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7. Compare the price of electricity in nuclear France to that in anti-nuclear Germany.
Sun Jun 23, 2024, 01:23 AM
Jun 2024

German residential and small business users are paying 53 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity. In France they pay 28 cents. In Denmark, with natural gas and wind power, electricity is 43 cents a kilowatt hour.

Compare France's carbon intensity to Germany's.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

Wind and solar power only increase the price of electricity and will not reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions enough to matter, if at all, since they will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels.

Hybrid natural gas / solar / wind power grids are expensive. Should the U.S.A. regain the ability to mass produce nuclear power plants of any type these so-called "renewable" energy systems will become redundant and too costly to maintain.

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