Maybe you heard last week that the UK is planning to take on a scheme to block the sun? But they also want to rely on solar panels? Have they not thought this through?
Alright: My serious answer is, they are scrambling to own our water and air, so we have to pay to even breathe. Did you see who they replaced Mr. "Zee Bugz" Schwab with? That dude who looks like Terminator grampaw? Complete with red cyber eye? He's that Nestle maniac who wants us to pay him to drink water. They are not kidding! Why we humans put up with this, I'll never know. Why wouldn't they also want to charge us for rights to sun power? Seems to me, that's right in line with the rest of their utter bullshit.
Despite all their efforts, they will fail even though they replace failed leaders with even worse ones (Carney replaced Trudeau!) There will always be evil, but we have the tools to win should we choose to use them. Experts are having a rough go of it at the moment, so I hope they (the experts) just keep going as they are. Right now they’ve dropped to joke status.
These people think that because they have wealth beyond all
reason that they get to make all the decisions. I’m reading a history of WW1 that claims 3 of the wealthiest men in England decided Germany was a threat and that war with Germany was the answer to advancing their own private interests, and that Germany should be blamed for starting it when all along it was 3 Englishmen who planned it all. Oh, and they also controlled the media, of course.
Yes. One stupid company wants to sell “cooling credits” by releasing sulfur dioxide filled balloons into the atmosphere. Sulfuric acid aka acid rain. They have received a strongly worded letter from the new EPA. It’s not just Gates of Hell wanting to enrich his bank account by taking down the entire earth and anything that walks and breathes or grows on it. Who will iron his human skin suit if we are gone? I doubt cockroaches have learned that skill. Whoever is left will be eating them all anyhoo.
The operative word in your statement is think! The power mongers don’t think. They virtue signal. That’s all. These things are survivable just ask anyone who went through hurricane Wilma or other really big storms. We did fine. We had generators, back up food, plenty of gasoline. And friends who went in search for gasoline when we ran out. This situation has made me rethink my dependence on our electric grid, however, Tesla makes solar panels, so I’m seriously considering supporting mask and having them installed in the very near future! In the meantime, we did some canning while Biden was in power, and we have plenty of non-perishables in the basement. at least enough to last a month. We don’t have chickens. And my brown thumb will not allow us to grow food lol. The best we can do in this house is to make sure we have multiple power sources. Natural gas, electric, and hopefully solar soon! What a wonky world we continue to live in!
Thought it through!? Why on earth would the government think anything through to intended or unintended consequences!? NET ZERO-EVERYTHING!
Now, Europe has achieved NET ZERO-EVERYTHING! Yippee! How the feck is that working out? Apparently, not well for the lady who was slumped over, waiting for the power to come back on to retrieve her mold-ridden laundry.
CASH! SERIOUSLY! Cash, cash, and more cash! I have been harping, screaming, scratching, and hissing about CASH for over five years! Your stupid plastic cards are just stupid plastic cards!
Please don't forget... that cash is just stupid pieces of paper that have no intrinsic value, and whose value is otherwise determined by stupid governments who can devalue it at will.
It’s really weird that reconition of the chemtrailing of our skies is being portrayed as planning to possibly block the sun sometime in the future… Those of us who have been looking up for the last 15+years have seen the sun and our blue skies covered with smudge,regularly…What is weird is that,at least in my part of California,it seems to have been greatly reduced for about the last 6 years. But,then,the annual wildfires that burn crazy hot put the sun out every year,so,maybe that’s enough for “them”🤷🏻♀️
Yes. This morning it was beautiful blue,but,then I saw the spray drifting from more north of us,to now,almost total smudge…
I guess what I’ve noticed is there is no longer those really thick trails that crossed each other in the now classic “checkerboard” pattern… it LOOKS like it may be a different way or product. Or,too many people (finally) started to look up and see that these ain’t no normal jet streams…so, they changed the look? IDK.It’s pretty smudgy at 4pm Bay Area!
Exactly what I was thinking. Central planners brought down the USSR. That and the number of varieties of Oreos Gorbachev saw and surrendered. Blocking the sun will end Net Zero.
lol! If only that poor lady waiting for her laundry had Jenna McCarthy's first edition Thesaurus to read while she waited for the power to come back on...
It's absolutely insane and unbelievable that this wibbly wobbly excuse holds any water. How is this real? So the weather was weathering, but wasn't someone just messing with the weather in an un-Godly way? Maybe blocking out the sun in the UK wasn't such a good idea after all. 🤪
I hope more people are pissed from this and wake up to what is actually going on. This is a trial run to normalize the masses into this idea that the power grid can go down for entire countries. It's weird that this wasn't a thing until now huh? Just like all of the sudden how masks started to work against viruses...
Hahahaha! Seriously? No, but seriously, read Michael Shellenberger's SS yesterday--perfectly explaining the facts and mechanics of the lunacy of renewables!
Thank God this happened; it was just a matter of time. Now, the "people" have to wake up to the realities of the bullshit "renewables!"
Like the 2021 snowstorms in Texas that blanketed the solar panels and slogged down the windmills. Power was out for days, people with no way to get water or food.
not being a consumer of the daily hysteria report known as the corporate news, this is the first I've heard of all this bruhaha.
wondering how their solar energy is gonna work out after they dim the sun with inorganic particles... back in the day, 'better living thru chemistry' meant a whole other, more amusing thing ;)
(p.s. just shared the fact that Prince William wore a blue suit to the pope's nifty send-off, with my sis and BIL. got lots of 'uh, uh, uh...')
MSM nuts narrowed the image, thus leaving out the many shades of blue suits around President Trump. (Ever notice autocorrect can’t even bring up Trump after you type President. Only obumma and Biden. ) 😡
I have a second home in Spain and am due back to the U.S. in early May. I experienced the blackout yesterday and was relieved to wake up with the power back on. My computer hasn't been so lucky however. It's still not connecting to the hardwired system we installed. I am grateful for the Iphone's hotspot.
It actually felt creepy, once we learned that the entire country was without electricity. It felt quite different from the periodic power outages in Oregon. Of course the scariest thing was a possible forthcoming attack on Spain but cooler heads prevailed as my husband reassured me that all would be well. It's so nice when he happens to be right. Another concern was that America would immediately be blamed. Fortunately they found a more hated guy to blame initially - apparently Putin remains #1 on the most hated list.
I have witnessed a troubling and dramatic change in the attitudes of my expat friends however, who hail from around the globe. Prior to the tariffs, this international community was non judgemental, happy to chat about world issues, no blame or accusations. Over the last month however, people are willing to trash talk Trump with complete abandon. I always felt that post Covid, I had left behind any political division when coming here and enjoyed interesting discussions and different cultural attitudes and beliefs. I suspect once the tariffs impacted their countries financial situation and their savings accounts, all bets were off apparently. It's been quite unpleasant. All my friends know that I didn't vote for Trump but that doesn't seem to matter. I never would have imagined, in my wildest dreams, that I'd feel compelled to defend the man.
Friends who live off the grid, in a small cortijo up on the mountain, were unscathed by the blackout. They are 100% on solar and it's always sunny in this part of Spain. We're reported to have 320 days of sunshine here. I always questioned the feasibility of living off the grid but this experience certainly helped me to realize that having an additional power source would be helpful.
Will we ever know what caused this disruption? I suspect not. Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I believe the people in the know will definitely figure out who is responsible for this drama and chaos. Will this information be made available to the general public? No reason whatsoever to believe that will be the case.
When we built our retirement home here in east Texas two years ago I installed a 20kW back-up generator. Excellent investment as the power went out for about a week last year (in the middle of a hot summer), we stayed cool and didn't lose anything in the freezers. Neighbors lost hundreds of dollars worth of food. The generator is expensive to run 24/7, I'm guessing around $40 a day. I'm now researching a battery system (Tesla Wall?) to power the place so I can shut down the generator for a portion of the day.
I foresee more blackout/brownout incidents with the power grid in the future. Everyone went to college but what we really need is more electricians, plumbers, HVAC people.
Do you know what the 2nd most abundant liquid on the planet is after water?? It's OIL. Now why would that be if it's so bad for the environment?!
I don't believe in climate change anymore but you know what the MSM does not talk about... POLLUTION. Why don't they get the micro plastics out of everything?
They should protest in Spain & Portugal & tell them to cut the crap and go back reliable methods. But they won't:-(
You reminded me of a question that so far no one has answered: plastic bags have been banned in New York state. Yet, almost everything in the grocery stores is encased in plastic. My personal favorite is the plastic bags on a roll to put your fresh vegetables in. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm 61 and started having to use scissors to break into everything I buy for awhile now since it's all encased in plastic. But yeah, let's get rid of the plastic grocery bags, which actually are helpful. And not the gross, thick stuff that things DON'T need to be encased in, which can cut and hurt you.
It’s not just the reusable bags that they overfill. Even when you’re paying a nickel for a paper bag, the clerks seem to be playing a game of Tetris, trying to fit as much in each bag as they can. I imagine they’re trying to make sure you don’t feel cheated by having to pay for an extra bag. I always tell them I’m too old to carry such heavy bags. I’m more than happy to pay for an extra bag, so please don’t overfill them.
On the other hand, I remember back when the flimsy plastic bags were standard. I’d buy say 10 items at the store and find them bagged into 6 different plastic bags when I got home. Why???
