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Old 10-14-2025 | 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Hotel Kilo
What non-sense is that? That wind and solar are not viable or reliable sources of energy? They're most certainly not. What's France doing now BTW? Germany? Building traditional plants - to include nuclear.

It's all out there OOfff and belittling us and inferring we are less than intelligent on the matter and you are the "expert" is the mentality that puts in the place where we can't have nice things. It's not binary OOfff. We've tried the grand experiment and it doesn't work. You've met the enemy and he is you (POGO).

Nothing wrong with using wind and/or solar to supplement traditional power, but it's been proven that relying solely on it for the majority of supply to your grid is a fools errand. Pound for pound, liter to liter organic fuels are absolutely the most efficient and least costly. Nuclear has come a long way as well. The new reactors Westinghouse has designed are quite impressive. You should go read up on them.
Curious where you are getting your info. France is doing fine.

Nuclear power increased in 2024 as EDF addressed corrosion issues that affected nuclear generation beginning in 2021 and implemented a program designed to make maintenance outages at its reactors more efficient. The French government continues to consider nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, which involves integrating nuclear power alongside renewable electricity technologies.

The second-largest source of power generation in France is hydropower, which increased from 58 TWh in 2023 to 75 TWh in 2024. By comparison, electricity generation from fossil sources decreased, from 32 TWh to 20 TWh. Wind power decreased from 51 TWh to 47 TWh.
Carbon neutrality. Scary





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