Let's cut through the eco-babble and get real. When even Emmanuel Macron – that poster boy for European elitism and green virtue-signalling – comes out swinging against renewables, you know the house of cards is tumbling. The French prez, who's never met a EU mandate he didn't love, just dropped a truth bomb on Spain's mega-blackout: It's all because of their blind faith in windmills and solar panels. If Macron's admitting the "limits of renewable energy," things must be catastrophically worse than the alarmists let on. As a die-hard climate sceptic who's been yelling about this for years at the blog, I say: Vindication tastes sweeter than a coal-fired steak. Let's look at this fiasco and why it's time to wake up from the renewable delusion.
Picture this: April 2025, Spain – the darling of the green brigade with nearly 57% of its juice coming from "clean" sources like wind, hydro, and solar – gets hit with the mother of all blackouts. Boom! Lights out across the country, spilling into Portugal and southwestern France. Millions in the dark for nearly a day, internet and phones kaput, folks trapped in elevators and trains like some dystopian thriller. Five people dead, chaos in the streets, schools and offices shuttered. And the culprit? Not some terrorist plot or cyber hack, but a massive overvoltage surge that fried the grid. Spain's own electric operator calls it the "most severe" power event in Europe in two decades – the first blackout ever pinned on too much voltage overwhelming the system.
Enter Macron, speaking at some fancy energy confab, laying it bare: "The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support." Ouch! He doubles down: "No system, at least with current technology, can withstand such dependence on renewable energies." And he's right – stability needs a mix, not this pie-in-the-sky reliance on weather-dependent whims. The sun don't shine at night, wind don't blow on demand, and when you've got a glut of solar pumping in more power than the grid can handle? Zap! Blackout city. Experts like Damian Cortinas from Entso-e confirm it's unprecedented overvoltage, and even Spain's photovoltaic honcho Jose Donoso admits it "makes no sense" for one solar plant to tank the whole shebang. But it did, because renewables aren't the reliable saviours the Greens peddle.
This isn't just Spain's headache; it's a wake-up call for the whole climate cult. Spain's gunning for 81% renewables by 2030, ditching their nukes (20% of power) between 2027 and 2035 like they're radioactive trash. Meanwhile, the UK's Ed Miliband is pushing a lunatic 95% "clean" electricity by 2030 – good luck with that, mate. We've seen this movie before: California's rolling blackouts, Germany's Energiewende disaster where they've burned more coal than ever after nuking their nukes, Australia's sky-high prices from wind farm follies. Renewables are intermittent, expensive to back up (hello, gas peakers and batteries that cost a fortune), and they wreck the landscape – bird-chopping turbines, toxic solar waste, flooded valleys for hydro. And for what? To "fight" a climate "crisis" that's mostly hype?
Let's be free-wheeling here: Climate change? Sure, the planet warms and cools – always has, always will. But man-made catastrophe? Pfft. The models are junk, predictions flop (no ice-free Arctic, no drowned cities), and the "solutions" like renewables do more harm than good. They're a trillion-dollar scam funnelling cash to cronies while jacking up your bills and leaving you in the dark – literally. Macron's admission? It's the canary in the coal mine (pun intended). If a Green zealot like him sees the writing on the wall, imagine how bad it really is behind the curtain. Grids buckling under overvoltage because solar floods the system on sunny days? That's not progress; that's regression to the Stone Age.
So, how do we fix this mess? Ditch the dogma and get pragmatic. Bring back coal, gas, and especially nuclear – reliable, dense, 24/7 power that doesn't care if it's cloudy. Invest in grids that can handle reality, not fantasies. Tell the EU and UN alarmists to take a hike. Energy independence means affordable, abundant fossil fuels and nukes, not begging the wind gods for mercy. Spain's blackout is exhibit A: Renewables aren't ready for prime time, and pushing them harder just accelerates the collapse.
In the end, Macron's rare moment of honesty is a gift to sceptics like me. It exposes the emperor's new clothes – or in this case, the emperor's new solar panels – as flimsy and futile. Time to power up with common sense, not Green dreams. If even the French are saying "non" to this nonsense, the renewable revolution is toast.
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