The massive power outage in Australia was a "clean energy gaffe"
All of Southern Australia went dark because it is mostly run on wind power, and the wind started blowing too hard. When the wind blows too hard, wind generators shut down because the generator can only soak up so much power, and the brakes will quickly over heat if they have to slow the blades down much. You can see plenty of pictures of burning wind mills on Google - this happens when the wind blows too hard and the safety systems do not shut it down on time.

So all the wind generators shut off, and the bottom half of Australia went dark. Cute.
--JIM STONE