Days after celebrating their switch to 100 percent renewable energy for the first time during a weekday, the electrical grid crashes, bringing everything to a halt in a massive blackout that is now being blamed on a “rare atmospheric event.”

Politicians and their “experts” are blaming the weather…

Bafflegab and Bullshit?

After an extensive search of the technical literature, and as far as I can determine, “induced atmospheric vibration” is not a recognized scientific term, at least not in any standard atmospheric science, meteorology, or energy grid management context.

It sounds like bureaucratic nonsense: a made-up or wildly stretched phrase trying to make a natural weather fluctuation or failure sound mysterious, technical, and outside human control.

• “Induced” implies something was triggered or caused (but by what? No one says).

• “Atmospheric vibration” is meaningless in the context of renewable energy generation. The atmosphere always has natural fluctuations — wind, pressure waves, etc. — but the idea that some “vibration” killed the grid is nonsense.

In plain English: It’s likely just a fake, cover-up term designed to avoid admitting the blackout was caused by bad planning, no storage, and overreliance on unstable renewables without proper backup systems.

If politicians and their “experts” use “induced atmospheric vibration,” it’s almost certainly an excuse to deflect blame.

Imagine that…

After Spain’s fearless leaders popped champagne bottles and declared Spain’s triumphant entry into the age of pure renewable energy, during a weekday, no less, they now sit in the dark, sweating before useless electric fans and trying to remember what a functioning society felt like.

The cause? Oh, just a “rare atmospheric event,” they say. Nothing to see here, just a little accident of nature where the sun didn’t cooperate, and — oops — apparently no one remembered to plan for that possibility when designing our shiny new grid.

It’s truly comforting to know that billions of euros, years of think tank reports, and endless smug press conferences have brought Spain to this: a country that can power itself on rainbows and good intentions, but not, you know, actual electricity when the weather gets moody.

And where were Spain’s beloved “expert planners”? Probably still busy writing victory speeches while the grid was wobbling like a drunk tourist in Ibiza. Resilience? Backup systems? Energy storage? Boring. Too “negative.” Much better to aim for headlines about “historic firsts” and hope no one notices the foundations were built out of fairy dust and TED Talks.

Meanwhile, on the ground, it’s chaos. No lights. No trains. No cell service unless you stand on one foot and pray to the telecom gods. Hospitals are running on fumes. Supermarkets are a few days away from medieval barter markets.

But don’t worry, the Ministry of Energy assures us this was a “rare event.” Like it somehow excuses designing a national grid that collapses the moment Mother Nature gets a little moody. Maybe next time they can also plan our emergency response based on horoscopes.

The reality is simple: politicians wanted the photo op. Bureaucrats wanted the promotions. Activist “experts” wanted to see their white papers turned into government mandates without any of that pesky engineering or risk management stuff getting in the way.

And the people, those sitting in the dark, burning candles and losing their frozen food, get to pay for their government’s grand experiment in magical thinking.

Spain deserves renewable energy done right. People deserve a clean future that actually works when the weather doesn’t feel like cooperating. The people deserve better than a government that thinks press releases are an acceptable substitute for power plants.

Bottom line…

The official explanation emerging from government and energy officials is that a “rare atmospheric event” triggered the crisis.

Simply put: there was no backup.

While many are trying to paint this as an unforeseen, one-in-a-million occurrence, the truth feels less comforting. Engineers have long warned that a fully renewable grid needs not just generation capacity, but resilience — energy storage, dispatchable backup power, and smart grids capable of managing sudden fluctuations. In a rush to declare a historic victory, it seems Spain may have skipped some crucial steps.

Of course, renewable energy is essential for our future. No one disputes that. However, the grid catastrophe in Spain exposed a hard truth: ideology and optimism alone cannot keep the lights on. Science, engineering, and humility must guide our energy transitions, not headlines and self-congratulation. Wind, solar, and water are not as reliable as clean nuclear energy, a subject that is mainly ignored by the ideological elites.

We are being screwed by our “experts” who are funded by ignorant and/or malicious politicians.

-- Steve