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May 1, 2025 - The David Knight Show
16:15
The Grid Reset? Green Grifters Pivot After Spanish Grid Blackout
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The aftermath of this situation in Europe.
And hopefully there's going to be an awakening based on this.
As Michael Schellenberger said, all of Europe appears to have been just seconds away from a continent-wide blackout.
See if you can pull this thing up, because he's got a chart there that shows the dip.
And it truly is amazing.
It dipped down 0.3%.
It went from 50 hertz, which is, you know, we have a 60 hertz system here in the United States where, you know, the electricity, the alternating current is transmitted at a frequency of 60 hertz.
And they changed it.
This goes back to all the, what was the name of that movie?
Current Wars or something like that, about the fight between...
Tesla and Westinghouse and Edison and all of them as to whether they were going to do direct current or alternating current.
I can't remember what that movie was.
It was excellent.
I really enjoyed that.
But, you know, you can go back and do your own research in the history and adjust the movie.
But more or less, it was an interesting competition as to whether or not they're going to have direct current or alternating current.
And of course, with alternating current, you can step the voltage up.
Super, super high.
So for the same amount of power, you have very low current, and that means that you have low line losses, because the line losses that you're going to have are going to be related not to the voltage that is transmitted along it, but the actual current that is running against the resistance of the line.
So anyway, so we have alternating current.
They alternate the current at a frequency of 50 hertz.
Here, they want to keep it within 0.1 hertz of 50 hertz.
That's a very, very tight tolerance.
Now, they've never had problems doing that in the past.
Because in the past, all the power has been generated by rotating turbines, generating the power, whether you're talking about hydroelectric or nuclear or if you're burning some fuel, like coal, oil.
Gas, anything like that.
So that's never been a problem until they got solar and wind.
And even with wind, they don't have enough inertia in the windmill to actually do this.
So they had to try to come up with some kind of a synthetic inertia.
There were a lot of people who were warning them that this was going to be a problem.
Six days after they were able to go full net zeroes, I talked about yesterday, the...
They created net zero.
And then for six days they had it.
And then on the seventh day, the grid rested for several hours because it was out of tolerance.
So they said at that threshold, what happens is, you know, when the thing drops again, if it had gone, that went down 0.2 hertz from where it needed to be.
If it had gone down just a tiny bit more.
To 0.3 hertz.
Then there would have been a cascading blackout throughout the entire European grid.
At that threshold, he says, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants and collapse accelerates.
It's disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred.
He said renewables don't risk blackouts, said the media.
But they did, and they do.
And, of course, we talked about the blackouts that happen when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.
Oh, it's okay.
We've got a big battery backup.
Well, that's another problem in and of itself.
Fire.
Fire.
And expense.
Unbelievably expensive.
And just how much of a backup can you get with that?
So, anyway, they did and they do.
The physics are simple.
And now as blackouts in Spain, strand people in elevators, jam traffic lights and ground flights, it's clear that just too little inertia due to excess solar resulted in the system collapse.
And as I said before, you have even people like Tony Blair starting to walk back from some of this stuff.
I mean, these are people who were insane about it.
To see Tony Blair walk back against this is like...
Seeing Joe Biden walking back against this.
And so they've now admitted that it was some failures on some solar farms, a couple of them, that initiated this, and then it propagated through the grid.
Spain's national grid operator said it identified two incidents of power generation loss, probably from solar plants, in the country's southwest.
These incidents caused instability in the electrical system, led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France.
People have started to learn a lesson.
As some people pointed out, what if that were a real cyber attack?
What if that were an EMP, for example?
What would have happened at that point?
Well, it shows that nobody is prepared for this.
It shows that they don't have much in terms of breakers.
For something that is localized, right?
First of all, they need some more circuit breakers, you know, in the system to be able to shut this thing down so that anything that happens somewhere is not going to be so widely spread.
But there's not really any backup on this.
And as Tony Blair said, we have been pushing people to use more and more electricity.
Yeah, we want to electrify everything.
All of your transportation.
All of your heating, your cooking, everything.
All right?
All your personal stuff.
But all the major transportation, even trucks, they want to electrify everything.
Even in the ridiculous moves of the Obama and Biden administration, they want to electrify military equipment.
Unbelievably heavy, energy-intensive military equipment.
They wanted to electrify it.
Like right now.
Okay, why don't you just destroy your defenses here.
These incidents cause instability in the electrical system.
They ruled out cyber attack.
They said the blackout was not due to nuclear power, but, look, being phased out.
But if they had nuclear power, the nuclear power does use the big turbine generators, and that does solve the inertia problem.
And so the guy is wrong.
The guy's wrong.
That is one of the many things that would have stopped this type of problem.
Those who link this incident to the lack of nuclear power are frankly lying or demonstrating their ignorance.
No, you're lying and demonstrating your ignorance.
That's the Spanish Prime Minister who's saying that.
Pedro.
Pedro Sanchez.
He still evidently doesn't understand the connection.
They say the Guardian was still, this is Daily Skeptic, the Guardian was still running with the idea that weather was to blame as of yesterday morning, but later in the day they dropped that entirely because it was not weather.
Still, the Guardian wants to blame everything on man-made climate change.
Everything.
Everything.
Every catastrophe.
Every storm.
It's all going to be blamed on man-made stuff.
