From what I can find, with my limited french skills, EDF isn’t getting much in the way of subsidies. The 70 euro soft-ceiling was a massive raise to fund new reactors, it used be ~40 euro’s for 25% of power and they ran fine on that.
Tell me why I should wait decades for a single power plants worth of capacity
It’s more like “A decade”, and i’ll explain, because it’s actually much less nice than these infographics show.
So, doing the maths for you: 1 Wp ~ 0.85 kWh over a year. So 10 gWp ~ 8.5 gWh per year. But they only produce about 3% of that in winter, so about 255mWh in januari or december. That boils down to about 1/8th of a nuclear reactor. So, in reality it takes it takes at least 8 years to match one nuclear reactors, assuming you like keeping the lights on during winter.
But it gets worse, because they produce that power over about 8 hours (being generous) and don’t do anything during the other 16. So on top of literally an entire nation’s worth of solar panel growth you need to also STORE that power for at least 16 hours. Thankfully, Germany also added about 7.3 gWh in 2025, which is enough to cover that with (some) room to spare.
You could, of course, build two reactors at the same though. You can’t really double a country’s solar growth. And nuclear plants have MUCH longer lifespans than solar panels and especially batteries.
And most oft all, I don’t have to care about hazardous waste disposal for centuries to come.
Tell me, how much nuclear waste is there actually? Like, take a guess how much waste that takes centuries is actually produced per, I dunno, human-lifetime-of-power.
I wasn’t refering to you personally.
I was refering mostly to the anti-nuclear crusaders from the 70’s and 80’s who were so anti-war, they figured “Nuclear bomb bad, so nuclear bad”, and decided that civilian powerplants were building bombs without any evidence (or even basic understanding) and thus everything related to nuclear power was the devil and needed to stop.
Of course, if you do believe that or their propaganda, I actually was talking to you. The maths aren’t hard though, you can do them yourself. The nuclear industry is incredibly transparent and you can google almost anything. That, of course, makes it very prone to lies and deliberate misinterpretation, for example when people say there are huge amount of nuclear waste! (which is sort-of-true, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of it is low-level).
Tell me you don’t understand waste handling without saying you don’t understand waste handling. There are “temporary” solutions for ALL waste ever.
Nuclear waste is such a tiny little problem, that stacking every spent fuel rod ever, inside it’s storage cask, in one pile wouldn’t even fill a decent soccer stadium. If you just looked at the fuel itself, the same waste wouldn’t even reach your knees. If you powered your entire life with nuclear power (and I mean transportation, manufacturing, heating, lighting, etc) with nuclear power, the resulting spent nuclear fuel for your entire family would be slightly less than a 1-inch cube.
I can’t stress enough how nuclear waste is a total non-issue that was invented by the fossil fuel industry and misguided idiots who understand neither basic physics or (much less basic) general waste handling.
France also has some of the cheapest power in the world, at the lowest CO2 output, specifically BECAUSE they run a high percentage of nuclear.
Solarpower installed in 2023 equals 6 nuclear power plants
You can’t compare wattpeak numbers with 24/7 all-year generation capacity… That’s like saying I should skydive to work because I’d get there 10 times faster faster than by riding a bike.
This is a myth
That’s a great supported argument. The only argument I made that requires a source is the one about the house. I based that 20k and 500k on my own (dutch) house, which runs net-zero spread over the entire year, but produces less than 1kWh per day in january. I would need aproximately 7 more rooftops to cover my power needs during winter, or about ~400k in lithium cells (plus charge controllers, converters, etc) to store power for half a year. Exluding the emotional cost of my fire insurance laughing in my face when I propose this.
Would you like to explain why this is a myth, or where exactly I’m wrong?
Also, France is currently one of the largest electricity exporters specifically because of super cheap nuclear power. They indeed don’t exist in isolation.
So, “the cheapest option” if you live in Los Angeles AND you lie about cost of nuclear power. It would cost 135 euro/mWh in Birmingham, which is comparable to Paris in sun-hours. Call it 120 to be nice. Nuclear power in France costs 70 euros/mWh
And those French nuclear plants are all running at 70%, this solar solution would be fully capped out.
Why have we seen some countries try to revive nuclear? It is not better than alternatives.
What alternatives? Gas? Coal?
Solar and wind are amazing for reducing the need for other power generation when they’re working, but there aren’t any realistic alternatives if you want power on a winter night. You need several Frances worth of solar panels to provide power in January, for example.
Yes, there are numerous days when solar can run a country, overproducing power that could be stored. But there are also plenty of days it doesn’t, and you need a solution for that too. Would you prefer it to have its waste in barrels, or pumped into the air?
Nuclear is expensive because it’s the only energy source that works 24/7 and takes care of all of its waste. Solar is great, but if you include all the batteries needed to run 24/7, that 20k investment for a house becomes a 500k investment. Fossil fuels are only cheap because they don’t include the absolutely insane cost of climate change. Wind is great but suffers from the same problem as solar, plus its much more location limited. Hydro and geothermal are amazing, but its orders of magnitude worse than wind for scale and placement.
Leaving us only with nuclear power, which is actually diet cheap once you include the externalities of the other alternatives.
It also doesn’t look like him.
zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.
Zebra’s don’t like anyone, and they’re not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.
I could not agree less.
You can’t spend most of your time in more than one country. I think multiple citizenship is absurd and being a citizen of a country you’re never in is even weirder.
If you want to live in a country longterm, you should be a citizen there. Vice versa, if you don’t live in a country long-term, you shouldn’t.
And I say this as someone who was birth-loopholed into three citizenships. It’s frankly absurd that I can vote in countries I visit maybe every other year.
She stole a dog from a 4 year old orphan.
Jesus fucking Christ, that’s just too absurdly evil for a children’s book.
I’m not saying you’re weak but: https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/
Both is good.
Thanks ChatGPT!
Loads of regulations related to banking
Ehhhhh I would say quite a few banking regulations are there for good reasons. But I’m not a banker, so maybe I’m missing a lot.
I love how incredibly childish bdzero is about their defederation (is it? They called it something else) from feddit.
I especially love how they brought numerous removed posts that had people being complete fuck heads, and said it was because of zionism as the justification.
Honestly, “adult” is something you should do, not something you should be.
And LOTs of people are shit at it. Especially the ones who claim otherwise.
Looks like Morrowind, or an earlier Elder scrolls. You can make, and name, your own custom classes.