Comment by p2detar
3 days ago
I’m honestly not sure I understand. All electricity export charts I see show France as a net exporter of electricity and by a huge margin. What am I missing?
3 days ago
I’m honestly not sure I understand. All electricity export charts I see show France as a net exporter of electricity and by a huge margin. What am I missing?
Nuclear works, it's just more expensive. We can quibble over other things (land use, nuclear waste, nuclear proliferation, embedded carbon, energy independence, social licensing, construction time, local insolation levels and seasonality), but 90% of the equation is just cost. Nuclear is damn expensive compared to wind and solar.
When France and Germany built their nuclear, solar and wind was too expensive. But it's changed now. Nobody should decomission nuclear plants that already exist, because the fixed costs are already paid for, but building new ones doesn't make economic sense.