However, I said the politics section of The Guardian did cover Tony Blair's warning that phasing out fuel is doomed to failure.
Now, of course, he calls it fossil fuel.
I think that's absolute nonsense.
That is the CIA's agenda for mind control and messing with us.
Oh, yeah, we've got to go to different forms of energy because, guess why?
Oh, tell them it's from dinosaurs.
We don't have any more dinosaurs.
We're going to run out of oil and gas.
No, no.
Fuel.
Fuel.
Tony Blair, said the Guardian, has called for a reset of action on climate change to the dismay of some green campaigners suggesting that the government should focus less on renewables and more on technological solutions like,
uh-oh, here it is, carbon capture.
He's pivoting, along with the Trump administration, to carbon capture.
The pipeline thing that I was talking about.
So we're not out of the woods yet.
I mean, these grifters, liars, politicians, and thieves.
I know I'm being redundant there.
It's four adjectives of the same group of people.
They're always going to pivot us over to some pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
Let's be clear.
You're the carbon they want to capture.
That's right.
They want to capture and eliminate us.
It's fundamentally about depopulation.
It's also about...
Making themselves rich in the process and taking everything so that we own nothing.
And look, this carbon capture stuff is insane.
We spent a lot of time last week talking about the pitfalls of these pipelines and the ripoffs and how they were stealing people's property with eminent domain and ruining their farms.
So many problems.
But again, Trump is at the center of all this.
Summit Pipeline, the biggest one, I think.
And the governors of North and South Dakota, Kristi Noem and Doug Burgum, who are now in the Trump cabinet.
Noem at the Department of Justice, but Burgum in there at the Department of Interior.
And so those two governors and Trump met with the pipeline head, CEO of Summit.
At Mar-a-Lago.
The fix was in well before the election.
Now you've got Tony Blair jumping in on carbon capture.
Elon Musk is there as well.
People want carbon capture.
They want carbon taxes.
All this is also an argument for you having everything that you buy and use measured by a digital currency.
So the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said people were, quote, being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal.
Zero.
Let's talk about that.
The real net zero is the effect that your life has on all this.
And that's especially true in the UK.
The UK is so small.
The Labour Party has belabored this.
And they have shut down, they're de-industrializing Britain at an alarming rate.
And it's largely gone now.
It's not just the market forces.
And of course a lot of the market forces have been put in place by these preferential treatment treaties for China, India, others like that.
But it is truly insane, especially when you look at the small amount of carbon that is being used in that small country.
And they've already eviscerated their energy usage.
And so this is an unbelievable understatement from Tony Blair.
Yeah, we know that our impact is not only minimal, it's net zero.
That's what our impact is, is net zero.
That's the real net zero.
And they want us to make big financial sacrifices, changes in lifestyle.
They want to kill our lifespan because that's when you take away cheap energy.
It's not just a lifestyle change.
It's a life expectancy change.
So Blair was writing the foreword to a new report for his think tank at the Tony Blair Institute.
And it echoed similar criticism of net zero made by the UK's conservative leader.
He wrote, any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels?
I can't.
Phasing out fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.
Most political leaders, said Tony Blair, are decent people.
They would like to start taking some of the hysteria out of the climate debate, but they're reluctant to be the first to do so.
They want to do the right thing.
As we can all hope that that's true, right?
I don't think so.
So, what do we see?
We see that our dependence on electricity is increased dramatically by their fiat demands.
And then we see that the new sources of electricity are subject to uncontrollable variations in supply.
And now we have this new kind of variation in supply.
In terms of the grid frequency.
So, the fiasco there in Spain and Portugal has flagged up like nothing else before it.
To show how vulnerable our society is, especially when massive changes to something as important as a power grid are, listen, forced through in a rush.
And that's the problem with the tariffs.
I don't support any of this green stuff.
What they're trying to achieve, I adamantly oppose, and I also oppose the means of why they're trying to achieve that and how they're trying to do it.
But what Trump is doing in terms of, well, let's get manufacturing back in America.
Well, that's great.
But everything that he's doing mitigates against that.
And there are many things that he could do that would help it.
And by the way, there is a bill in Congress that we're going to talk about that I think is hopeful.
We'll see if Trump pushes it and supports it.
Something that Rand Paul and Thomas Massey have been pushing for a very long time.
They called it the RAINS Act.
Basically reining in the bureaucracy.
We'll talk about the details of that coming up.
But if that were to happen, that would be a huge step forward.
And the left is not happy about that.
But that's the type of thing.
We need to have some fundamental structural change.
First of all, in the government.
The government is the biggest problem.
The biggest problem is not even China or any foreign government or even any foreign corporation.
The biggest problem is that our government is basically smothering innovation.
In this country.
And they're doing it with regulation.
And so, will Trump learn anything about trying to force changes through in a rush?
I don't know.
We'll see.
They need to stop calling them renewable.
And they need to call them variable energy.
Because everything about them varies.
They vary with the sunlight.
They vary with the wind.
And then they create varying frequencies.
Because they don't have any inertia.
The result is a grid that may function adequately under ideal conditions, but remains perilously susceptible to rapid destabilization when faced with disturbances.
Power system engineers have been warning about the high penetration of renewables and the inertia-related risk for years.
But guess what?
Politicians didn't care.
And they didn't listen.
They had a different agenda.
*music*
The common man.
They created common core to dumb down our children.
They created common past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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