MCC Brussels 
An entire region plunged into blackout. Spain, Portugal and parts of France saw their electricity systems fail overnight. Why? In this explosive short clip from the MCC Brussels Deep Dive podcast, MEP Jorge Buxadé, MCC Brussels Director Frank Furedi, and Head of Policy Jacob Reynolds lay out the truth about Europe’s failed energy strategy.
They argue that years of Green Deal ideology, dismantling of nuclear and thermal power, and blind faith in renewables have created a fragile, unpredictable grid. The consequences? Industry shut down, homes without power, and no accountability from leaders like Pedro Sánchez.
The question now: was this just the beginning?
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Key Themes: energy crisis, blackout, Spain, EU energy policy, renewables, nuclear, green deal, European politics, MCC Brussels
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#EnergyCrisis #GreenDeal #EUfailure #SpainBlackout #FrankFuredi #JorgeBuxade #JacobReynolds #DeepDives #MCCBrussels #BlackoutEurope
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This is what happens when activists set policy without input from engineers and others.
Everyone who knows a thing or two about energysystems can provide a decent explanation of what has happened!
Darkness is coming to all of us………and when it goes it will take lives with it.
Now we know that net zero is bullshit no sun/wind no power😂
Responsible power grids backup all the wild AC from solar voltaic and wind turbine generated electricity. This is practically reliably accomplished by running natural gas turbine generators at high readiness 70% fuel consumption making near zero electricity where 100% output will 100% backup the wild AC in 2 – 3 seconds. It is unlikely this was the cause of Spain's power blackout. It does make for a more complicated expensive grid, but it shouldn't fail. A steam turbine generator used in nuclear, coal and the second cycle of natural gas combined cycle plants reacts too slowly to backup large amounts of wild AC.
—> go eu…. 🤔
The United Nations is your expert on climate change above, because they don't have an agenda at all.
Green new deal is a big Conn
How do we get the f-ing politicians out of everything?
We will never be allowed to know the truth because it does not suit to reveal it. The true cause is the Green Deal but the tyrants in Brussels will not admit it because it would upset the climat narrative. We are being fed lies by Brussels about climate change and other matters. It is little wonder that the European economy is in meltdown. What happened in the Iberian Peninsula is just a harbinger of what is coming to a European country near you.
The globalist EU Bureaucracy dictates energy policies to globalist governments across Europe,
The contrived energy crisis is justified as necessary,to save us from the even more contrived climate crisis.
Too many people still believe that it's incompetent policy decisions that lead to events like this outage.
Whereas in reality these events are planned and intentionally initiated by the globalist EU and
Their subservient european governments.
With the intention of seizing power,and at the same time deconstructing democracy across Europe.
Soon they'll be stealing more of our money
rationing our energy supply and much more
They will also be dictating what we can and cannot say (already happening)
Then they'll tell us
"It's all for our own good"
The saddest thing is,If the globalists win,
everyone else loses.
You have been duped,…..awaken to commonsense 😮
Renewable energy is not sustainable. At least not continuously.
I have a solution for countries who want to go 100% renewables. Convert your electricity system from AC to DC. Then Hertz frequently will not play a role. Forget Nicola Tesla, it's Thomas Edison that saves the day.
Its Putin!!!!!@
Putin caused the blackout!!!
P P P P utin!!!!!!
REALITY as just proven in Spain and Portugal that net zero and renewables is a complete fraud and lie.
Apropos the Iberian blackout, solar wind of electrically charged particles struck the Gibraltar area where the magnetosphere was weakened according to the data from US NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Centre’s GloTEC division; the vulnerability of a Renewables-reliant grid did the rest, and Spain reached their net zero target 25 years early.
Apropos the BIG LIE at the heart of net zero and decarbonisation:
When considering matters surrounding the current ‘Net Zero’ political narratives of the day, we should bear in mind the wise words of past figures of some merit; the American man of letters Henry Brooks Adams observed that 'Practical politics consists in ignoring facts'; Churchill famously noted that 'United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts; panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is'. Burns was a little more frank: 'Facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed'.
I’d like to see the scientific proof or evidence that man-made carbon dioxide emissions (globally accounting for 18 of the 425 odd parts per million found in the atmosphere, or roughly 4% of the 0.04% of our atmosphere, the remaining 99.996% being entirely of natural origin) are somehow more injurious to the prospects of the planet wellbeing than the remaining 407ppm of entirely natural origin – carbon dioxide (comprised of one atom carbon and two atoms oxygen) is an ESSENTIAL TO LIFE gas, the steady and slight increase (appx 1.6 ppm per annum) of which has been reckoned to increase crop yields globally, and also helped to ‘green’ the periphery of desert regions globally, as observed by satellite imaging these past six decades. The plankton inhabiting 71% of the planetary surface and myriad other marine life also benefit accordingly (it’s not all about chemistry in isolation of the rest).
It should also be borne in mind that global manufacturing giant China alone is calculated to have pumped more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere within the last five years than has been produced GLOBALLY by the rest of the world since the Industrial Revolution began, (even in 2003 they emitted three times as much as in 2002). This has yet to show up in increased overall carbon dioxide levels however, and nor will it, as this carbon dioxide is simply absorbed by oceanic algae, phytoplankton and land based vegetation.
Carbon dioxide only acts as a warming agent to the planet in concentrations between 50-100 parts per million and, crucially, across only a very narrow bandwidth of the spectrum; this extremely low concentration – about half of what is required to enable the most basic plant life to even begin to grow – was exceeded some six hundred million years ago, i.e. long, long before the evolution of dinosaurs, etc, by which time levels were orders of magnitude greater than today, ranging between 2000-7000ppm, resulting in a superabundance of vegetation for the herbivores of their day, and ALL of that without any industrial process aiding the beneficial to all forms of life change…
This CO2 warming effort (constituting around 10% of the planetary total, the other 90% is provided by water vapour and clouds, which we are of course neither able to reduce nor even control, much less set a pretend tax or levy upon) is now saturate, and helps to keep the planet some thirty-two degrees Celsius warmer than it would otherwise be, thus rendering Earth much more agreeably habitable than would otherwise be the case – cold kills far more people than warmth; were we to double, triple or indeed increase by tenfoldcabon dioxide levels – to typical tolerable ‘submarine-level’ concentrations – it would hardly raise the global temperature by a single degree Celsius.
Levels of carbon dioxide beyond 100ppm do not have any significant propensity to increase global temperatures, and in any event increased levels are as a CONSEQUENCE of temperature increases, NOT the cause of same. The temperature rise of the early medieval period some 800 years ago is the cause of present day carbon dioxide level increases – steady away at around 6ppm per annum – despite the industrious efforts of China.
To splurge tens of billions on such a clown initiative (- trees and vegetation absorb for free practically all of our human activity-generated CO2 , along with the 96% remainder, which of course is identical but of natural origin) is indicative of the lunacy of the calibre of idiots running the show; perhaps Climate Clown-in-Chief Ed Milliband could advise us of the difference his imbecilic efforts to reduce Man-made carbon dioxide (making up but 4% of the 0.04% of our total atmosphere, remember) will make to the incoming variable but cyclical energy levels of the Sun, which are the true cause of the temperature fluctuations of the planet; a perfect correlation between the monthly mean sunspot number and the mean seasonal temperature variation clearly demonstrates that solar activity is the principal driver of global warming/cooling, depending on solar activity levels – in short: it's the Sun, not us.
Well over one thousand scientific, peer-reviewed papers have been produced demonstrating the link between Earth’s climate (which produces no heat to speak of sufficient to drive its own climate) and the Sun – our SOLE meaningful means of warming the planet. It has furthermore been comprehensively proven by the two Professors, Dr. William Happer- chief Scientific advisor to three US presidents – and Willem Van Wijngaarden, both at Princeton, USA that carbon dioxide does not and indeed cannot warm the planet in the way that the scammers and charlatans would have us "believe", and yet despite ALL of this, rather than ‘looking up’ and finding out basic facts for ourselves, a global con/industry has been created around this foolish notion; they persist with the myth, trusting in the supposition that no one else was paying much attention to physics and chemistry in school…
Shakespeare wrote, ‘What a terrible era, in which idiots govern the blind’..
Ask yourself too: IF higher carbon dioxide levels are indeed so very dangerous, how come the planet did not simply ‘burn up’ last time they were over 2000 ppm? Or 7000 ppm?
For further scientific proof of the absolute nonsense of ‘danger’ concerning anthropogenic global warming via carbon dioxide, please see the excellent YouTube presentation 'Atmospheric Carbon, London, 18th July, 2016’. Watch at least the first and last ten minutes. Don't be a 'bloodletter'…..
Extreme right trying to get the support from traditional electric power companies. How many million euros are Iberdrola and Endesa pouring on VoX and PP.
Net zero and the political thinking that this type of energy source to run the world is insanity. Total ignorance. These types of energy production are irrational as they are not constant, there for un reliable, it simply will not be possible to run the worlds energy like this and it is not carbon friendly, and there is no evidence that CO2 causes temperature rises where is the real data that they can’t produce. And if that doesn’t sink in nor open your eyes now they have a plan to so called dim the sun, let’s see how well your solar power production increases through that madness.
And they have no idea what global effects will be when dimming the sun, but it’s not difficult or rocket science to any normal thinker to conclude one effect will be to render solar power unproductive. And if you play games with Mother Earth or the big bright energy ball in the sky, my guess is when you play with fire expect to be burnt badly.
AND IT IS NOTICEABLE THE TWO THINGS THIS PLANET DEPENDS UPON FOR LIFE THE POLITICS WANTS TO INTERFERE WITH IN AN UN NATURAL WAY IE OUR SUN AND CO2.
So going green actually means going black …..
Mhh, this is by design… if you look at where the “greens” ( aka the peoples party) have come from you know that they want a revolution and the only way they will get this is by destroying what we currently have by implementing marxist doctrine. Here in the UK 8% of the people voted green and 12% believe the world it flat. Says it all………Zero Growth in a country adding 1 million people per year to it population…… slow dive into poverty….. and the rise and rise of toxic socialism and the big state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_(UK)#PEOPLE,_1972%E2%80%931975 😇
Everybody save the government knows what happened – even ordinary folk made a correct diagnosis.
Everybody save the government knows what happened – even ordinary folk made a correct diagnosis. In
Net zero is a psychopathic trend🤦♀️🤦♀️🤯
I'm from Spain and i think our president has to go like he does, but the companies built a lot of wind and solar farms without batteries and improve the grid, so we have free electricity on weekends if are sunny or windy and you don't have a fixed tariff, they produce too much and they can't export it, i'm sure they will fix It bcos they don't wanna give anything for free
Baseless Green Ideology pushed by lying politicians caused the catastrophy and will continue to destroy state sovereignty.
Still people vote on politicians in the old system – why is this so? Stop voting on the criminal, lying and the manipulating gang.
Not in oz it will go full bore ahead now
From the people who sold the COVID hoax.
Drill baby drill. Spain will never see or know Russian troops are coming and those are “tourist” they truly don’t want to see.
Please send this to the idiot Milliband.
*****All the while China keeps building Nuclear and fossil fuel generators. USA is now also rebuilding Nuclear and fossil based plants ! Just how STUPID are Europeans !*****