Exchange electricity prices in France go through the roof

Post by goodpoint » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 10:58 AM UTC

JohnHaugeland wrote: post #49

tucosan wrote: post #43

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In the meantime, a barebones crew operates Chernobyl infrastructure, while the sacrophagus was shelled by Russian troops. Europes nuclear power Zaporizhzhia plant is surrounded by Russian troops and sustained damage: > At 11:28pm local time on the 3 March 2022, a column of 10 Russian armored vehicles and two tanks cautiously approached the Power Plant.[18][19][20] The action commenced at 12:48am on the 4 March when U…

> In the meantime, a barebones crew operates Chernobyl infrastructure, while the sacrophagus was shelled by Russian troops. and even under these conditions, once again, zero deaths the point you're trying to make actually works against you

Post by scrollaway » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 11:44 AM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #59

marbu wrote: post #9

About 1/2 of nuclear power plants in France are down because of maintenance and/or repairs[1][2]: > France's nuclear fleet has been hit by unprecedented outages this winter with half of its 56 reactors currently unavailable. This is happening in a country where most people use electric heating[3] while the temperatures dropped a bit recently (minimal temperatures are mostly below zero centigrade, while max. doesn't g…

Yet another reason that nuclear isn't the panacea it is presented as here.

Post by cinntaile » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 12:34 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #73

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #59

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Yet another reason that nuclear isn't the panacea it is presented as here.

We export a lot of our electricity. I suspect that hasn’t suddenly stopped just because some of our plants are offline. There’s no country on earth which can give lessons to France on energy independence ESPECIALLY NOW, honestly.

Post by Valgrim » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

spupe wrote: post #74

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #59

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Yet another reason that nuclear isn't the panacea it is presented as here.

Nuclear is the worst form of stable, non-fossil fuel energy source, except all the other ones we tried. Or do you have an alternative in mind?

Post by lm28469 » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #59

marbu wrote: post #9

About 1/2 of nuclear power plants in France are down because of maintenance and/or repairs[1][2]: > France's nuclear fleet has been hit by unprecedented outages this winter with half of its 56 reactors currently unavailable. This is happening in a country where most people use electric heating[3] while the temperatures dropped a bit recently (minimal temperatures are mostly below zero centigrade, while max. doesn't g…

Yet another reason that nuclear isn't the panacea it is presented as here.