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I did not really assign any priority between wind and nuclear, and the arguments I presented don't really either.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 02:05:26 PM EST
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