Exactly! Yet, consumers can’t have plastic bags anymore, a necessary item for cleaning cat litter boxes. And in NY, stores charge 5 cents for paper bags which means you have to bring those seriously inconvenient reusable bags which, by the way, plastic bags are too. SMH
In CA, during the covid hoax, they stopped letting us use our own bags for groceries. Of course there was no scientific reason behind it, or even basic logic. So plastic bags came back, after they had been banned for a couple of years. So stupid.
We went through the same thing: personal bags were banned! We could only use the store’s plastic bags. But we had already touched the groceries we were buying so what difference did bag ownership mean especially when it was the employee who was doing the bagging!!!! The contradictions! 🤣
Same in Texas! The Trader Joe's cashier couldn't touch your bags (but COULD touch every single item YOU JUST TOUCHED). They'd scan everything, put it into a new cart and then send you outside to these ridiculously small, high-top tables to bag your stuff. IT. WAS. INSANE.
yet another convid lunacy that I forgot about. the ban on bringing your own bags. my former BFF was leaving her groceries under a blue light (to kill germs, lol) in her pantry over night. she even send ME one of the hand-held wand ones. pretty sure it went, unopened, into a Salvation Army donation box. ;)
I agree with you. I live in Spain (I'm Scottish), and mass protests against solar and windmill energy won't happen. I live within a mile or so from the largest photovoltaic power plant in Europe. Did that help us yesterday when the power grid failed? No! Oh, the construction phase of the power plant provided lots of jobs for local people - for a while, but that isn't sustainable. Do we get free electricity, living next to Europe's largest photovoltaic power plant? No. Should we? Hmm... :-)
Some years ago I read a very thorough scientific analysis on the phenomenal amounts of toxic gases, minerals, etc., that come from volcanic activity beneath the oceans. The estimates completely dwarfed/negated any measurable effects from "Anthropomorphic" sources. It is only because these leftist clowns can't see, smell, or touch these natural atmospheric impacts, that they haven't figured out how to tax it's impacts. Essentially, we (humans) account for comparatively "nothing" in atmospherics.
Western NC got a taste of the no-electricity-no-phone-no-water lifestyle after Helene. Most people without electricity for about 3 weeks. No running water for a month, then the running water was only for flushing for another month. It is now nasty tasting from the chemicals used to clean up the water from the reservoir that was destroyed and rebuilt. Best to be prepared!
I am wondering why California - who already has rolling brownouts and blackouts - thinks they can handle 40 million electric vehicles juicing up all day every day. Isn't that what they've proposed as "clean energy" and the mandate for 2035?
Can we finally realize that the people in power are complete idiots? And that our system is designed to put complete idiots with psychopathic personalities in charge?
RIGHT???!!!! I mean SERIOUSLY…. One side of their (CA Government) is wanting us to cut back on electricity consumption ~ especially during set hours….yet out of the OTHER side of their mouths they want everyone to switch over to electric only vehicles!!!!
My best educated guess is that NO. There doesn’t seem to be much (okay, ANY!!) activity between the ears to ponder the insanity of this nonsense! As someone noted a while back, it’s all (oh gosh! Can’t think of it, when you’re acting as though it’s the politically correct thing to do…something I think like virtue signaling?)…by getting on this make believe “green” band wagon! If they even took a deeper dive into the batteries for these electric vehicles, they’d be aware of how ultimately HORRIFIC it is for the environment!
Pretty sure power lines have been hot before... Thinking Arizona? Death Valley? Houston? For that matter, Spain? Not buying this one. "Rare" atmospheric event: "It got hot??" OTOH, there does not seem to be any science-y way of saying "Truthfully, we EFFed up, big time." Bill Clinton really kicked civilization downward with his demonstrated proofs that "Distraction Works" because it quickly became the go-to for EFF-ups like him.
I used to live just west of Phoenix, AZ and our summers were 4-5 months of 100°F +++ days. Frequently, we’d be over 115° for weeks at a time. We had plenty of electricity. Even with everyone’s central AC kicked into overdrive. Europe’s excuse is a bunch of bollux! We’re now in the White Mountains in NE AZ. Much cooler here attend 6500ft. but just as much sunshine. We’ve been running on solar with zero disruptions even throughout the winter. We have a grid connection, but have rarely ever used it.
Reader's Digest (Readers' Digest?) once had a "Life in These United States" short about a Phoenix woman who when asked what they do when daytime temps hit 110 replied, "Oh, then, we just zip out of our skins and sit around in our bones!"
And you’re still freaking sweltering. I hated it there. From June through September life outdoors is impossible. I used to wake up at 4:00AM to walk my dogs and it was still 100 degrees! Insufferable. I couldn’t wait to leave. I’m an outdoors person and hated that for four months a year you went from your house to your car to your office to the store and back home. My animals hated it, also. If it’s cold you can always get warm. But when it’s 115 degrees all you can do is stay indoors. How miserable.
