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The official report on the blackout in Spain and Portugal was just released. I'll give a quick summary of findings and provide some additional info.
TL;DR
conventional power plants didn't control the voltage as planned
over-voltage caused renewables to turn off as required
TL;DR
conventional power plants didn't control the voltage as planned
over-voltage caused renewables to turn off as required
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The official report on the blackout in Spain and Portugal was just released. I'll give a quick summary of findings and provide some additional info.
TL;DR
conventional power plants didn't control the voltage as planned
over-voltage caused renewables to turn off as required
TL;DR
conventional power plants didn't control the voltage as planned
over-voltage caused renewables to turn off as required
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"This is a watershed moment for Europe. And for Ukraine, as part of our European family.
We have to put Ukraine in the condition to protect itself and to push for a lasting and just peace."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu doorstep ahead of #EUCO special summit.
We have to put Ukraine in the condition to protect itself and to push for a lasting and just peace."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu doorstep ahead of #EUCO special summit.
March 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"This is a watershed moment for Europe. And for Ukraine, as part of our European family.
We have to put Ukraine in the condition to protect itself and to push for a lasting and just peace."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu doorstep ahead of #EUCO special summit.
We have to put Ukraine in the condition to protect itself and to push for a lasting and just peace."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu doorstep ahead of #EUCO special summit.
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Here's another gift link on.ft.com/41hFkrM
February 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here's another gift link on.ft.com/41hFkrM
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February 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Even the cleverest members of the routed establishment have started acknowledging the old older is dead. This isn’t about changing personnel or diplomatic alliances, but suddenly finding our shared assumptions about how the world functions are no longer correct. sluggerotoole.com/2025/02/20/l...
Life Punishes the Late—Adapt or Die
This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being routed have started to acknowledge publicly that the old older is dead. This isn’...
sluggerotoole.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Even the cleverest members of the routed establishment have started acknowledging the old older is dead. This isn’t about changing personnel or diplomatic alliances, but suddenly finding our shared assumptions about how the world functions are no longer correct. sluggerotoole.com/2025/02/20/l...
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Musk & Putin Apply For Joint Custody Of Donald Trump
Musk & Putin Apply For Joint Custody Of Donald Trump
A WASHINGTON judge has praised the two people at the centre of a custody battle after they defied the stereotypical argumentative exchanges normally seen in his court, instead amicably agreeing to sha...
waterfordwhispersnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Musk & Putin Apply For Joint Custody Of Donald Trump
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Donald Trump is saying if Ukraine hadn't dressed so provocatively Russia wouldn't have invaded her.
February 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Donald Trump is saying if Ukraine hadn't dressed so provocatively Russia wouldn't have invaded her.
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🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future.
"Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."
"Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."
“If it's not Brussels, then it's Moscow": Zelenskyy's Statement at MSC 2025 | BR24
YouTube video by BR24
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February 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future.
"Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."
"Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
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Happy Birthday to the leader of the free world.
Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
January 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Happy Birthday to the leader of the free world.
Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
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The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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Bring your story to the stage — your insights can paint the #NewHousingParadigm we need in Europe.
ICSH, CHI & Housing Europe invite you to submit event ideas for the International Social Housing Festival in 🍀 Dublin in 2025, #ISHF2025.
What & when? socialhousingfestival.eu/submissions
ICSH, CHI & Housing Europe invite you to submit event ideas for the International Social Housing Festival in 🍀 Dublin in 2025, #ISHF2025.
What & when? socialhousingfestival.eu/submissions
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Bring your story to the stage — your insights can paint the #NewHousingParadigm we need in Europe.
ICSH, CHI & Housing Europe invite you to submit event ideas for the International Social Housing Festival in 🍀 Dublin in 2025, #ISHF2025.
What & when? socialhousingfestival.eu/submissions
ICSH, CHI & Housing Europe invite you to submit event ideas for the International Social Housing Festival in 🍀 Dublin in 2025, #ISHF2025.
What & when? socialhousingfestival.eu/submissions
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Please read this utterly brilliant take-down of the notion that fossil fuel lobbying is good for climate action, by @thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/lobby...
www.thejournal.ie/readme/lobby...
January 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Please read this utterly brilliant take-down of the notion that fossil fuel lobbying is good for climate action, by @thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/lobby...
www.thejournal.ie/readme/lobby...
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Our annual review is out! Solar overtook coal as no. 3 source of electricity generation in 2024; grid carbon intensity averaged 256gCO2/kWh, 8.6% lower than 2023. We also went beyond wind to include all renewables for this heatmap/rankings. Full report: currents.greencollective.io/a-year-in-re...
January 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our annual review is out! Solar overtook coal as no. 3 source of electricity generation in 2024; grid carbon intensity averaged 256gCO2/kWh, 8.6% lower than 2023. We also went beyond wind to include all renewables for this heatmap/rankings. Full report: currents.greencollective.io/a-year-in-re...
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Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
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Always remember January 6.
Always fight for democracy, peace, and equality for all.
Always fight for civility, decency, and the rule of law.
Always fight for democracy, peace, and equality for all.
Always fight for civility, decency, and the rule of law.
January 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Always remember January 6.
Always fight for democracy, peace, and equality for all.
Always fight for civility, decency, and the rule of law.
Always fight for democracy, peace, and equality for all.
Always fight for civility, decency, and the rule of law.
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Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a blind trust reminds me of that time Donald Trump’s son-in-law took $2 Billion from the Saudis who murdered Jamal Khashoggi.
December 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a blind trust reminds me of that time Donald Trump’s son-in-law took $2 Billion from the Saudis who murdered Jamal Khashoggi.
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I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:57 AM
I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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This is great 👍
I LOVE this essay by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social and agree with it all. (Personally i will be ditching my ridiculously brilliant, productive friends and finding some lazy losers instead) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
This is great 👍
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Our brand new Clean Power 2030 Action Plan is published today.
We’ve produced this at lightning pace - it’s packed with new steps towards clean power. We’re moving quickly and making big decisions to open the path to 2030.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We’ve produced this at lightning pace - it’s packed with new steps towards clean power. We’re moving quickly and making big decisions to open the path to 2030.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Our brand new Clean Power 2030 Action Plan is published today.
We’ve produced this at lightning pace - it’s packed with new steps towards clean power. We’re moving quickly and making big decisions to open the path to 2030.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We’ve produced this at lightning pace - it’s packed with new steps towards clean power. We’re moving quickly and making big decisions to open the path to 2030.
www.gov.uk/government/p...