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After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.
This is a myth. France also does not exist in isolation. It is perfectly possible to get enough energy from solar and wind combined with storage and energy trade
That’s a great supported argument. The only argument I made that requires a source is the one about the house. I based that 20k and 500k on my own (dutch) house, which runs net-zero spread over the entire year, but produces less than 1kWh per day in january. I would need aproximately 7 more rooftops to cover my power needs during winter, or about ~400k in lithium cells (plus charge controllers, converters, etc) to store power for half a year. Exluding the emotional cost of my fire insurance laughing in my face when I propose this.
Would you like to explain why this is a myth, or where exactly I’m wrong?
Also, France is currently one of the largest electricity exporters specifically because of super cheap nuclear power. They indeed don’t exist in isolation.