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And that 63% is far lower than any country/region at that latitude that doesn't have lucky geography for hydro power. And that 63% can be easily reduced in Fran

And that 63% is far lower than any country/region at that latitude that doesn't have lucky geography for hydro power. And that 63% can be easily reduced in France by introducing heatpumps and EVs, but the same is not true in the UK/Germany/Poland without building metric arseloads of zero-carbon power plants.

natmaka 3y ago
> 63% is far lower Nope. We have to take into account consumption-based CO₂ emissions: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?time=1974..latest&facet=none&country=FRA~DEU~DNK https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?... > that 63% can be easily reduced in France by introducing heatpumps and EVs Nope, as it is only possible by generating more gridpower, and France tries to do so using nuclear since 2007... in vain as the sole and only nuclear reactor being built in France (which should have started a new batch in 2012) is the 'Flamanville-3' EPR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Unit_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan... > the same is not true in the UK/Germany/Poland without building metric arseloads of zero-carbon power plants. There is no 'zero-carbon plants', only 'low-carbon plants'. They all do so, much more efficiently than France (where electricity is already low-carbon but where the plan to pump up more nuclear is stuck) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart&time=2000..latest&country=FRA~GBR~DEU~POL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-car... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-renewables?region=Europe https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-renewables?...