I mean, yes, the cooling towers are elliptic in shape. No ellipse are not modern: see the celtic symbols, crosses, etc. Or the Eiffel tower for that matter.
There was indeed a time when concrete was admired as a proof of modernity. Nowadays it just ruins the claims to greenness of nuclearpower through CO2 emissions. Especially when you have to try a bunch of times before getting it right (cf Finland EPR. Are they still two years behind schedule sinde they started 3 years ago?)
Or maybe the problems come from the fact that it's partly state sponsored, and therefore inherently inefficient. Let's have Areva get money on the market these days... Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
But I also believe Barsebäck had shorter loan durations than that, and that all the loans, or at least most of them, were already payed off.
Which makes the decision to close the plants even more insane. They were payed off and were in practice printing presses, creating a valuable good with practically no costs at all. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Didn't barsback run into a couple of problems though? there must be a reason why it's those that where closed. I remember Forsmack Had a couple of issues... Wait, where is barseback? isn't it very close to Danemark? this way the government could calm both the greens and the danish...
Gosh I just checked. it was 20km away from Copenhagen. So that's why this one was closed. In france the Nogent Plant is 120km away from Paris, and it's already a huge deal. Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
That was until they were to get their own plants. Which didn't happen as they chose coal instead, killing thousands of Danes every year. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
They have 18.5 % of their electricity coming from wind, when they don't have the best winds ever. They probably aren't as irresponsible as you make it sound. Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
