ECLIPSE IN THE AFTERNOON
The green transition experienced a sudden blow in April 2025. The epicenter was in the south of Spain, and the consequences shook the entire country and Portugal. Before the earthquake, the Spanish were on the right European path; they were proud of the fact that they produced over 50% of electricity from renewable sources. It was a sunny afternoon and the green activists could happily claim that their plan to save the planet was coming to fruition. Then there was a sudden power failure on the entire peninsula, something like a blackout in the afternoon.
The main newspapers immediately began to look for the causes in some enemy attack. Sabotage or some kind of unexpected natural phenomena were mentioned, some immediately determined that the bad energy interconnection with neighboring France was to blame for everything.
For us, who try to think for ourselves, the question immediately comes to mind: why would such a large power system be dependent on the system of another country? Short-term borrowing of electricity is common practice among countries, but each country would have to build its own sustainable energy system. After all, no one can guarantee that a neighbor will be able to come to our aid when it suits us. When it comes to France, they have many of nuclear power plants and their electricity is certainly more expensive than that produced by solar power plants in southern Spain. Why would they be a large and expensive reserve in case something goes wrong in a neighboring country that blindly follows Brussels’ energy policy?
This year, two events slightly disrupted the picture of the green idyll in Croatia. One member of parliament gathered courage and began to publicly speak that the green transition is a large and expensive fraud.
Another rebel spoke out from a neighboring country. Online media began quoting an energy expert from Serbia. Bogdan Petrović12 he was not satisfied with general evaluations about the energy collapse on the Iberian Peninsula, but, from the expert side, explained that any power system in which solar power sources and wind power plants predominate is fundamentally unstable. In order for it to be stable, a predominance of sources based on inertial-rotational sources, i.e. turbines and generators, is necessary. Furthermore, he claims that, when there is a problem in the supply of electricity, then the system cannot be started only with the help of eolar sources. From the above, it follows that green electricity is cheap only at first glance, because it is only sustainable if it has classic electricity producers built in parallel. Thus, Petrović questioned the basic dogma of the EU’s economic strategy. Dogmas can be more or less irrational, but this one is very expensive. It turns out that “sustainable” sources of electricity are only apparently cheaper and that electricity consumers have to additionally finance the green transition through taxes.
In both cases, it could be expected that the media would start a discussion on the topic of national energy sustainability. At the very least, the Croatian government should provide a well-argued refutation of the MP’s claims, but none of that would do anything. That could only confuse the people and the broad masses of graduates and sow seeds of doubt in the new green religion called “zero carbon emissions.”
As usual, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is silent on this important national issue. And scientists from the natural science sector are wisely silent because they know very well what their careers will be like if they start questioning green dogmas too loudly.
The sellers of fog in Croatia immediately reacted in defense of the green transition. The statement of the Association of Renewable Energy Sources of Croatia is particularly interesting. They are surprised that someone does not understand what has long been clear in Brussels, as well as to domestic copyists and translators in the Republic of Croatia. Not a word about why professional discussion of such an important issue as the alleged anthropogenic causes of climate change is prohibited in the mainstream media. This issue is not of a speculative nature where unclear claims can appear, it is an economic and technical issue of national importance.
Politicians can be criticized for a many things, but there is one thing in which they are superior to other citizens. They unerringly feel which way the wind is blowing and know that one should be careful about what should not be done against the wind. This is how ignorance and silence should be explained when it comes to the green transition. Cynics might say that politicians have no character, but in this way they participate in their small share of power and benefits and enjoy it.
DECARBONIZATION BECOMES CARBONIZATION
The financiers and promoters of electric vehicles are not confused, not even hellfire can stop them. The fact is that existing vehicles that use fossil fuels can catch fire. The causes can be a major mechanical shock or a spark and fire in the vehicle’s electrical installation. No gasoline tank can spontaneously combust, and this is exactly what happens with existing batteries that replace the classic fuel tank. Spontaneous combustion can happen in a parking lot, during charging on the move, anywhere.
Firefighters say it’s difficult to put out fires like this. When it comes to cars, they use a large blanket to cover the flames, thus depriving them of air.
When we look at the course of a fire, it initially looks similar to that of vehicles that use gasoline. Later, the fire becomes eruptive and grows into a small explosion that unstoppably engulfs everything around it.
But when large vehicles are ignited, then real fireworks are created.
The affected vehicles resemble burning armored vehicles in their death throes on the Ukrainian battlefield.
These cargo ships can carry thousands of cars. When green suicide bombers are found among them, an inferno ensues. At such moments, firefighters can do little, the agony lasts for days. But then the media immediately comes to the rescue, whose owners put out the fire by finding other topics to divert attention from the ugly incident. This will probably be the case when green vehicles are found mixed up on ferries with passengers.
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Armored vehicles in Ukraine must be flammable because, in addition to fuel, they also carry amunitions, so the risk for the crew cannot be avoided. But the risk posed by lithium-ion batteries can be avoided. It is necessary to keep the existing fossil fuels as a drive until a suitable solution is found for electricity storage that will be competitive with the existing drive. In that case, it won’t take any political financial blackmail to change the fuel. It will be clear to everyone that noiseless and clean vehicles are the solution.
In this way, it would be possible to use the excess electricity produced by solars, and the energy situation in Europe would be much more favorable. There is no such solution for now, and it can be reasonably assumed that there will never be one, because it would be technical perfection, something ideal.
The all-out political fight against fossil fuels has been going on since the great oil embargo organized by Islamic countries against Western countries that supported Israel after the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Political propaganda can be more or less unfounded in facts, but its goals are very logical and based on interests. As an example, it is enough to look at the two wars currently being fought in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In both cases, we have two warring parties for whom fossil fuels are an important or main source of political power. If we look at the declaration of carbon dioxide as the enemy of the people in this way, everything becomes clear and simple.
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