Germany (One year graph): https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data?market_area=DE-LU&tr...
Now for some extra fun, overlay this with graphs over CO2 emissions.
Some other fun: Overlay this with a graph of nuclear waste production.
All plants, worldwide over all human history, for 20% of the power production of the entire planet, 100% green, have produced less than one half of one football field of barrels.
We can stop climate change on one field of barrels every 31 years
Thanks to mining byproducts, nuclear produces less and lower level radioactive waste than solar or wind
Zero humans in history have died from nuclear waste
It's just something scared people say to sound like they know something important
1. https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radio...
This red cube is the entire amount of nuclear waste produced by France. And you'll never get in contact with any of it. On the other hand do you know what's filtering coal and gas particulates out of the air ? Your lungs every single day of your life
ah, and coal emits more dangerous radioactive waste than nuclear power plants, and again, your lungs are getting their fare share of it: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
We could graph how much money Germany is funding the Russian military by buying gas, coal and oil. We could also graph how much radioactive particels get released into the environment through fossil fuel combustion. However both would just correlate directly with how much fossil fuel they consume which would then follow the graph of CO2 emissions. One line is plenty enough to describe all those things without having to be too explicit about the trade offs being made in Germany compared to France.
* Install a single swimming pool. Maybe a hot tub. Leave out Tiki bar.
* Put 'waste' there.
* Realize this argument is stupid.
> 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 go over 10 C)[4]. Moreover the ongoing Russian war doesn't exactly help here.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc... [2] https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insigh... [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-hou... [4] https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/forecastmaps?LA...
Not to invoke the Russian boogeyman. But I wonder.
There’s no country on earth which can give lessons to France on energy independence ESPECIALLY NOW, honestly.
the more interesting question is why the oil and water-energy exporter Norway got so much more expensive domestic energy prizes since it joined the European energy market.
The gap is growing.
When it comes to complete costs of reliable gridpower an adequately spread-out mix of renewables may also be cheaper. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...
And it would be more like Saudi Arabia claiming that oil only costs $100 per barrel because they don't need to pay for pollution remediation, healthcare costs, spill cleanup and their share of all climate change effects from the time they sold the oil until the time that oil's effects have been removed from the system. Which they don't.
It all gets built way quicker too. No 15 year lead times setting up solar panel farms can be done in 6 months. Pumped storage projects can be done in a couple of years. Each small scale quick and cheap project takes a chunk out of our reliance on natgas.
People way underestimate just how fantastically expensive nuclear power is and how unviable it is without lavish subsidies that other renewables dont need.
It'll keep getting built in countries with nuclear arsenals though coz it can share some of those costs. Thats ultimately why we get barraged with so much pro nuclear power propaganda. It aint about reliability, it's about the military industrial complex foisting costs off on to rate and taxpayers.
Obviously when Iran does this we are made aware of how awful and wrong it is but it's greenwashed under the carpet 100% of the rest of the time.
France is in a much better position.
This is what I found "In 2020, France exported a total of nearly 78 terawatt hours of electricity. Meanwhile, electricity imports to France amounted to nearly 35 terawatt hours in total that year."
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1279015/france-electrici...
im interestes to hear more about the French Republic paying some.of the cost. do consumers just see a reduced rate on their bills, or is it clear that the state paid some of their bill? is thhe state blanketly paying out the same amount per use for everyone & every company, subsidizing by use, or are there limits or preconditions that apply?
Usually, this offering is overpriced but nowadays, it’s the cheapest way to get electricity.
So EDF, as a company, is currently, technically, taking the loss. But the French state is the main shareholder of EDF and can inject capital with public money into EDF if needed.
Other electricity providers are just loosing customers. But in France, electricity providers are not electricity producers, they are just intermediates between the consumer and the producer, so they can die and I don’t care. At least, EDF is state owned, main producer, main provider and the means of production (nuclear plants) have all been paid by public money.
The only solution is to increase transmission capacity, but that's not easy with NIMBY challenges.
https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix
Import/exports are here:
https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...
Yesterday France imported between 6 and 10 GW, a lot from Germany
