Spain has wind farms on much of the high ground.
Huge windmills, each of them that can apparently power 50.000 homes.
We have solar farms almost everywhere.
They are supposed to be able to power a city.
So what the fuck happened yesterday, 28th April?
At around 1pm power went out for the entire Iberian peninsula.
There was no Internet, not even cellular coverage and no mobile signal.
I was working in an area which rarely has power cuts, but I decided to drive into the town 20 minutes away to pick up a signal there.
At this point nobody had any idea of the size of the area without power.
Of course, everything was off in the town.
Shops were closing along with offices, bars and restaurants.
I continued to drive to the city where my warehouse is.
The electric security gate was open, thankfully, but there were no staff.
They had been sent home early with the hope that they could manage to get through the huge traffic jams caused by not having any traffic lights.
There was one guy in the warehouse, able to work as a few of the electric fork lifts still had power.
But he wasn’t there to work.
He had been told to stay behind to guard the place as there was no way of shutting the security gates and the alarm systems were not working.
I will have to pay him extra for that.
He was under instructions to sleep there if necessary.
Loaded by a forklift with the stuff I needed I headed home.
Electric cars were abandoned on the side of the main roads and motorways.
Fuel cars were abandoned too as they had run out of petrol.
Petol pumps in the service stations were not working.
Impossible to call anyone for assistance.
People were trying to hitch a lift by the side of the roads.
Fire engines were everywhere.
Going to rescue people stuck in lifts.
It was fucking mayhem.
I managed to get home and Mrs Cunter had thoughtfully made me some sandwiches while there was still daylight.
We sat on our terrace in candlelight with a warm bottle of wine.
Everything in the freezer was fucked and will need to be chucked out.
Just after midnight and about 11 hours after the power cut, the lights came back on.
Nobody knows what caused the outage for 60 million people yesterday, but I just hope that these Just Stop Oil and the EV enthusiasts take note.
Although only an 11 hour disruption, getting things back to normal will take a week.
Greta Thunberg, you are a fucking cunt.
Nominated by The Artful Cunter.
It must have been like going back in time a hundred years, or living in modern day Africa.
I hope you did pay Pedro extra for staying on AC. I would have been pilfering office supplies myself.
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The good thing is that when it happens here, which it will, we won’t need electricity to execute Miligoon, pack a bacon sandwich into his gob and stick his stupid head on a pike at the Tower of London.
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11 hours? What a lightweight. In my part of hillbilly Spain it didn’t come on properly until 11.30, nearly 24 hours. The fridge and freezer stayed cold, plenty to eat on gas cooker, cold beers and coke for the rum. Read a book by candlelight and went for a walk. Back to the good old days.
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Smaller scale retail power outages are quite frequent near me. “We only take cash,” is what I will be told, sure for the moment anyway I always carry some.
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Scam,scam,scam,scam….it makes it more fun if you obviously hum it to the spam ditty … anyway scam it is on a grand ⚖️….stock up on the 🕯️ you are going to need them 😩 …oh how we looted 🤪
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Let’s see, wind and solar needs wind and sun.
A sudden generation drop in Granada, followed by others then a massive grid dump, sounds like doggy wiring 😂
We on the other hand have a robust grid, sadly it will be deliberately sabotaged by the switch over to wind as the primary generation source unless Mad Ed can be stopped.
North Sea wind kicking out 30 gw and the wind suddenly stops – clunk!
Open the mines, build coal fire power station and frack the fucking gas, that will give 50 years to crack on with building nuclear power stations capable of a steady 60 gw of constant ‘clean’ energy
Oh yes, ban the sale of electric cars
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I nominate you as PM Sick …
You got a damn good plan there.
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I have other policies as well, stop the boats (literally), cut benefits and deport all illegals, cut foreign aid to zero, scrap all net zero bollocks and last but not least hang all the human rights lawyers (after a fair trial of course).
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Anyone selling battery powered radios, could have made a fortune!
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Wasn’t it those pesky Russians that caused it?
That seems to be the media line.
Heaven forbid it could be something like solar and wind not doing as promised.
Or too many people and a decrepit system as was probably behind the Heathrow outage, seeing as they’re claiming it’s still unexplained.
If you want energy on a massive scale, sooner or later you’ve got to burn something.
The eco loons know this is the truth, but will never admit it.
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No shit! .. the Mail went with :
“How Spain’s blackout could have been a nuclear weapons test in space: Evidence of attack as experts warn ‘cataclysm’ can knock out entire grid in seconds – and Russia may be to blame”.
