Are you sure? I can still read it?

Yeah, it’s say’s it was deleted by the creator, anyway that not what’s important here

No I am not. I stated that the need for importing energy is dangerously high when the nuclear plants are offline.

You’ve stated :

Your nuclear plants are most of the time turned off because they aren’t working properly which destabilizes the entire European grid because you need to import so much electricity from your neighbours.

The way your statement is worded imply this is a common occurrence when I’m fact it is usually the other way around, France supply a lot of energy to it’s neighbors

Additional France WAS a net exporter. 2022 it was importing more than exporting.

Yes in 2022 a year spectacularly weird for energy production everywhere in Europe thanks to the Ukrainian situation

But in 2023 France export more than import again Source : https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/01/17/la-france-est-redevenue-premiere-exportatrice-d-electricite-en-europe-en-2023_6211385_3234.html

But anyway this is unrelated to my comment. I was talking about shutdowns due to technical issues and repairments. The larger one 2022 is also the reason why the ex/import balance shifted. Just as I claimed.

It’s not clear from your text than this was your original intention

I said it was implemented to dampen the effects on inflation. Rising prices fueled (and still fuels) fears in the population which the right wing parties happily exploit.

No you did not say that, you said:

The only reason why your electricity is still so cheap is because your nuclear plants are so heavily subsidised by the state and the exploding energy prices in the recent past have also been capped by the state fearing the right wing uprise.

Inflation doesn’t appear in your text

Furthermore, even if you say that now, the capping of electricity prices are not only to combat inflation, but yes it is a reason, one other is to prevent private company to dictate the price of electricity, as an “essential” it’s important that every one in the country can afford electricity, it’s the same thing here for medication for exemple, state chose the price for almost every medicine you can buy in France

I didn’t pinned down anything myself. The concerns of economists and the EU are indeed about France fiscal deficits. The EU started a penalty process just a few days ago because of it

That’s can be an entire new discussion (that I will not engage here, because I’m, and I think you too, as almost everyone, have not all the keys to discuss it) but economists say’s a lot of things about this subject and forget that’s France is it’s own country and by that, have it’s own way of thinking about debt, for many french leftist economists (not all obviously), debt is a good thing for exemple and that impact the way we use and think gouvernement funding

If you’re interested I can link you to some resources on the question (albeit in french sorry)

PS: Sadly as I’m rereading my message, I’m realizing that the tone of it is harsher than I want it to be, buy I don’t have the time or the energy to rewrite it in a more tasteful maner, sorry again

It’s also really weird because discussing a topic like this is heavily impacted by where you come from. For exemple the discussion about nuclear energy cannot be the same in France, China, USA or Russia and I see almost everyone here talking the thing like the choice between Nuclear Energy or not (because it’s should never be about Nuclear Energy or Renewable Energy) was the same everywhere on the planet.

So here we are, a lot of people talking to themselves instead of talking with each other, hammering their idea on the topic without even once considering that others living in others places and living in others conditions will approach the subject differently (and than it should be normal and comprehensible)

The above comment have been deleted so I cannot judge what was said

But, as a french person myself, I can assure you that the state of Nuclear Energy in France is a very complicated topic and you do yourself a disservice talking about it in this fashion

Furthermore, what you state is plainly wrong:

• France export more than import energy

• Nuclear Power plant goes down first on the network because there are more “pilotable” meaning you can start it or reduce their output more easily than others sources of electrical power

• the caping of electricity price is a leftist policy, the right has nothing to do with it and in fact, this is an another very complicated topic that needs to be researched before discussing

• France economy is instable right now yes, but pinning this on government debt is surely a drastic oversimplification of the problem and is more telling of your view of my Country than the effective state of our economy

I’ll accept that maybe my vision of the suburbs is biased by films and TV shows 😅

I live in a city where temperature could realistically go to 110° F (that’s about 40~45° C for me) in summer but here bus and tram have AC and there is water fountains (decorative and drinkable) everywhere + the city try to maintain vegetation despite heat waves. So even if it’s hot outside, felt air temperature is actually way cooler.

I’ll admit this is very dependent of where you live, the climate around you, water availability and other things, but certainly it’s doable in some places of the US. For others places, in between accomodations can be found. Walkable cities are not a black and white sets of solution there’s levels, hierarchical implementations, etc

I don’t live in the US so maybe I’m mistaken but in my opinion a possibility could be :

Wait for a small group of houses in the suburbs to be available (preferably towards the center) and transform them in convenience stores, schools, office space, etc

Next you can link multiple suburbs like that with train/tram or metro for exemple. And you can even leave roads connecting zones for delivery or for people needing to go to another town or things like that

Couple that to a good public transport system overall and now you’re living in a space were there’s less danger due to car circulation, you don’t need to drive multiple km to do groceries, kids can walk(or commute via PT) to school, etc

Edit: Naturally this would not be feasible in a year or two but I can easily see this implemented in 5 to 10 year time