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And yet it's France that is bracing for rolling blackouts this winter, and has been importing electricity from Germany all year.
by KarlKemp 4y ago
And yet it's France that is bracing for rolling blackouts this winter, and has been importing electricity from Germany all year.
- panick21_ 4y agoFrance had clean energy for 40 years but somehow nobody cares about that. In reality CO2 saved then is far more valuable then saved now. So people over and over bring up this one year where France has some maintenance problem but somehow 40 years of brown coal in Germany is just considers unimportant, not to mention the still extensive use of coal now in Germany. So how about instead of constantly shitting on France and Nuclear we look at the basic facts of what was actually good for humanity and what was a disaster. Also, most nuclear plants should be back by then, some already, they are 'bracing' themselves in case of emergency and because anti-nuclear people have hyped this issue to a frenzy on social media. And the French problems with nuclear now are 95% related to the last 20 years of anti-nuclear politics and specially the outright attack on nuclear by the Holland government where critical maintenance was ignored because they lived in a fantasy world where renwables were just gone do everything. This has been well documented. Even before that France just stopped building new plants and started to use more and more LNG because of the opposition to nuclear and now they are eating the fruits of that. Not to mention canceling amazing projects like the Superphénix reactor. France is still living of the glory days of nuclear from the 70/80s. Its ridiculous, 20 years of sensible energy policy with 1960s tech is all that is required and yet most governments can't figure it out.