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As you know, I'm favorable to nuclear, but would still rank it after wind - while saying that it's a necessary part of the mix, at least for the next generation (30-40 years).
As to your point about eliminating gas use, I doubt it's possible or desirable - as the most flexible source, it makes sense to keep gas-fired plants for peak demand, and rapid system adjustments. But that can happen with plants that have only 5-10% effective capacity rates in fine, so the gas consumption will be quite low altogether. I agree that this applies to France as well.
A medium term solution will be the development of things like plug-in hybrid cars, which can provide a LOT of decentralised storage capacity to the network. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
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