Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 10/06/2025 12:07 am, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 10:49:13 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
 

On 6/9/25 01:15, Joe Gwinn wrote:

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The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout, Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street
Journal, 3 June 2025 issue, page A13.
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Here is a gift link.  No paywall, but they will insist on trying to
persuade you to subscribe.
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.<https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-physics-behind-the-spanish-blackout-solar-and-wind-power-unstable-grid-8be54b2a?st=VUVUMR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink>
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Joe

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That doesn't tell us anything new, and it does so poorly, too.
Clearly written by someone with no technical background.

 Lomborg is not an engineer, and we are not his target audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg

His approach is to simply accept that CO2 in the atmosphere is an
existential threat, and proceed directly to what it would take to even
move the needle.   He takes no position concerning climate change.

Pull the other leg.

His arguments boil down to physical and economic practicality.

He gets paid for opinions that suit the climate change denial propaganda machine while misrepresenting the science sufficiently only just enough to keep them happy. It keep him well paid - a very practical advantage.

As I've said in prior postings, bring a big calculator.

And a deep enough understanding to be able to work how Lomborg fudges the science.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney