atmospheric cause is a new one for the books.
As the data centers[read: control grids] come on line; the public power grids decline.
AI is the new prison power grid warden, and will be blamed for the power failures;
not the elite’s choosing of control grids, over what’s best for their populations.
Today elites choose what’s best for themselves, because today…
Public, is Enemy #1; in the 20th-Worst Century.
https://x.com/energybants/status/1917206847389389216
SPAIN BLACKOUTS: AN ANONYMOUS EXPERT VIEW
From a deep groupchat, last night, translated from Spanish, written by an expert in transmission and distribution of power. Not my words.
"What has happened on April 28 has a well-located origin: the Aragón-Catalonia corridor, which is one of the most important electric highways in Spain. There is not only the electricity produced by our solar and wind farms in the northeast, but also the electricity that we import from France. This international interconnection, although weak (it can only contribute 3% of our demand, well below the minimum of 10% that marks the EU), in times of stress is essential to balance the network.
At 12:32 p.m., in that Aragón-Catalonia corridor there was an electric shock. What exactly does “shake” mean? It means that suddenly and abnormally, the power that flowed through those lines began to vary violently, rising and falling in a very short time. Such abrupt variability can be due to three main causes:
That a relay or transformer on that electric highway detects an abnormal flow of current or voltage (higher or lower than expected) and automatically disconnected to avoid burning or destroyed. This is called that “opens” a relay or switch: it jumps and cuts the passage of electricity to protect itself.
That the enormous concentration of renewable energy in that area (mainly solar and wind) has created an electrical resonance: electronic inverters, which synchronize current, can sometimes be amplified between them if a small voltage alteration (for example, due to clouds, strong wind or a slight failure) extends like an echo to all devices, causing widespread oscillations.
That a wrong control order has been sent (by mistake or attack) from the SCADA systems, disconnecting or reducing the generation of multiple hit plants. There is no confirmation of this possibility yet, but it is being investigated.
What is known is that as a consequence of that shake, the interconnection with France jumped: we were isolated just at the worst time, when the peninsula needed external support to stabilize.
Without that French help, the frequency of the peninsular network (which should always be 50 Hz exact) began to drop quickly. The frequency is like the heartbeat of the network: if it falls too much, the systems understand that the patient (the network) is collapsing and automatically disconnected so as not to self-destruct. Thus, in just five seconds, the solar and wind farms were turned off —very sensitive to frequency variations—, 15 GW of power was lost suddenly (60% of all the electricity generated at that time), and the network could not take it anymore: it was It collapsed completely, showing the Redeia Platform (REE) a “0 MW” nationwide. That does not mean that all the turbines were physically turned off, but there was no generator synchronized at the common frequency of 50 Hz. It was, for practical purposes, a country off.
To ignite a completely dead network again, one essential thing is needed: plants that can start in black, that is, without receiving energy from anywhere else. Spain has identified five large hydroelectric jumps capable of doing this. However, and here is one of the great negligences that are coming to light, three of those five groups were stopped in scheduled maintenance, by business decision supervised by the administration. Only two were operational. That made the recovery much slower and weaker than it should be in a normal contingency plan.
The result is that, after almost 10 hours, only 35% to 40% of the national supply has been recovered, and there are still large areas in the dark or under scheduled cuts.
The situation reveals a very serious underlying problem:
Spain is still an energy island: it only has 3% foreign exchange capacity compared to its total demand. The network depends a lot on variable renewables, which are disconnected quickly in the face of any instability. The lack of physical inertia reserves (i.e. large rotating masses such as thermal power plants or classic hydraulics) prevents the disturbances from damping. And poor maintenance planning left without enough hydraulic muscle to respond to a crisis. The most likely causes, with current data, are: A combination of technical failure in protection or in synchronization, added to a serious lack of operational forecast and maintenance (probability ≈ 40%). The possibility of an intentional cyber-physical attack remains in analysis (≈ 25% estimated probability). Other factors such as human error, punctual atmospheric phenomenon or mixed causes complete the rest. In short: an initial shake at the most sensitive point of the Spanish network —the Aragón-Catalonia corridor, door to Europe— left the peninsula isolated and vulnerable. The network could not sustain its own demand because it did not have sufficient assistance, nor stable physical reserve, nor enough bootable plants in black. Three of five hydroelectric jumps were out of service when they were most needed. For this reason, Spain went out in five seconds, and that is why it still continues to light little by little, fragile, slow and exposed."
