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>If I were a French taxpayer who just paid €10B to nationalize EDF, I would absolutely ask why you’d prioritize nuclear. Hi, French taxpayer. Because nuclear
by ohgodplsno 4y ago
>If I were a French taxpayer who just paid €10B to nationalize EDF, I would absolutely ask why you’d prioritize nuclear.
Hi, French taxpayer.
Because nuclear _is_ our future. Not unreliable solar panels made with resources that are kind of very limited in their amounts, that need to be changed every 10 years and that only produce electricity during the day. Pushing for all renewables and no more nuclear is pushing for keeping gas power plants open.
Also because holy fuck you could stack 10 nuclear power plants side by side and they'd barely cover the space needed for a single one of these gigantic IKEA parking lots. Land use is not a problem in France, we can find it.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoHow much electricity did Flamanville 3 generate last night? Or Civaux?
- ohgodplsno 4y agoAs much as the not running solar panels. And when it does produce (99% of the time), it absolutely crushes any amount of solar panels.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoCivaux 1 has been down for over a year and Flamanville hasn't produced a single joule in the ten years since it was scheduled to be finished in 2012
- pjc50 4y ago> need to be changed every 10 years This is just false. The design life is 20-25 years, and the system on my roof is approaching year 7 with zero maintenance and no noticeable drop in output. The inverters may need slightly more frequent changes on the 10-15year scale, but a solar panel? It's a big flat diode, guys. There's no moving part larger than an electron, and you don't need to oil electrons.