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Apr 8, 2026 - The Grid Doesn`t Need More Power Plants (It Needs This) The National Grid Is Dead. Here`s What Replaces It. In April 2025, most of Spain and Portugal went dark. A cascading failure knocked out the Iberian peninsula`s grid in seconds. Just four years earlier, Texas came within 4 minutes and 37 seconds of its own total collapse. Not a temporary blackout. A full shutdown. What engineers call a "black start," a process that could take days to weeks to recover from. Not to mention all of the people that died as a result. According to the Department of Energy, 70 percent of US transmission lines are over 25 years old. We`re running 21st century lives on a mid-20th century grid. But back in 1997, energy consultant Karl Rábago wrote a blueprint for a radically different grid. His model? The internet. Seriously. And no, I`m not talking about today`s internet, which is just five billionaires in a trench coat. I`m talking about the `90s internet. Decentralized. Collaborative. And really, really cool. So how would the internet stop a blackout? And why did the guy who figured it out get ignored for 30 years? But first, we need to understand what went so wrong. |
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