Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 9/06/2025 8:11 pm, Don Y wrote:

On 6/8/2025 4:15 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

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

 It's amazing that we've never had such widespread outages BEFORE renewables
came along!
 Oh... wait.  No.
 Wanna wager as to the author's opinions on gun rights, transgender issues,
religion, etc?  Glad to know it was an "opinion" piece and one not based
in fact...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
is well known, and his opinions are based on very carefully selected facts. They do seem to have been selected in a way that keeps the fossil carbon extraction industry happy.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney