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April 30, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Is Anyone Still in the Dark About “Net Zero” After Yesterday’s Blackout?
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And it is benighted, but so was Spain and Portugal, quite literally, and also because of their politicians.
A problem with the European electrical system.
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
Now, a lot of people, was this a hack?
Was this, it wasn't an EMP?
No, it was the electrical system going down.
And they did it to themselves, just like Texas did it to themselves about four years ago.
And across several countries, no EMP, no hack, just politician-assisted suicide of the West, which is happening everywhere.
45 years after the first Earth Day, this is what we've got.
A major power outage reported in Spain, Portugal, including their capitals, and stretching over into some other countries as well.
It hit several regions of the country.
Just after noon yesterday, They said it was due to a problem with the European electrical system.
Yeah, they destroyed it.
On purpose.
Just six days after they announced that they had achieved net zero.
So everybody's saying, yeah, net zero.
Net zero electricity.
Net zero everything.
And we know that's where this is all headed.
And we know that this is not a workable solution.
Folks, I was involved in the first lawsuit against the first renewable energy mandates in the United States, in Colorado.
And, you know, I worked with a group.
I was doing the videos for them, explaining what was going on as they were raising funds for the legal challenge against Colorado.
They lost.
We tried to get the data from Michael Mann.
We lost.
But you've got to try.
And, you know, if we had won, that would have stopped this stuff.
If they had gotten the data, we could have shown what a fraud the guy was from the beginning, but they allowed him to keep it quiet.
Keep it secret.
Keep it safe, as Gandalf would say, right?
Because that's about the ring of power.
It's just a hockey stick, but it is their ring of power.
So, when we look at these renewable energy mandates, we always said it's not going to work.
It's going to take the grid down.
Well, here we are.
And this is now, I guess, about 15 years later.
And here's where we are.
The company said it was compelled to cut power in specific areas to stabilize the network.
It was not possible to make calls on mobile phone networks, though some apps were working.
The subway stopped working.
The airports were jammed as well.
You've got people there in the subway.
They're in the dark, right, as they're having to try to get the trains stopped.
They were locked inside the trains for quite some time.
Then they let them get out, and some of the people, they said, had to carry their luggage up 15 flights of steps.
That's pretty amazing, especially for elderly people.
So six days after celebrating 100% renewable power, Spain blames rare atmospheric phenomenon on the nation's largest blackout in history.
Yeah, they're still blaming CO2 on this, right?
CO2.
It's rare.
It's rare.
It's 0.04% of the atmosphere.
So I guess it's CO2's fault.
It was CO2's fault because of CO2 being rare.
They had to shut everything down.
And that's where they are now.
Six days ago, they celebrated Spain's national grid being operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time.
This wasn't just a Spanish blackout.
Of course, it shook the entire European grid.
None of this should have been a surprise.
As I said, the underlying physics have been understood for years.
The specific vulnerabilities have been spelled out repeatedly in technical warnings about this.
As the grid becomes faster and lighter and far more sensitive to disruptions, it spelled out a public warning as far back as 2017.
Political leaders promised that renewable energy would provide stable, affordable power in practice, and yet it didn't, did it?
And a lot of people passing around this theme of The Simpsons, going back, they said a couple of years ago, that they predicted this.
I'll show you the clip, and then I'll tell you what's really true about it.
The Simpsons predicted that April 30th, 2025, is the day everything comes to a stop.
A simple coincidence, or a warning we shouldn't ignore.
In a long-forgotten episode from 1998, titled The Last Day of Springfield, a massive blackout throws the entire city into darkness.
No lights.
No cars.
The city is completely frozen.
Even Homer's nuclear power plant shuts down.
Just before everything cuts out, a digital calendar flashes one last time.
April 30th.
Professor Frink runs around screaming and flailing his arms.
It's the end, while Kent Brockman stares straight into the camera with a chilling smile.
Back to the Stone Age.
But it doesn't stop there.
In a 2013 episode, Mr. Burns drops an eerie line.
The end of energy has already been scheduled.
Too many coincidences.
Hold on.
2007 episode, Lisa holds a book titled The Last Day of Civilization, and on the cover, the date, April 30th, 2025.
A global blackout, a full collapse of the internet, or maybe something even worse.
Subscribe to learn more.
Yeah, clickbait.
Clickbait.
No, the Simpsons did not predict a blackout on April 30th, 2025.
By the way, that's tomorrow.
It wasn't yesterday, but, you know, that's tomorrow.
By the way, tomorrow will be my 70th birthday and my 2000th show.
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I started numbering the episodes a few months ago.
I didn't realize that.
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And we stop and think about it.
Truckers, farmers, small businessmen, these tariffs are going to be disastrous for that segment of the economy.
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So, yeah, it was...
The symptoms was not a thing.
But here's what really was a thing.
They talked about how there was oscillations in the grid.
And there's a reason for that.
And, you know, even though I got a degree in electrical engineering, I don't know anything about power transmission.
I did not want to go into that area at all.
And on Rumble, Doug Elug, thank you very much.
He said, let's fill the tank, hit the like button while we're at it, friends.
Thank you, David and Krubel.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
And thank you to Marty.
So, again, getting back to this, we have something, when I saw this, it said inertia.
I thought, is that a metaphorical term or is that a literal term about inertia?
Because then they mentioned something about generators.
I thought, so is this something that is real?
Yeah, it turns out it is real.
When you have power generated by sources that use large rotating turbines as generators, okay, so that'd be anything that burns fuel.
That would even include nuclear power that heats up water and turns the turbines and that type of thing.
Hydroelectric power.
So, hydroelectric, coal, oil, gas, nuclear, all of those.
You're essentially turning a generator, with the exception of hydroelectric, you're burning something in order to get the...
Generator to turn.
You're creating steam or whatever, but they're using moving water.
That's not the case with windmills or solar panels.
And I thought, not even windmills?
Because windmills are turning.
No, they don't have the mass.
Because the mass is distributed over a lot of different windmills, and so they don't have this inertia in the generators.
So I don't know, maybe, I hope you find that interesting.
I thought that was very interesting.
Something I didn't realize before.
And we stop and think about it.
As you start to get loads varying, you know, it goes up or it goes down suddenly, the demand varies.
Well, these generators that are generating the electricity, that electricity is going to feed back with electromagnetic feedback into these generators.
And their physical momentum, their inertia, is going to help to stabilize that.
Not so.
With wind and solar.
That does not happen with wind and solar.
And so that was the real issue.
By the way, they do have a, they have for the renewables, they have to work around this, they create synthetic inertia, they said.
Synthetic inertia for the wind turbines and for solar.
They try to do that.
And also, you know, battery storage systems.
You've got to try to...
So here again is an additional problem, an additional expense, because we've been forced into this technology without any time to adapt.
What I always have criticized the people pushing this Green New Deal for, oh, well, this is where we want to go.
And I want to go there now.
And we're not going to take the time to work out the technology.
We're just going to demand that you do it right now.
It's like, how insane is this?
And yet, isn't that what Trump is doing with the tariffs?
I want to have manufacturing in the United States.
Okay, well, we can agree with that goal.
But how do you get there?
How do you get there?
How do you pick which forms of manufacturing that you're going to subsidize or push?
I don't agree the government ought to subsidize or push things.
I don't think they ought to be able to pick the winners and the losers.
Just like I don't think that Biden ought to be able to say, well, everybody's going to drive electric vehicles now.
And you can't have even hybrids after a certain point in time.
You can't even have a mixture of internal combustion engines and electric.
No, everybody's going to go all electric.
Well, who made you God?
It's not in the Constitution.
You don't have that kind of power to dictate that stuff.
And yet, what Biden was doing and these politicians on the net zero side, Trump is doing as well.
He wants net zero imports.
And he just wants to get there right now.
Forget about the fact that we don't have any capability to create the kinds of magnets that are off of rare earth and everything.
The fact that China's got 98% of that.
Of course, China's got all the EV stuff as well.
But we're just going to go there right now.
We're not going to take time to strategically build up our rare earth mining and production and manufacturing.
No, we're just going to do it right now.
I know you're five years away from being able to do this, if you can do it.
But we're just going to do it right now.
And that's what they did with the environmental stuff, with all the green nonsense.
And so I don't know if they're aware of this problem.
And they know that they need to have synthetic inertia put into the grid.
Did they do it?
We'd go back and you look at Texas.
Massive subsidies to build infrastructure to take electricity from these remote areas where they're putting the windmills up and send them back to the rest of the grid.
Billions or tens of billions of dollars from Texas taxpayers to do that as they were shutting down fully functional and operational and clean.
Coal and oil power plants, they start spending massive amounts, these conservative Republicans in Texas, right?
For their pals.
And then what they decided was, well, it never gets that cold, we don't have to have anything that's going to make sure the windmills don't freeze, so they didn't put it in, and then we got some cold temperatures and the windmills froze.
Took down the grid.
Well...
People are looking at this, and it's like, well, they know about the inertia.
Did they try to cut corners and not put in the synthetic inertia?
Were they trying to go so fast that they didn't do that?
So, again, they want to try to mimic inertia so that they can ensure stability.
And so, you know, when demand exceeds supply, then it's going to be pulling on it, or you have more supply than demand.
