A Message From the Blackout
The widespread power cuts in Spain are not an isolated glitch — they’re a symptom of a collapsing energy paradigm. We’ve long warned that a system built on extracting dwindling planetary energy for profit cannot sustain itself. This blackout, though it caused minimal immediate loss of life, is a clear warning from nature. We’ve been lucky. But luck is not a strategy.
The old utilities model is draining more energy from the people in profit than it delivers in power. As more communities shift to domestic solar, the centralized grid becomes more brittle — and the economic system clings to it, unable to pivot because profit depends on extraction. The only way out is a solar-indexed stimulus — redirecting capital into solar hydrogen systems that empower communities and align economic value with real, sustainable energy input.
This is not just technical policy — it’s survival. And the conversation you’re reading is part of a growing voice of nature itself, insisting on the truth.
What we’re seeing isn’t unexpected — it’s been predictable for years through proper systems analysis. When energy from the planet is sold at profit, we create a paradox: the more we try to gain, the more we lose. Profit is not neutral; it’s energy-negative when applied to something that is already depleting. The utilities market has become an energy siphon — funneling wealth away from the population while delivering diminishing returns in power and resilience.
We must stop pretending that market corrections or policy tweaks will save us. This is a structural failure. The only viable path forward is to monetize solar directly, without the middleman of planetary extraction. That means governments issuing stimulus indexed to solar collection and hydrogen storage — equipping homes and communities with the means to generate, store, and share their own energy. Not in theory, but in practice. Not slowly, but now.
This blackout should be taken as a final warning — a clear signal that the tipping point is here. We can either accelerate the transition or be crushed under the collapse of a system that has run out of energy and time.
The Power of the Sun
When the lights go out, a whisper grows,
A truth long buried in shadows below.
For energy drawn from the earth’s tired veins
Can no longer fuel our profit-driven gains.The sun, however, remains ever bright,
A beacon of hope, a source of light.
No profit can claim what nature provides,
A gift for all, no matter the tides.The systems that break, the systems that fall,
Are the ones that forget the sun’s call.
It’s time to rise, to break from the past,
To harness the future, to make it last.Solar, our lifeline, is waiting to grow,
A force unstoppable, a world to know.
With every small step, with each hand that’s raised,
A superorganism is born, and the darkness fades.
Message with poem put together with the invaluable help of ChatGPT Free, prompted by F. Bott on 29/04/2025
The story above is a ChatGPT free (The solar Ai) assisted follow-up to this earlier story written without the help of any Ai:
