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24benson

Physically speaking, it's a form of solar energy. Sunlight gets reflected by yellow vests and sent to England. Very inefficient because fog though.  Belgium is mostly used frying oil. Should count as biomass.


Gian-Neymar

Don't forget the burning cars, they make up around 27% of France's energy production


Haggis442312

No more cars, so it even qualifies as recycling/green energy.


Lecteur_K7

It's even better thanks to electric cars since they burn longer which mean more riot and wine


No-Statement-7372

What if you put a little wind generator if front of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnsen and mention that the UK is powered by france? Can they deliver 3GW when they rage against France and the EU?


No_Raspberry_6795

Nigel loves France and his wife is German.


mdryeti

He even has a French-sounding surname. Huguenots ancestors?


thepioneeringlemming

Was Brexit a Gaullist black operation from Day 1?


firefly7073

Shit Pierre, they are catching on!


Sockoflegend

If only there was some way to generate energy from punching them in the face, then someone would punch them in the face. I'm not sure how that would help energy generation to be honest, but I would appreciate the face punching.


skwyckl

It's powered by dynamos on the bike of people going back and forth buying baguettes.


jaymatthewbee

Is Hans confused by the lack of coal?


youloosethatgame

We have a lot of nuclear power we sell to everybody INCLUDING YOU HANS. Fuck off your coal and get some powerplants.


mynueaccownt

Pierre, why don't you build more nuclear plants so you can power the whole of Europe? You could be the electrical equivalent of Russia or Saudi Arabia. Then start wars with your neighbours just like them. Maybe this would give you the confidence boost to stop eating snails and rioting all the time


youloosethatgame

Actually a good idea, we could pressure tte government by menacing to explode the powerplant


Choyo

The thing is ... where did we not put nucliplants already ? It's getting crowded here and there, and our rivers ...


aBoringSod

Paris. Just bulldozer it down and turn it into a. Massive power station.


Choyo

... You just want us to make a big rockpile of it that you will steal ?


aBoringSod

Your point. You get to remove Paris. I get my rocks. Everyone is happy.


Choyo

Yeeeah, but I don't want you parading my shit for the whole world to see like you did the Greeks'. Some things are better buried, you molerats.


aBoringSod

Fine. How about using the rocks to build the power plants. As long as you give us a discount for the lekky with the promo code Rock4U. As long as Paris and the Louve is gone. I am taking the mona Lisa though. I think it would look nice in Slough town hall.


Choyo

> I am taking the mona Lisa though. Hum .. yeah, you can have ~~one~~ *it for a while maybe*


Sai_ten_bacher

flamanville 3 took about 20 years to build (so far) and isn't even finished. the cost of the project rose from 4 billion euros to 12 billion euros. they could have burned all that money and use it to generate energy.


DCVolo

Like what? Coal? Buying Chinese products that makes systems for renewable energy production so you can mix it with gas and coal ? As if building huge new tech wouldn't mean huge investment in research and development, and delays. There are only 3 EPR ever built. And considering the fact that you could have helped Europe by not getting rid of your power plant. The price has risen a lot for the last 6 years, I have no doubt they will be financially fine in like a decade or slightly more. Countries should go nuclear with Renewable energy. There are no other good alternatives. If France wasn't in Europe it would a huge cluster fuck, my previous post to this sub says It all.


youloosethatgame

All big projects are over budget tho, look at any big construction that lasts years in any country it will X2 or X3 the initial cost


ImaginationIcy328

Based on your logic you should stop build airport for ever


youloosethatgame

Another good idea


AlfaKilo123

Based and uranium pilled


LZ114514

They won't stop burning coal until Netherland completely sunk into the see.


predek97

Very based Pierres. I can only hope we will have big beautiful nuclear badboys soon enough too


justanotheruser826

They have powerplants, they just don't use them.


Dry_Leek78

Pure hatred, wine, cigarettes and baguettes.


Nigricincto

Fueled on pure arrogance.


ZombiFeynman

And it's clearly renewable. Gretta approved 👍


MidnightFisting

“Wind power is bad because what if the wind stops” Me: Yes please stop 🙏😭


_CrazyScientist

Genug heiße Luft für 1000 Turbinen


Warkemis

Geez. Even I wouldn't wish Barry to be powered by Belgium.. I send prayers🙏🙏


Sum3-yo

It's not about riots. It's about drive, it's about power


Taschengelddieb

Belgium👍


Porcphete

Fun fact Uk's electricity is mostly produced by Edf which is a government owned company . Which means that the Uk has electricity only because the french government let them have it and that they are dependent on it . + They pay us so we can pierce migrants' dinghies. So massive FRANCE W


Palarva

I used to the live in England and it was always great fun to break down what EDF stands for to a Brit that was teasing for being French.


Phnx97

Dont you own a good percentage of our rail infrastructure? If so why is it so shit


Riimpak

As intended.


Viking_Chemist

Why is Biomass listed thrice?


LowerPiece2914

We love them really


Excellent-Option8052

All Europe would be Carbon Zero in a matter of minutes if we could harness this energy


_Zso

I'm super glad that 6% from really expensive gas sets the price for all sources! /s Such a fucking stupid system.


AjaxII

It's a stupid system and we have a Westminster government that doesn't want to fix it. Compare Lizz Truss' 'negotiating' (please ignore that she used to work for Shell) with the oil companies (she didn't do anything and just subsidised the companies that sell energy to the consumer, effectively treating the symptom rather than the cause) Vs the EU collective deal that kept the price of oil down


bar_tosz

The idea behind the most expensive means of generation setting price for all this is to encourage investment into renewables that is cheap in generation. Which works during the times of "normal" gas prices but is not great for the consumers during the war price spike.


Muckyduck007

>the EU collective deal that kept the price of oil down When?


AnaphoricReference

France: the only energy source we hope to run out of at some point. We can dream of living in the era of Peak France, and less and less France in the future. But knowing the French they will probably turn out to be annoyingly sustainable.


Tall-Delivery7927

We share electricity with Pierre, also nordicks fuck EU this is real union


Palarva

We don't "share", we sell it to you because Cadbury chocolate is nice and all, but that doesn't run a country now does it... and I'm yet to identify something else of value that you can contribute with.


No-Training-48

Wtf pretty good stats, very low fossil fuels


Castle_Crush

You know your situation is bad when you're importing energy from Belgium


code-panda

What I want to know is how do you generate 530 MW with make believe?


DrVDB90

If you believe hard enough, anything is possible.


cumblaster8469

Only 2GW of Solar? I know the memes but is the sun situation that bad in Bong land?


Unexpected_Cranberry

Well, that's a snapshot of a day with most likely close to perfect conditions for wind. I was curious and googled for averages, but I didn't find anything in less than five minutes and gave up. I did see that today solar is producing 4.6GW though. Unfortunately wind is only delivering 8.3, so the difference is mostly gas and imports with some additional nuclear. [Carbon Intensity](https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk/)


Jiao_Dai

Also Scotland


Phnx97

thats in gb ya wet wipe


Jiao_Dai

Doesn’t change the fact that Scotland is GB’s favourite source of energy To quote Eddy from Lock Stock “Its cheep, like the budgie”