Curiously, up north, as an old Texan, I pine for the days when "you didn't have to pay to get warm, and you could get cool for free by stepping into some shade." I had kin in Phoenix and I absolutely know that "Phoenix shade" is just a darker version of full sun.
It can get hot in Spain in summer, but not usually at the end of April. In July or August I've seen temperatures rise to 45 Celsius (113F), and that's hot, but yesterday it was only in the mid 20s at best, about 23 (74F) where I live. :-)
A few really hot days every summer would be tolerable. But in the Phoenix area it hits 100 degrees in mid-April and by June it’s 110+…for the next three months.
I'm from Scotland, currently living in southwest Spain. I've only been to Arizona once, and that was in 1995. It was in April, and temperatures were in the mid 70s to 80F at that time. We had a great time, saw some great things, and have happy memories! :-)
Yes, 18 years ago when we moved out here the summers were decidedly less oppressive. The past 8-9 years it has gotten progressively worse. The population has exploded to over 5 million. They have torn out all the trees and grass replacing with apartments, homes, and shopping centers. Blacktop, concrete and asphalt. It ll just exacerbates the oppressive heat. It literally never cools down. Staying in the 100’s even overnight. Last week Phoenix was given the honor of being named the city with the worst air quality in the nation. Why people are flocking there is beyond me.
This is why I don’t worry about CBDCs coming any time soon.
Spoiler alert: a decade ago we stupidly put solar panels on our roof. If I knew then what I know now: northern PA has a lot of cloudy days, the panels are not recyclable, they have only a 25 year lifespan, and the payoff is 12 years.
Here in AZ, where we have 350 days of sunshine a year, our solar panels power our entire house and barn. Another set power our well and guest house. We have connection to the grid but have rarely used it. In PA, where I used to live, they can’t be worth the investment. (Ours were already here when we bought our little ranch so even better!)
We are well north of Pittsburgh which has 203 cloudy days per year on average. In my defense, I thought we were doing the right thing when we bought the panels.
I have friends out here in the Phoenix area who regret getting solar. They spend $25,000, and sometimes more, to have it installed. It’ll never pay for itself. It doesn’t actually save them anything. Big regrets for some even here in the land of sunshine.
Michael Shellenberger's post from yesterday on his Substack "Public" is worth reading. He explains that over reliance on renewables is what caused the massive power outage. I tried to copy the link but for some reason the tech Gods are not letting me paste it in this comment.
Jenna— I shouldn't laugh at those unfortunate Europeans, but your post really was funny.
You ask, does peanutbutter go bad? Yeah, it can get sort of gummy past its expiration date. Best for long term calorie storage is raw honey— that can last for decades, maybe even longer.
Seems the cash-strapped Venezuelans led the way when they started using bars of soap and bottles of booze. Just a thought that crossed my mind...
Maybe you heard last week that the UK is planning to take on a scheme to block the sun? But they also want to rely on solar panels? Have they not thought this through?
Alright: My serious answer is, they are scrambling to own our water and air, so we have to pay to even breathe. Did you see who they replaced Mr. "Zee Bugz" Schwab with? That dude who looks like Terminator grampaw? Complete with red cyber eye? He's that Nestle maniac who wants us to pay him to drink water. They are not kidding! Why we humans put up with this, I'll never know. Why wouldn't they also want to charge us for rights to sun power? Seems to me, that's right in line with the rest of their utter bullshit.
Despite all their efforts, they will fail even though they replace failed leaders with even worse ones (Carney replaced Trudeau!) There will always be evil, but we have the tools to win should we choose to use them. Experts are having a rough go of it at the moment, so I hope they (the experts) just keep going as they are. Right now they’ve dropped to joke status.
These people think that because they have wealth beyond all
reason that they get to make all the decisions. I’m reading a history of WW1 that claims 3 of the wealthiest men in England decided Germany was a threat and that war with Germany was the answer to advancing their own private interests, and that Germany should be blamed for starting it when all along it was 3 Englishmen who planned it all. Oh, and they also controlled the media, of course.
Yes. One stupid company wants to sell “cooling credits” by releasing sulfur dioxide filled balloons into the atmosphere. Sulfuric acid aka acid rain. They have received a strongly worded letter from the new EPA. It’s not just Gates of Hell wanting to enrich his bank account by taking down the entire earth and anything that walks and breathes or grows on it. Who will iron his human skin suit if we are gone? I doubt cockroaches have learned that skill. Whoever is left will be eating them all anyhoo.
“Have they not thought this through?” It’s the UK greens, darling. BWAHAHA!!
And...love the way the Brits use the word "scheme" instead of "program".
