by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
Last week, almost in the middle of our make-up vidchat on Monday, reports began to filter through the chatroom that there was a widespread and extensive electrical power blackout across Europe. This came on the heels of a blog I had written the previous week about Chinese electrical transformers that had been discovered to contain backdoors. This in an of itself would not be all that surprising, because electrical equipment like that should have some means of being shut down if emergency circumstances require it. But the impression conveyed by those stories was that the “backdoors” in question were more along the lines of “secret passageways in the walls” than publicly known access. The implication was clear to many people: China’s government was up to its usual tricks and could shut down the West’s power grids any time it chose to do so, forgetting all the while that China’s chief trading partner was precisely the West. But one must suppose that power-mad greedy grifters are capable of anything. Just witness the contemporary history of the U.S.A.
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But there are stories that are now beginning to circulate on what may have happened. When the phenomenon first occurred, the public story being circulated as to its cause was that there was “an upper atmospheric disturbance.” This led many to suspect some sort of sudden solar activity, but that did not appear to be forthcoming. Then we were told of “sudden oscillations” that began to appear a few hours before the actual black. (This story sared by many of you, this version by E.E. with our thanks):
What caused the Spain and Portugal blackouts? Experts say incident is a warning
Firstly, note that the blackout covered virtually all of the Iberian peninsula, and it needs to be said: digital “currency” advocates take note :
Millions across Spain and Portugal were left in the dark on Monday as an unprecedented power outage brought much of the Iberian peninsula to a standstill.
It took almost 23 hours for Spain’s electrical grid to declare that systems were back up and running as normal, with the outage affecting traffic lights, street lamps, payment terminals, and screens. Domestic and international transport was badly hit with metro systems grinding to a halt and communication networks faltering, leaving many wondering what had gone wrong. Hundreds of flights were canceled at airports across Spain and Portugal.
So then we got the “solar power usage plunge for five minutes” explanation:
The issue has been narrowed to two separate incidents of power generation loss in the south west within seconds of each other that caused instability in the electrical systems and then an immediate disconnection from the French network for almost an hour.
In a span of just five minutes, between 12.30pm and 12.35 pm local time on Monday, solar PV generation plunged by more than 50 per cent. A sudden outage saw the equivalent of 60 per cent of demand in Spain drop out within five seconds.
Mr Sanchez said: “We will find out what happened in those five seconds.”
And that, of course, explains exactly nothing. Not to be bested on the “nonsense-as-explanations” front, the Portuguese electrical power authorities gave us the “atmospheric extreme temperature fluctuations causing extreme oscillations” explanation:
Meanwhile, Portugal‘s operator, REN (Redes Energéticas Nacionais), initially suggested a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” in Spain, involving extreme temperature variations, could have caused vibrations in high-voltage lines.
Spain agreed:
Experts say a proper investigation will take time – and that the cause remains uncertain. Spain’s grid operator, Red Eléctrica de España (REE), spoke of a “very strong oscillation in the electrical network” that led to the country’s disconnection from the wider European power system.
But a Chinese professor at the University of Cardiff was not buying, and said it was nonsense, unless of course there were factors like high winds and an extending case of Nuttyfornia-style anomalies with the power grid:
But many experts are sceptical of those claims.
“I am not familiar with this term,” Dr Jianzhong Wu, professor of multi-vector energy systems at University of Cardiff, said. “It is not widely used or frequently encountered in power system engineering.
“‘Induced atmospheric vibration’ could mean unusual physical movements of power lines caused by rapid and extreme changes in atmospheric conditions, such as temperature shifts or localised weather phenomena,” he explains.
“These vibrations can alter the electrical properties of transmission lines or trigger protective mechanisms designed to prevent damage, leading to unexpected disconnections. Alternatively, it could refer to unusual changes in electricity demand and generation caused by rapid atmospheric shifts.”
Dr Wu says there isn’t enoughh information available to make an assessment on the cause.
But a Spanish criminal court wasn’t having any of that either:
