Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 10/06/2025 12:11 am, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 03:11:53 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 6/8/2025 4:15 PM, 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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It's amazing that we've never had such widespread outages BEFORE renewables
came along!
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Oh... wait.  No.
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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...

 That's a pretty big jump.  I don't recall seeing any such thing, but
feel free to do some googling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
specialises in producing what looks very like climate change denial propaganda while appearing to get the science more or less right. It's a subtle performance, but still mendacious.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney