France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk)

French president Francois Hollande announced at an annual UN climate change conference on Wednesday that France will shut down all its coal-fired power plants by 2023. He also "vowed to beat by two years the UK's commitment to stop using fossil fuels to generate power by 2025," reports The Independent: Mr Hollande, a keynote speaker at the event in Marrakech, Morocco, also praised his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama for his work on climate change, and then appeared to snub president-elect Donald Trump. "The role played by Barack Obama was crucial in achieving the Paris agreement," Mr Hollande said, before adding, in what has been perceived as a dig at Mr Trump, that becoming a signatory to the treaty is "irreversible." "We need carbon neutrality by 2050," the French President continued, promising that coal will no longer form part of France's energy mix in six to seven years' time. France is already a world leader in low-carbon energy. The country has invested heavily in nuclear power over the past few decades and now derives more than 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear fission. It produces so much nuclear energy, in fact, that it exports much of it to nearby nations, making around $2.66 billion each year.

Comments

Re:What Hollande says

[Anonymous Coward]

Hollande is extremely honest compared to Trump.

Re: What Hollande says

[Anonymous Coward]

That isn't much in the way of praise.

It's like saying you're less of a talentless slut than Paris Hilton, or more pleasant and thoughtful than Ted Nugent, or more likely to win the world series than the Chicago Cubs.

Re:Marrakech, Morocco

[skids]

I was going towards 'hairpiece' myself but then again ....

Rogainosets?

Re:irreversible

[Capsaicin]

You are a hyperbolic idiot, this isn't the Breitbart comment section

And you continue the hyperbole ...

This is the Breitbart comment section?!

Re:What Hollande says

[MrKaos]

This is what happens when something turns into an -ism. I think opposition to nuclear is based more on dogma and irrational fear than anything else at this point.

I'm so very glad you bough that up, check my sig friend, it's not my ism I am talking about.

Here's a thought: maybe we should listen to specialists (say, nuclear scientists and engineers, and throw in some statisticians to tally up safety records) about whether modern nuclear power is safe and effective enough to use.

OK, let me get you started. This is the peer reviewed science that show nuclear power provides no Net Energy Return with contributions from about 10 Universities around the world, including CERN.

Because, I'm pretty sure the science is settled at this point. Should we also should start calling opponents "nuclear deniers"?

That would be like saying climate change is bullshit, but I kind of like it.

Yeah fuckit, I'm a nuclear denier. I deny Nuclear is a real solution to climate change. I'll start calling the nutty nukker fanbois, physics deniers, better FACT deniers or 'unable to provide fact'ers - but I jest ho ho ho.