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2025-05-03 Europe

What could have caused the major power outage in Spain and Portugal?

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [247 views ] Top

#1 Some, important, people made serious money of green energy. So, zip your yaps peasants!

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-03 02:54|| 2025-05-03 02:54|| Front Page Top

#2

A20 Blackhats?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-03 09:36|| 2025-05-03 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet they put Nduka in a very nice suit for his performance, and he used his vaguely exotic accent.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-03 09:56|| 2025-05-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ...I'm not saying it's aliens, but....

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-05-03 10:12|| 2025-05-03 10:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Rare atmospheric phenomenon?

EMP?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-03 10:51|| 2025-05-03 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 U.S. Military Installation Overview of Moron Air Base in Spain

Two Additional B-1s Have Landed In Spain Bringing To Four The Total US Bombers Deployed To Europe

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-03 11:10|| 2025-05-03 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 The one thing we can say for sure is that this disaster was not caused by a decision to base the power grid on intermittent, non-dispatchable power sources, mainly because a weird little teenager thought that was a good idea. No, no, no.

Posted by Matt 2025-05-03 11:55|| 2025-05-03 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 #3 vaguely exotic accent

Tunbridge Wells? Wales? Yorkshire Dales? But seriously, somebody oughta write a book or make a TikTok video or something about the recent history of accents (and photogenicity?) in British documentaries and news programs.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-03 16:04|| 2025-05-03 16:04|| Front Page Top

#9 I blame the warming cultists. They desire to live in the stone age or prior, given they won't burn anything to survive.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-05-03 18:36|| 2025-05-03 18:36|| Front Page Top

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