The operative word in your statement is think! The power mongers don’t think. They virtue signal. That’s all. These things are survivable just ask anyone who went through hurricane Wilma or other really big storms. We did fine. We had generators, back up food, plenty of gasoline. And friends who went in search for gasoline when we ran out. This situation has made me rethink my dependence on our electric grid, however, Tesla makes solar panels, so I’m seriously considering supporting mask and having them installed in the very near future! In the meantime, we did some canning while Biden was in power, and we have plenty of non-perishables in the basement. at least enough to last a month. We don’t have chickens. And my brown thumb will not allow us to grow food lol. The best we can do in this house is to make sure we have multiple power sources. Natural gas, electric, and hopefully solar soon! What a wonky world we continue to live in!
Thought it through!? Why on earth would the government think anything through to intended or unintended consequences!? NET ZERO-EVERYTHING!
Now, Europe has achieved NET ZERO-EVERYTHING! Yippee! How the feck is that working out? Apparently, not well for the lady who was slumped over, waiting for the power to come back on to retrieve her mold-ridden laundry.
CASH! SERIOUSLY! Cash, cash, and more cash! I have been harping, screaming, scratching, and hissing about CASH for over five years! Your stupid plastic cards are just stupid plastic cards!
Have things worth bartering. It would be a good time to stock up on booze and cigarettes. Maybe even copper.
Please don't forget... that cash is just stupid pieces of paper that have no intrinsic value, and whose value is otherwise determined by stupid governments who can devalue it at will.
In Case of Emergency - Break Glass!
And,our dollars are only stupid green paper,when it comes down to it…but,I’m still keeping some around!
It’s really weird that reconition of the chemtrailing of our skies is being portrayed as planning to possibly block the sun sometime in the future… Those of us who have been looking up for the last 15+years have seen the sun and our blue skies covered with smudge,regularly…What is weird is that,at least in my part of California,it seems to have been greatly reduced for about the last 6 years. But,then,the annual wildfires that burn crazy hot put the sun out every year,so,maybe that’s enough for “them”🤷🏻♀️
Terrible in the northern part of Cali. Over the State of Jefferson.
Yes. This morning it was beautiful blue,but,then I saw the spray drifting from more north of us,to now,almost total smudge…
I guess what I’ve noticed is there is no longer those really thick trails that crossed each other in the now classic “checkerboard” pattern… it LOOKS like it may be a different way or product. Or,too many people (finally) started to look up and see that these ain’t no normal jet streams…so, they changed the look? IDK.It’s pretty smudgy at 4pm Bay Area!
If you want a criss cross quilt of chemtrails come to MT. We get plenty of them.
I’m sorry to hear that. Terrible!
Mary Ann!
Have they EVER made sense? Come on, now.
🤣
Not really. That's not a chapter in the Progressive Playbook.
You mean thinking things through? lol
Nope.
No. But it has been going on in the USA and Bill Gates had this bright idea of course.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/dim-and-dimmer-why-uk-scientists?utm_source=publication-search
Exactly what I was thinking. Central planners brought down the USSR. That and the number of varieties of Oreos Gorbachev saw and surrendered. Blocking the sun will end Net Zero.
They really aren’t as smart as they think.
lol! If only that poor lady waiting for her laundry had Jenna McCarthy's first edition Thesaurus to read while she waited for the power to come back on...
It's absolutely insane and unbelievable that this wibbly wobbly excuse holds any water. How is this real? So the weather was weathering, but wasn't someone just messing with the weather in an un-Godly way? Maybe blocking out the sun in the UK wasn't such a good idea after all. 🤪
I hope more people are pissed from this and wake up to what is actually going on. This is a trial run to normalize the masses into this idea that the power grid can go down for entire countries. It's weird that this wasn't a thing until now huh? Just like all of the sudden how masks started to work against viruses...
Hahahaha! Seriously? No, but seriously, read Michael Shellenberger's SS yesterday--perfectly explaining the facts and mechanics of the lunacy of renewables!
Thank God this happened; it was just a matter of time. Now, the "people" have to wake up to the realities of the bullshit "renewables!"
A blessing in disguise!
Like the 2021 snowstorms in Texas that blanketed the solar panels and slogged down the windmills. Power was out for days, people with no way to get water or food.
I’d be throwing a brick through the glass door of the washing machine to get my favorite jeans out 😜
Yes. It’s a “ wibbly-wobbly timey- wimey”thing…
not being a consumer of the daily hysteria report known as the corporate news, this is the first I've heard of all this bruhaha.
wondering how their solar energy is gonna work out after they dim the sun with inorganic particles... back in the day, 'better living thru chemistry' meant a whole other, more amusing thing ;)
(p.s. just shared the fact that Prince William wore a blue suit to the pope's nifty send-off, with my sis and BIL. got lots of 'uh, uh, uh...')
Oh the blue suit frothing…. Hahahaha
MSM nuts narrowed the image, thus leaving out the many shades of blue suits around President Trump. (Ever notice autocorrect can’t even bring up Trump after you type President. Only obumma and Biden. ) 😡
wow! never noticed that about auto fill thingie
There was a sea of blue suits in the pic I saw.
