Andries de Boer

Ziet u dat puntje. Zij gaan 200 miljard investeren en het verschil is nul. Maar deugen dat dat links Nederland doet. 👏 🤮

Germany Energy Minister Katherina Reiche: The phase-out of nuclear power was a huge mistake — a huge mistake. We now miss that energy. So, the only way to secure supply is gas.

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

Deze week op zee op de UK-237 van de mannen Post. Gisteren was de bemanning net voor de storm weer binnen. De vis is gelost en ligt vandaag bij de visboer en voor bereiding in de betere visrestaurants. Dank mannen, het waren een paar pittige dagen zo te zien. 👍