I’ve got to eat some crow here… First I’d heard of the mass outage was during Monday’s vid-chat
and other than some first-hand information from Rui (of Portugal) we only had some vague ideas as to the actual scale and potential causes of the outage. The chat experienced probably the worst connection issues we’ve seen to date, with the Doc having to hard-reset no less than 8 times (perhaps a symptom of overload interweb traffic associated with the grid going down).
In addition to the usual suspects (Suspicious Observers, Dutchsinse, etc) I’m always trying out
new space-weather/Earth change channels with fresh perspectives and less POTENTIAL tunnel vision. The last few days I’d been listening to a few previous vids from the author while driving for work. His was the first information I’d seen on the subject and my error was assuming that the “space weather” theory was HIS and not the “mainstream” explanation.
I simply did not do my due diligence…apologies. It’s often quite difficult to balance staying on
top of the news cycle while juggling our personal lives and careers (such as they are), especially considering the near exponential change in the rate of said happenings and their related impacts. And that’s saying nothing of the energy required to parse through the “narrative-givers” verbal sleight of hand…
Having said that… Personally, I do think there’s good cause for concern for solar activity even
on a scale less than that of the Carrington event on the 1800’s to wreck havoc on any existing power grid under certain conditions. Not based on any plans from the controllers necessarily, but due to worn parts, DEI duct-tape repairs and stressing the aging parts far beyond specs.
As Bill mentioned, I’m sure “they” do have a play-by-play of what would need to happen to bring the grid down. After taking some time to read about the whole situation in much more depth this evening I’d say there are multiple different scenario’s, theories and players that rise above the “natural” causes we heard about on day one…
I’m certainly no expert, and although I consider myself to be moderately smarter than the average bear… compared to most of you I’m just starting to learn to ambulate and recognize my own hands! Still… I’ll argue with confidence that we will be seeing these outages, along with the related price-hikes, come to a “theater near you”. It might be by accident or by design. It WILL be in 3D though and we all might get to act along. Might not be speaking parts but it’ll be something to tell the kids about, If you get to keep them…
Also, incidentally, “Squatter man” had me at hello… Keep your eyes on the skies!
AND, all the while; “they’re” weaponizing the Sun, in as many ways as possible.
Whose to say that Spain; wasn’t a target, of such a Sun, as weapon - experiment?
Prelude to a China target?
Or, for that matter; China setting up the USSA, as the next target?
Oh, what a tangled web we weave; when first we practice to deceive.
I wonder what happens when two, three, four, or more countries…
Experiment on the Sun - all at the same time[and/or place]?
Well, that’s why “they” have their underground bases.
They know, with their selves in charge?
They probably couldn’t experiment so freely, with their “citizens” lives;
if they themselves, were at risk. Hence; underground escape routes.
Trillions well spent.
Earth may even survive their insanity?
Who needs to worry about aliens, with leadership like this?
Check out Stefan Burns site. He covers space weather and occasionally astrological connection. here is the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWx4zf9YhJg
At least it has woken up some of my neighbors in more then one aspect on reality!
Omnimatter’s post was a superb rundown of the nuts and bolts of the failure. Originally the Spanish authorities said it was an ‘atmospheric anomaly’. For me, these are not mutually exclusive…could be there were anomalous locally isolated temperatures that caused abnormal loads or stresses on the equipment. Could a super-cell of very hot temperatures be caused by a HAARP or similar type device? Probably. Perhaps on Ventusky we can find records of ‘hot spots’ that might corroborate this.
I went to Ventusky and searched for temperature anomalies in Spain over the past several days. I was not able to see any temperatures over 83F (that in the south) so the ‘atmospheric anomaly’ must not have been temperature.
Now this one makes sense.
Apparently a ‘highly unlikely’ coincidence nearly got the UK at the same time.
The results indicate to me the level of understanding in the current crop of engineering talent with respect to dampening surge-transients is extremely suspect.
Food for thought…
I would look for any agreements between these countries and China and see if there were any violations.
Looks like a “must have” weapon in any country’s tool kit.
No doubt, Nazi International may have one,[or, 2, 3, 4, … ]
Great for false flags!
Stir up some “conflicts”.
The next think you know, they’ll be space pirate rockets - with sand payloads.
[a “poor” nation’s nuke - in the “rich” satellite seas, of “empty” space… ]
