France dumps Renewables Target, goes back to Nuclear instead- France wants “energy security” as opposed to energy slavery ( where nations hope their enemies will be nice to them when they get cold.)
Posted by freedomforall 3 months, 3 weeks ago to Technology
Excerpt:
"In a radical move, the French government has quietly dropped their renewables targets from their draft energy bill, risking being seen as unfashionable losers in billionaire ski clubs. The nation that, forty years ago, built 56 nuclear reactors in 15 years has decided they just need to build another 6 to 14 new nuclear plants to reach “Net Zero” by 2050. This puts them in danger of being one of the only nations on Earth that might reach their target.
This, of course, is terrible for the renewables industry as it risks exposing the wanton frivolity and utterly superfluous nature of the wind and solar subsidy farms. If France can do this without the bird chopping, the slave labor and the lithium bombs, so can nearly everywhere else.
It’s a big change from 2014 when France aimed to reduce nuclear power to just 50% by 2025."
"In a radical move, the French government has quietly dropped their renewables targets from their draft energy bill, risking being seen as unfashionable losers in billionaire ski clubs. The nation that, forty years ago, built 56 nuclear reactors in 15 years has decided they just need to build another 6 to 14 new nuclear plants to reach “Net Zero” by 2050. This puts them in danger of being one of the only nations on Earth that might reach their target.
This, of course, is terrible for the renewables industry as it risks exposing the wanton frivolity and utterly superfluous nature of the wind and solar subsidy farms. If France can do this without the bird chopping, the slave labor and the lithium bombs, so can nearly everywhere else.
It’s a big change from 2014 when France aimed to reduce nuclear power to just 50% by 2025."
Come on liquid sodium cooled thorium reactors already. China has them!
Free the People from power monopolies.
..renewable energy is free, clean and cheaper than anything else -they tell us
but somehow the government still has to force people to use it
and set targets or no one will build it.
The unwashed masses must be too stupid.
Those 'unwashed masses' have a great tool called the 'market price'.
Using that tool, the masses are not buying renewables when cheaper are available.
Governments are trying to destroy that tool with subsidies.
So in France, the government is putting France first.
Does that work here?
It hasn't been working in Australia in the past 10 years, has it?
Closing coal fired power stations producing relatively
cheap, relatively clean, reliable electricity.
I had to return to the US in '14 because Aussie immigration didn't want me
to stay although I had ample funds to support myself for years.
Maybe they had read my posts in the Gulch, but I doubt it. ;^)
I was trying to sell efficiency products to mining and power companies
to reduce their use of petroleum fuels.
Naw, wouldn't want that sort of stuff.
Energy policy in the US- well Trump gave oil Independence, now it back to the need for imports. As for Australia, blessed with an abundance of energy sources especially coal, natural gas and uranium, to appreciate what governments have done requires an ultra-macabre sense of humor.
Examples, uranium mining is banned, coal mine development stuck in legal warfare, long term natural gas contracts with China with no escalation in price setting, coal power stations blown up on retirement. The only beneficiary is China who get top quality Australian coal in big amounts at a good price to give their industry low cost power.
Readers comments on that JoanneNova link are favorable to getting going on nuclear power. But for Australia, coal of fair quality is available all over, much coal is top quality, there are very large resources of brown coal in one state (Victoria), cheap to mine. There is technology, German, and I think US, for power plants using brown coal at levels of emissions as low as could be specified. But, Victoria is trying to place wind turbines out in Southern Ocean deep water. Very high construction cost, very costly maintenance, short life...
bird and whale killing at no extra cost. ..
Migration- only one type is now wanted- their is no land border to cross so the government flies them in. Soc Sec payments made to second wives, police escorts at racist demos, prayer rooms at state universities, and so on.
Your description almost makes me glad I wasn't allowed to stay, but except for firearm ownership it's not any better in USA and at least the Australian election wasn't as obviously stolen on election day.
Both countries' People must stand up for their rights or suffer the consequences, imo.
What do you say to that, all into energy slavery Quid Pro Quo, $ell-Out China Joe?
"Uh, where . . . where is pants? Um , what am I . . .doing here? Jill, what is hooray for pants all about?"
It ALMOST BEGS for a One World Government!
That's how government always operates: create a big problem so they can expand government power.
Centralized power is always anti-freedom and too often genocidal, that is, anti-life.