The joke was created in Spain. They did the South Park image in fact. At least they made it 80 % of the way that, I suppose. Before they complete” Mystery of the Urinal Deuce,” I believe there will only be one or two discoveries about the Great Iberian Blackout.
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Every effort to explain different treasures, like who did 9/11, with some complicated conspiracy theory, in the tenth year classic instance often comes down to the same conclusion:” And it’s Muslims.
The mystery of the Great Iberian Blackout ( Plus Bits of France ) was followed by this.
When the blackout first appeared, all that the authorities were eager to do was say that they thought it wasn’t due to a cyberattack. My first thought was to soon know if cyberattackers were to responsible, just because some Euroauthority claimed it wasn’t.  ,
A cyberattack, even if some Euroauthority claimed it, didn’t make much sense on rapid reflection, though. If Russia or China had developed a new cyber-weapon that had simultaneously destroy a number of nations, they wouldn’t spend it on Spain and Portugal, especially no while things were at peace. Some resources are kept secret until you need them, and you must never pass them on to next- or third-tier rivals.  ,
We didn’t know about it until their army is swarming Taiwan’s beaches and we are sitting in the dark with our canned goods if China may turn off our lamps.  ,
I’ll leave that out.  ,
A more well-known idea, similar to the one that destroyed signals in 1859, has already been rejected. The Journal reported today that” no significant increases in the electron flow were reported in the last week, and observations remained significantly below the 10 MeV alert level typical of a small solar storm.”
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Another idea claimed that a solar power surge hit more quickly than gas generators may wind down to prevent a grid-shattering load, which I may be oversimplifying.
After studying what was happening in the energy lines, Michael Shellenberger‘s hypothesis suggested a sudden power decline.
” A continent-wide blackout appears to have been moments away ] from,” wrote Shellenberger. Additionally, he added that” the typical working frequency for Europe’s energy grid is 50.00 Hz, kept within a very strong margin of 0.1 Hz.” Everything above 0. 2 Hz causes significant crisis actions.
Europe” may have experienced a system-wide cascading blackout” if the speed had dropped only another 0.3 % to below 49.5 Hz.
Europe would likely be blaming Islamists at that point. Or the Russians. Or the Chinese. They would be blaming anyone but those who refused to update the grid in Spain to accommodate the greater variability in which wind and solar power, which combined made up 80 % of the peninsula’s power output before the whole island went black, refused to do so.  ,
Helena Horton, an environmental journalist for the Guardian, came this close to blaming renewable energy while also making some serious handwaving to deceive the paper’s generally left-wing readers. A senior European power analyst told the paper,” The nature and magnitude of the interruption make it unlikely that the amount of biofuels was the cause,” adding that the Spanish system is frequently not subject to very high volumes of such creation.
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However, the Spanish grid operator is quoted as saying that it was “very possible” that one of the causes of the sudden loss of solar power, similar to the one Shellenberger discussed above.  ,
Very, very possible, right? You’re 80 % of the way to executing the South Park adage, go through it all the way.
Thanks, Amazon; Tariff transparency might backfire a lot.
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