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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 11 November | 173 comments (173 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

So what? Did you see vast rolling blackouts? Operating power stations means you will have some downtime, for various reasons. That's not a bug, it's a feature. The alternative is not having electricity at all.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:43:32 AM EST
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Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

Looks like France needs to build more nuclear plants...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:45:40 AM EST
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Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

Certainly not. France already has a suboptimal (=too high) fraction of nuclear power. Just look at the low capacity factors.

At least if you ignore evironmental and security of supply issues, if you include them the the too high nuclear fraction becomes more reasonable.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:52:25 AM EST
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Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

The other problem with ths is the enormous political problems that would be generated by flooding yet more pieces of Wales. It would almost inevitably lead to Welsh independence, rather than filling many more valleys with water, and that would then remover the possibility for this to occur.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:48:02 AM EST
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Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

Oh come on. The only pumped hydro facility in Wales is the Dinorwig station, which is located in an old quarry. I'm not Welsh (or Scottish, the other possible site for plants like this), but I bet the locals would enjoy the say £10-30 billion pound investment a 15-30 year project like this would entail.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:55:30 AM EST
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Re: would this be possible?... (none / 0)

No, the Flooding of Welsh valleys has in the past caused more Welsh nationalism, and even Welsh terrorism, hunger strikes, mass civil disobedience, especially when the main beneficiaries appear to be the English. As a plan it would only be vaguely possible after Welsh independence. Which various other parts of Britain would find Politically impossible

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 06:11:40 AM EST
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