> We’re Europe’s largest exporter of electricity, thanks to our nuclear power.
None of your relevant stats actually show that, France only shows up in total production, and there it ranks lower than Germany.
It's also a bit odd to now move the goalpost to fossil fuels, when your original point was about electricity exports, and how France can allegedly only export so much due to nuclear power.
But over the years France has been constantly trading places with Germany for top electricity exporter on the planet due to Germany's huge renewable sector.
A renewable sector that has the advantage of not having massive long-term costs associated with it, most of which are not covered to this day [0];
> France, which operates Europe’s largest fleet of nuclear plants, is heavily underfunded. It has earmarked assets only worth 23 billion euros, less than a third of 74.1 billion euros in expected costs.
Quoting the original post I was replying to: "we import electricity from germany that is burning coal for it"
Reality: We're a top exporter of electricity (I'll give you that we're not THE top exporter all the time), and Germany's exports are thanks to its "huge renewable sector" (quoting you).
There are no goalposts to move. This is just a bunch of nonsense. People who want to complain can use whatever stats and values they want to make their point, I guess. retinaros' other posts tells me I should just have flagged and moved on from the beginning, but that leaves the risk of misinformation spreading anyway...
None of your relevant stats actually show that, France only shows up in total production, and there it ranks lower than Germany.
It's also a bit odd to now move the goalpost to fossil fuels, when your original point was about electricity exports, and how France can allegedly only export so much due to nuclear power.
But over the years France has been constantly trading places with Germany for top electricity exporter on the planet due to Germany's huge renewable sector.
A renewable sector that has the advantage of not having massive long-term costs associated with it, most of which are not covered to this day [0];
> France, which operates Europe’s largest fleet of nuclear plants, is heavily underfunded. It has earmarked assets only worth 23 billion euros, less than a third of 74.1 billion euros in expected costs.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP...