Europe was only a few moments away from a catastrophic, continent-wide power outage last Monday. Parts of Spain and Portugal were in the dark for more than a day.

Grid operators initially told their panicking nations that it must have been a major cyberattack that knocked out the power in three nations. (Russia! Russia! Russia!) Spain’s grid operator Red Eléctrica had to quickly admit the embarrassing truth, however to prevent world war 3 from breaking out.

Europe was nearly plunged into a new Dark Age last week because solar power was incapable of keeping the power on in the sunniest nation in Europe in the springtime.

They were almost to the point of riots in the street in Spain after having the power off for a few hours. Like most Europeans, the Spanish have been fully captivated by the suicidal global warming cult. On April 16, the Spanish government was proud to announce that their entire power grid was now 100% supplied by “renewables”—windmills and solar power. No more of those dirty “fossil fuels” for Spain, by golly!

Just 12 days after that historic event, it nearly knocked the power out for the entire continent.

Officials are not sure how long it would have taken to get the power back on if that had happened. It knocked out the power in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France before grid operators in other neighboring countries were able to prevent a catastrophic collapse.

Supermarket shelves were stripped bare within a matter of a few hours in Spain. Public transport networks, which rely entirely on “renewables,” were shut down. This caused traffic jams and long lines at the gas stations. Huge lines formed in front of shops and banks as people tried to stock up on supplies and take out as much cash as they could.

The airports across Spain and Portugal were shut down and all flights were grounded. The trains completely shut down in both countries. In some cases, people got stuck underground on the trains in complete darkness until they could be evacuated. People got stuck in elevators. Hospitals had to suspend routine operations. Spain ended up deploying 30,000 “police” to various cities across the country to restore order.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez panicked and called the NATO Secretary General, just in case it was Russia! Russia! Russia! that had somehow caused the outage.

Spain suddenly lost 15GW of power generation at about 12:30 p.m. local time on Monday. That was equivalent to about 60% of national demand. The oscillation in the grid led to emergency shutoff protocols at all the power plants in Spain and Portugal, and some in France.

“This is something that has never happened before,” said PM Sanchez.

Yeah, no kidding, Sherlock. Maybe because you were the first country to commit civilizational suicide by trying to run your entire nation on solar and wind power.

The only people who were able to keep the power on in their homes had backup diesel generators.

Those of us who haven’t drunk the global warming Kool-Aid have been warning about scenarios like this for years. “Renewables” are not reliable, and US policymakers should take note of this catastrophe before we build any more eyesore windmills or chop down any more ancient forests to set up an ugly, environment-destroying solar panel farm.

We’re regularly seeing similar disasters here in America. It’s just on a smaller scale than what Europe went through. In the winter of 2021, Texas went through a major power outage during a cold snap when its windmills froze. Which prompted many people to wonder, why was the red state of Texas—our most petroleum-rich state—building stupid windmills in the first place?

In California, afternoon brownouts regularly happen during the summer months, when the stupid solar panels and windmills fail to provide enough electricity to power everyone’s air conditioning and electric car chargers. It’s insane and suicidal.

The big takeaway from the European blackout, which still hasn’t been resolved (the power’s still out in many places), is to be ready for disasters like this. Many of the younger professionals in Spain had no emergency cash. They’re used to the power staying on and their debit cards working every time. Within just a few hours, people started panicking and store shelves were stripped bare.

That’s what the Green New Deal brought the Europeans this week, and it would do the same thing to America if we’re stupid enough to stay on that same “renewable” path.