But Orange Man Bad for wearing one of them.
I heard it from my hubbs whilst consuming dinner last night.
He reads a lot: finds unbelievable stories - like this one
Cash is king!
A handful of junk silver might not hurt if things go even further.
100%
I have a second home in Spain and am due back to the U.S. in early May. I experienced the blackout yesterday and was relieved to wake up with the power back on. My computer hasn't been so lucky however. It's still not connecting to the hardwired system we installed. I am grateful for the Iphone's hotspot.
It actually felt creepy, once we learned that the entire country was without electricity. It felt quite different from the periodic power outages in Oregon. Of course the scariest thing was a possible forthcoming attack on Spain but cooler heads prevailed as my husband reassured me that all would be well. It's so nice when he happens to be right. Another concern was that America would immediately be blamed. Fortunately they found a more hated guy to blame initially - apparently Putin remains #1 on the most hated list.
I have witnessed a troubling and dramatic change in the attitudes of my expat friends however, who hail from around the globe. Prior to the tariffs, this international community was non judgemental, happy to chat about world issues, no blame or accusations. Over the last month however, people are willing to trash talk Trump with complete abandon. I always felt that post Covid, I had left behind any political division when coming here and enjoyed interesting discussions and different cultural attitudes and beliefs. I suspect once the tariffs impacted their countries financial situation and their savings accounts, all bets were off apparently. It's been quite unpleasant. All my friends know that I didn't vote for Trump but that doesn't seem to matter. I never would have imagined, in my wildest dreams, that I'd feel compelled to defend the man.
Friends who live off the grid, in a small cortijo up on the mountain, were unscathed by the blackout. They are 100% on solar and it's always sunny in this part of Spain. We're reported to have 320 days of sunshine here. I always questioned the feasibility of living off the grid but this experience certainly helped me to realize that having an additional power source would be helpful.
Will we ever know what caused this disruption? I suspect not. Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I believe the people in the know will definitely figure out who is responsible for this drama and chaos. Will this information be made available to the general public? No reason whatsoever to believe that will be the case.
When we built our retirement home here in east Texas two years ago I installed a 20kW back-up generator. Excellent investment as the power went out for about a week last year (in the middle of a hot summer), we stayed cool and didn't lose anything in the freezers. Neighbors lost hundreds of dollars worth of food. The generator is expensive to run 24/7, I'm guessing around $40 a day. I'm now researching a battery system (Tesla Wall?) to power the place so I can shut down the generator for a portion of the day.
I foresee more blackout/brownout incidents with the power grid in the future. Everyone went to college but what we really need is more electricians, plumbers, HVAC people.
Ooooh! I hope you'll share what you learn... Texas is scary since we have our own grid (could be good or bad, I suppose...)
Another update/perspective as “the experts “ remain baffled. Electricity must be a new field of expertise for them.
https://www.public.news/p/the-spanish-government-is-lying-about
But politicians (ie:protectors of global wealth) are always ready to jump in and save the day.
It’s the only state that can secede bc of its power grid. West of the Rockies the grid is tied together as is East of the Rockies.
Electrical Engineer father told me this
Yes, please let us know what's a better solution than a generator.
TDS is rife in Canada 🇨🇦 too... lovely people that I know swallow the media line unquestioningly... it's very sad 😔
Arrived in Madrid from Portland Monday right in the middle of the power outage.
Check out Michael Schellenbeger on SS. Great and thorough explanation.
Best
Can you provide a link please?
https://substack.com/@shellenberger/p-162341800
Do you know what the 2nd most abundant liquid on the planet is after water?? It's OIL. Now why would that be if it's so bad for the environment?!
I don't believe in climate change anymore but you know what the MSM does not talk about... POLLUTION. Why don't they get the micro plastics out of everything?
They should protest in Spain & Portugal & tell them to cut the crap and go back reliable methods. But they won't:-(
You reminded me of a question that so far no one has answered: plastic bags have been banned in New York state. Yet, almost everything in the grocery stores is encased in plastic. My personal favorite is the plastic bags on a roll to put your fresh vegetables in. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm 61 and started having to use scissors to break into everything I buy for awhile now since it's all encased in plastic. But yeah, let's get rid of the plastic grocery bags, which actually are helpful. And not the gross, thick stuff that things DON'T need to be encased in, which can cut and hurt you.
Plus the clerks put too much into the reusable bags which makes them way too heavy.
It’s not just the reusable bags that they overfill. Even when you’re paying a nickel for a paper bag, the clerks seem to be playing a game of Tetris, trying to fit as much in each bag as they can. I imagine they’re trying to make sure you don’t feel cheated by having to pay for an extra bag. I always tell them I’m too old to carry such heavy bags. I’m more than happy to pay for an extra bag, so please don’t overfill them.
