The answer to the headline question: We will never be told the truth about both. Italian anti-Malthusian fighter Prof. Franco Battaglia wrote that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez “is covering up the origin of the blackout in order to not admit an ecologist harakiri,” in the daily La Verità on May 3.
Spanish authorities are saying that they must understand what happened. “The very fact that they must yet understand should motivate the top Spanish political authorities to immediately fire all engineers who were mandated to monitor the grid. Not because it became unstable, but because they don’t even know the reason for that. As the authorities have not fired anyone, the most probable case is that they were indeed informed of the exact cause of the breakdown.” They do not reveal it because they are still deciding what plausible “explanation” they will offer publicly.
“Whatever explanation they deliver, a fundamental truth is that a tombstone must be put on wind and solar power,” Battaglia wrote, going into a lengthy explanation on why only fossil energy sources can supply the capability of balancing the grid at any moment. Not even nuclear power can: Nuclear power plants are built so that if there is a change in frequency, they are cut off from the grid, and therefore, cannot be used to immediately rebalance the grid. The paradox of Ursula von der Leyen’s Green Deal is that the more so-called alternative energies are introduced into the system, the more gas or coal-powered plants must be built and kept on standby.
