Next week, France is forced yet again to reduce output and in some cases completely shut down nuclear reactors as the high temperatures heats up the cooling water they take from rivers beyond acceptable limits. This is the new normal now and will only get worse over the following years as we collectively ignore #ClimateChange

@jwildeboer Well, fuck.

*I guess they'll just have to make up the difference by burning fossil fuels**

**jk (kind of )

@Gorfram @jwildeboer I suspect France would be well served by battery + solar investments.

It's probably cheaper to build by now.

@A_denie @Gorfram @jwildeboer No. See Aeris' post above for example. And as expensive as a nuclear plant is (especially once you have massacred the professional expertise), renewables have very low power density even if a single solar panel or wind turbine seems cheap.