On the other hand, I remember back when the flimsy plastic bags were standard. I’d buy say 10 items at the store and find them bagged into 6 different plastic bags when I got home. Why???
Walk down the aisles of any grocery store…plastic plastic plastic
Exactly! Yet, consumers can’t have plastic bags anymore, a necessary item for cleaning cat litter boxes. And in NY, stores charge 5 cents for paper bags which means you have to bring those seriously inconvenient reusable bags which, by the way, plastic bags are too. SMH
In CA, during the covid hoax, they stopped letting us use our own bags for groceries. Of course there was no scientific reason behind it, or even basic logic. So plastic bags came back, after they had been banned for a couple of years. So stupid.
We went through the same thing: personal bags were banned! We could only use the store’s plastic bags. But we had already touched the groceries we were buying so what difference did bag ownership mean especially when it was the employee who was doing the bagging!!!! The contradictions! 🤣
Same in Texas! The Trader Joe's cashier couldn't touch your bags (but COULD touch every single item YOU JUST TOUCHED). They'd scan everything, put it into a new cart and then send you outside to these ridiculously small, high-top tables to bag your stuff. IT. WAS. INSANE.
The arrows on the floor!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
yet another convid lunacy that I forgot about. the ban on bringing your own bags. my former BFF was leaving her groceries under a blue light (to kill germs, lol) in her pantry over night. she even send ME one of the hand-held wand ones. pretty sure it went, unopened, into a Salvation Army donation box. ;)
Too many items?? Need a “plastic” cart for everything??
100%
Even the sodas are packaged in boxes wrapped in plastic. Good thing they have giant plastic bags to put all the plastic trash into.
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I agree with you. I live in Spain (I'm Scottish), and mass protests against solar and windmill energy won't happen. I live within a mile or so from the largest photovoltaic power plant in Europe. Did that help us yesterday when the power grid failed? No! Oh, the construction phase of the power plant provided lots of jobs for local people - for a while, but that isn't sustainable. Do we get free electricity, living next to Europe's largest photovoltaic power plant? No. Should we? Hmm... :-)
Exactly!!
These ppl are so full of horse potatoes 🥔 (poop for all you none country folks) climate chg BS is just that BS! Stop believing the lies!!
Might have influenced climate change more than horse poop.
https://judithcurry.com/2024/07/05/hunga-tonga-volcano-impact-on-record-warming/
Some years ago I read a very thorough scientific analysis on the phenomenal amounts of toxic gases, minerals, etc., that come from volcanic activity beneath the oceans. The estimates completely dwarfed/negated any measurable effects from "Anthropomorphic" sources. It is only because these leftist clowns can't see, smell, or touch these natural atmospheric impacts, that they haven't figured out how to tax it's impacts. Essentially, we (humans) account for comparatively "nothing" in atmospherics.
Western NC got a taste of the no-electricity-no-phone-no-water lifestyle after Helene. Most people without electricity for about 3 weeks. No running water for a month, then the running water was only for flushing for another month. It is now nasty tasting from the chemicals used to clean up the water from the reservoir that was destroyed and rebuilt. Best to be prepared!
I am wondering why California - who already has rolling brownouts and blackouts - thinks they can handle 40 million electric vehicles juicing up all day every day. Isn't that what they've proposed as "clean energy" and the mandate for 2035?
Can we finally realize that the people in power are complete idiots? And that our system is designed to put complete idiots with psychopathic personalities in charge?
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RIGHT???!!!! I mean SERIOUSLY…. One side of their (CA Government) is wanting us to cut back on electricity consumption ~ especially during set hours….yet out of the OTHER side of their mouths they want everyone to switch over to electric only vehicles!!!!
My best educated guess is that NO. There doesn’t seem to be much (okay, ANY!!) activity between the ears to ponder the insanity of this nonsense! As someone noted a while back, it’s all (oh gosh! Can’t think of it, when you’re acting as though it’s the politically correct thing to do…something I think like virtue signaling?)…by getting on this make believe “green” band wagon! If they even took a deeper dive into the batteries for these electric vehicles, they’d be aware of how ultimately HORRIFIC it is for the environment!
*SIGH*!!!
Pretty sure power lines have been hot before... Thinking Arizona? Death Valley? Houston? For that matter, Spain? Not buying this one. "Rare" atmospheric event: "It got hot??" OTOH, there does not seem to be any science-y way of saying "Truthfully, we EFFed up, big time." Bill Clinton really kicked civilization downward with his demonstrated proofs that "Distraction Works" because it quickly became the go-to for EFF-ups like him.
Or maybe WEFFED up?"
