UK Telegraph: ‘Net zero blamed for Europe’s biggest power cut’ – ‘Experts say a reliance on solar & wind power left Spain & Portugal vulnerable’

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Comment by Willem Post on May 13, 2025 at 7:14am

US Treasury Finally Scrutinizing the Making of Payments

The Democrats howling, moaning, groaning is about their misdeeds being discovered.

All those people that were sucking of the federal-money tit are sucking no more

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Democrats are also upset about the likely discovery of even more misdeeds, which puts an end to/slows down their games and gravy trains.

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The chaos you see in the US is partially due to millions of Democrats and organizations/NGOs no longer getting blank checks from the US Treasury, as they did under Secretary Yellen

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The US Treasury has a new Secretary, who rationally requires any payment request to have:

 

1) A line item of the law that authorizes it (if no money is left, no payment is made), and

2) A routing number indicating the recipient name and bank account number (if the recipient appears shady, no payment is made).

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Many Democrat bureaucrats are no longer bothering to make “payment requests” to the US Treasury.

In due time, that will finally reduce federal budget deficits.

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Elon Musk's DOGE was flabbergasted to discover 1) the lack of tying payments to approved budgets had been going on for decades. 2) the lack of routing numbers.

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The federal government was buying tens of thousands of high-priced subscription services from the Corporate Media, which acted as a subsidy.

In turn, the Media provide near 100% favorable treatment for Biden Democrats, 100% unfavorable treatment for Trump Republicans. Almost all those subscriptions were cancelled.

 

Musk’s DOGE Group

Much more fraud, waste and abuse has been found, exposed, and recommended to be terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people, headed by Elon Musk, who has taken a step back to concentrate on his businesses.

DOGE found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.

The money was taken back, and reduced the US national debt

Comment by Willem Post on May 13, 2025 at 7:13am

The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-Do

The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades.

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Now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar systems disturbing the grid with variable, intermittent electricity, which caused blackouts in Spain/Portugal, and in many other places.

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Eliminating rotating generators that provide SYNCHRONOUS inertia is a death sentence for the grid.

Wind and solar provide NO SYNCHRONOUS inertia, because their outputs are digitized, then reconstituted into an artificial sine wave in phase with grid.

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The irregular outputs of weather-dependent wind and solar fed to the grid often create transmission faults.

Those faults can be minimized with synchronous condenser systems to provide reactive power to the grid.

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Al traditional power plants provide reactive power TO the grid

Wind and solar take reactive power FROM the grid

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Any energy systems analyst would know Iberia-like problems would eventually happen, before even a single wind and solar system were connected, but naive, woke enviros do not want to listen to the pros.

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Full speed ahead over the cliff you go, unless all this wind, solar, battery nonsense is stopped dead by taking away subsidies.

Net Zero to reduce CO2 by 2050 is a very expensive suicide pact.
We need higher CO2 ppm in the atmosphere for increased greening of the world, to support abundant fauna, and to increase crop yields to feed 8 billion people.