That kind of inertia, going back and forth, Something that the generators help with.
But they don't get any help with the renewables.
And that's the crux of the issue here.
And so, we have instability.
We have uncertainty.
That's being designed into all of our infrastructure and all of our economic systems by the politicians who rule over us.
As a matter of fact, they said 15 gigawatts were lost from the grid within five seconds, something that has never happened before.
Well, why do you think that is?
Why do you think that is?
Spain's blackout wasn't just a technical failure.
It was a political and a strategic failure as well.
Or was it?
It certainly was a technical failure.
But was it a political and strategic failure?
Maybe their strategy is.
To sabotage the West.
I mean, these people are full on about deindustrialization.
It is a religion to them.
When you look at the UK, they are going out and literally digging up the gas lines, just ripping up, ripping them up out of the ground.
Because they want to make sure that nobody can have gas heat.
They can't cook with gas.
They can't heat with gas.
And so we're going to force you to buy these electric appliances.
And HVAC and all the rest of the stuff.
And we're even going to rip out the gas lines under the ground throughout the neighborhoods and streets.
They're de-industrializing.
It is not a political or strategic failure.
It is political and strategic policy to de-industrialize the West.
And folks, when we look at what happened with China, they were deliberately intertwined.
We gave them every kind of advantage.
We looked the other way as they used slave labor, intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, and then the Western governments handed them a price advantage on energy that is enormous, enormous,
and still building.
Because as the West is pulling down its energy supplies, China is continuing to build coal power plants.
That they don't even make an effort to clean.
Coal can be clean, but the coal in China and India is not required to be clean.
How's that for a global warming problem?
You take the two most populous countries and you tell them you don't have to clean up.
Crucially, comprehending problems of inertia or lack of it is a key to apportioning blame for this farce.
And that's where this article on Zero Hedge just doesn't get it.
It was designed.
This is what they want.
They want to destroy our infrastructure.
They want to destroy our manufacturing.
All of this is by design.
And just as I was saying, they want to go through and they want to rip out the gas line.
Small or medium-sized disturbances on the grid become very difficult to manage and can cascade into wider instability and outages when the grid is in low inertia condition.
Yet another reason that I previously didn't know about to oppose the greening of...
Of the infrastructure.
And so this, the real farce, the real lie is for them to say that this is something else.
Rare atmospheric phenomenon.
It's truly ridiculous.
And then specifically they said extreme temperature variations.
Everything is going to be blamed on temperature variations even when that's not what it is.
A frequency drop.
Of 0.15 hertz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal.
Stop and think about that.
Right?
We're talking about 20 hertz.
That means 20 vibrations per second, right?
And so you're talking about something that vibrates about once every six seconds.
It varies about once every six seconds.
That was enough to take down the entire grid.
It's not a really fast variation.
And so their grid is 78% solar and wind.
78%.
Nuclear is 11.5%, and then there's just trace amounts of other things.
And that's their problem.
That's their problem.
No inertia from spinning generators.
So one person said, well, I'm in Spain, and trust me, the issue isn't the darkness.
No, payments are not possible without cash.
Nobody had any cash.
Saw massive lines, long lines of people trying to get cash out.
Did somebody tell them that the ATMs are not working because there's no power?
Go ahead and line up.
But nobody could do anything because everybody had transitioned over to a cashless society.
You want to get food?
Sorry.
You want to just hang out and have a drink at a bar and wait for this thing to end?
Sorry.
No cash.
No cash?
Can't play.
No food, no transportation.
Very limited internet.
No clue as to when it'll actually be resolved.
They said yesterday afternoon.
But now they're gradually getting it back online.
Parts of France also affect it, even extending into Belgium.
So most people don't have cars.
Oh, by the way, if you've got a car, are you going to be able to fill it up with gas if there's no electricity?
No.
Are you going to be able to charge your electric car?
Of course not.
And then take a look at the dead trains.
You know, people get stranded.
This is all traffic lights out, of course.
And this is not the best picture that I had.
I didn't get the best picture into the deck.
Somebody did an aerial shot of the city of Lisbon, I think it was, or it might have been Madrid.
And everything was gridlock everywhere.
But if you're on a train, this is what you wind up.
Trains stop.
Maybe out in the middle of nowhere, like here.
And there they are, in the middle of nowhere.
Everybody get out of the train.
We got on the train, everything was fine, but then everything went dark.
These are people in the subway.
Stuck on the subway train for 20 minutes until a staff member opened the doors manually.
And as I showed you before, you know, you've got...
It was this one right here.
They opened the door manually, and they got 15 flights of steps to go up to to get their baggage to the airport.
So again, Spain, Portugal, France, parts of Belgium, according to the latest information.
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