With a paywall for good measure. Cunts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14664497/Spain-blackout-nuclear-weapons-test-space-Russia-blame.html
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Coming to the UK soon enough.
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Absolutely, courtesy of that adenoidal cunt ‘Mad Ed’ Millipede. That nut job is fucking dangerous.
Afternoon all.
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I think that it was some sort of experiment.
How will people cope without electricity and information?
The answer is, not very well.
It’s not just the obvious things like traffic chaos caused by no lights.
That can be managed by the police directing traffic.
In every city there are a huge amount of high rise apartments.
The majority of these have code access.
People couldn’t get into their own homes.
There is nowhere to park on any city streets.
The many apartment blocks have underground parking, accessed by electric doors and gates.
There were cars blocking every road, unable to enter and with nowhere else to go.
Natural gas for cooking is not a big thing here.
We have barbecues using gas bottles but who wants to risk cooking in the dark.
Besides that, it was a cold night.
Restaurants that were still open were mainly the Chinese ones.
They do use gas, but you could only pay in cash.
No cash?
The fucking ATM’s don’t work.
It must have been a coordinated effort to switch off the electricity for 60.000.000 people in 3 countries.
There is no way that there is a single point where the entire electricity supply can be cut, along with Internet access and cellular phone signals.
We still have no idea what caused it.
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Miligoon would have it that a breakdown in the renewable energy supply is because of our over reliance on gas.
Work that one out if you can.
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Thought you fuckin onion munchers loved candlelight?
Candlelight and gyppo playing acoustic guitar,
Charge the tourists a fortune for it!
Romantic.
You get 24hrs of romance youd think the world had ended.
What do you want electric lights for anyway?
Nowt to see.
Dust, tumbleweed and cacti.
Wasted on you electricity.
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Ps
For the duration of your powercut i had every light in the house on.
Vacuum cleaner plugged in, radio on, telly on,
Fridge doors left open,
Floodlight in garden on, the lot.
Serves you right for sending a armada against us.
ENGLAND, ENGLAND!! 🏴
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They have all the Jamon joints hanging up everywhere, plenty to eat without cooking and tapas, surely they can live without paella for a day.
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We all could create our own wind farms if we ate enough baked beans.
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I wonder how many people were sharpening axe heads thinking finally the zombie apocalypse has happened.
From some reports that I saw there was obviously confusion and traffic chaos but no mass disorder – let me know if this wasn’t the case Artful, we know that if this had been in other parts of the world people would have been looting essential supplies like flatscreen TV’s and Air Jordans.
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London and Birmingham to name a few..
Utterly lawless savagery within a few hours of an outage.
Good.
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I live out in the sticks so obviously nothing here but overall we didn’t seem to get those problems
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Digression:
I believe the Everton Toffee Lady made an appearance at Goodson Park, for the last ever last game in the stadium. I was fortunate to catch one when United played there in the sixties. I kept it has a souvenir for years, don’t know what happened to it. Hope nobody ate it and made themselves ill, similar to everyone whose going to Old Trafford these days.
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It’s quite odd how “fast and loose” some countries play with the single most vital source of power that we have quite rightly become dependent upon.
The generation of electrical power has transformed the world yet Modern Cunts want to roll the dice by using fucking Chinese windmills..
That’ll end well.
As our Great Leader President Trump would say “Fuck Around and Find Out”.
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Carnage when they start here 🤦. Chuck Millipede on the bonfire 🔥🔥
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We could have a very solution in this country.
Bring back the treadmill and modernise it.
Treadmill ➡️ Dynamo ➡️ huge capacitors.
Long banks of enormous treamills, faaaahsands on ’em.
Every single immigrant has to ‘volunteer’ for 8 hrs a day, 7 days a week for 6 months until they’re deported with an accompanying kick up the arse.
England would have almost free electricity, no stabbings/muggings and the indigenous winners of raffles would be allowed to employ liberal use of the cat o’ nine tails against any lollygaggers.
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Sounds like a cunning plan…
Your post reminded me to go check if there had been a hint of honesty added to the London 5-stabbing stabfest story at the 4:30AM ‘music event’ 2 nights ago, but god damn it – wouldn’t you know – some other currently dead guy took a blade in London at 03:30 LAST night, and now all the non-news is focusing on not giving any hint of details about that one instead, despite the knifeman being at large.
One remains unenlightened on either matter.
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