I used to live just west of Phoenix, AZ and our summers were 4-5 months of 100°F +++ days. Frequently, we’d be over 115° for weeks at a time. We had plenty of electricity. Even with everyone’s central AC kicked into overdrive. Europe’s excuse is a bunch of bollux! We’re now in the White Mountains in NE AZ. Much cooler here attend 6500ft. but just as much sunshine. We’ve been running on solar with zero disruptions even throughout the winter. We have a grid connection, but have rarely ever used it.
Reader's Digest (Readers' Digest?) once had a "Life in These United States" short about a Phoenix woman who when asked what they do when daytime temps hit 110 replied, "Oh, then, we just zip out of our skins and sit around in our bones!"
And you’re still freaking sweltering. I hated it there. From June through September life outdoors is impossible. I used to wake up at 4:00AM to walk my dogs and it was still 100 degrees! Insufferable. I couldn’t wait to leave. I’m an outdoors person and hated that for four months a year you went from your house to your car to your office to the store and back home. My animals hated it, also. If it’s cold you can always get warm. But when it’s 115 degrees all you can do is stay indoors. How miserable.
Curiously, up north, as an old Texan, I pine for the days when "you didn't have to pay to get warm, and you could get cool for free by stepping into some shade." I had kin in Phoenix and I absolutely know that "Phoenix shade" is just a darker version of full sun.
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It can get hot in Spain in summer, but not usually at the end of April. In July or August I've seen temperatures rise to 45 Celsius (113F), and that's hot, but yesterday it was only in the mid 20s at best, about 23 (74F) where I live. :-)
A few really hot days every summer would be tolerable. But in the Phoenix area it hits 100 degrees in mid-April and by June it’s 110+…for the next three months.
I'm from Scotland, currently living in southwest Spain. I've only been to Arizona once, and that was in 1995. It was in April, and temperatures were in the mid 70s to 80F at that time. We had a great time, saw some great things, and have happy memories! :-)
Yes, 18 years ago when we moved out here the summers were decidedly less oppressive. The past 8-9 years it has gotten progressively worse. The population has exploded to over 5 million. They have torn out all the trees and grass replacing with apartments, homes, and shopping centers. Blacktop, concrete and asphalt. It ll just exacerbates the oppressive heat. It literally never cools down. Staying in the 100’s even overnight. Last week Phoenix was given the honor of being named the city with the worst air quality in the nation. Why people are flocking there is beyond me.
This is why I don’t worry about CBDCs coming any time soon.
Spoiler alert: a decade ago we stupidly put solar panels on our roof. If I knew then what I know now: northern PA has a lot of cloudy days, the panels are not recyclable, they have only a 25 year lifespan, and the payoff is 12 years.
Here in AZ, where we have 350 days of sunshine a year, our solar panels power our entire house and barn. Another set power our well and guest house. We have connection to the grid but have rarely used it. In PA, where I used to live, they can’t be worth the investment. (Ours were already here when we bought our little ranch so even better!)
We are well north of Pittsburgh which has 203 cloudy days per year on average. In my defense, I thought we were doing the right thing when we bought the panels.
I have friends out here in the Phoenix area who regret getting solar. They spend $25,000, and sometimes more, to have it installed. It’ll never pay for itself. It doesn’t actually save them anything. Big regrets for some even here in the land of sunshine.
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Is that 25 years based on real life or a "model?"
I suspect it’s real life 25 years or not long after. That’s the length of the guarantee at any rate.
Depends on if it hails big stuff.
I always get nervous during a hail storm.
Jenna, Even the cowboys on the range had coffee. I plan to stay caffeinated!!
Got my French press and my fire pit 🪵🔥☕️ with you!
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Michael Shellenberger's post from yesterday on his Substack "Public" is worth reading. He explains that over reliance on renewables is what caused the massive power outage. I tried to copy the link but for some reason the tech Gods are not letting me paste it in this comment.
Someone posted in on Jeff Childer’s stack :)
It’s paywalled, unfortunately. Maybe if a bunch of subscribers asked him to un-paywall it? 🙏🏼
Ugh, that's frustrating.
Jenna— I shouldn't laugh at those unfortunate Europeans, but your post really was funny.
You ask, does peanutbutter go bad? Yeah, it can get sort of gummy past its expiration date. Best for long term calorie storage is raw honey— that can last for decades, maybe even longer.
Seems the cash-strapped Venezuelans led the way when they started using bars of soap and bottles of booze. Just a thought that crossed my mind...
I once read they found honey in The Pyramids that was still good.
If you open a jar of honey, keeping it in a dark cabinet slows it from turning to sugar.
^^ ditto with ghee, as long as its in a decently cool place and not in direct light.
I didn’t even know there was a power outage! Ha! Ha! Ha! Sometimes a day without news, is pretty darn nice.
I depend on Jenna for my news, thank you.
Ok Jenna, I’m not EVER forgetting this line, like NEVER!! “The fire was warming your toes & you brought s’mores for everyone!” Priceless… ❤️
Excellent humor! What a lovely mess humanity is making!