The problem is all the existing plants are aging fast. It'll take decades to license, build and get on line enough to replace the aging reactors let alone the hundreds required to replace fossil fuels.
I think you'll find that all the existing plants are aging at one year per year. Ok, thats the speed of light, but that's the only speed available in the 4th dimension.
On a less flippant note: It took France 15 years to build it's entire fleet of 56 power plants.
The French power industry is owned by the government
No it isn't. EDF is not the only generator in France
and it is doubtful how competitive it would be without its monopoly status in France. When you are outside France, buying subsidized French electricity is an excellent idea.
Untrue. The EU is forcing France to raise its electricity prices because the unsubsidised price of EDF's electricty makes it hard for others to compete.
It does cause massive, MASSIVE confusion if you look beyond that. Currently Nokia has the following platforms:
Symbian ^3, Symbian S40 (Feature phones aka dumbphones),
The confusion has been there for a long time, S40 isn't Symbian.
Surely someone who had an N900 is capable of installing a custom ROM and/or converting the filesystem to ext4 which would overcome many of these issues you described.
People who have N900's don't know how to "install a custom ROM" (how? With a soldering iron?)
It [ the car ] gives me freedom to go wherever I want, whenever I want. I am hostage to nothing but the supply of gasoline.
I pointed out that you'd forgotten that you need roads as well.
This seems to have offended you, first you quibbled that cars could go off road, now you seem to think that roads are just magicly "there" and don't need the same kind of financing, construction and maintenance as any other kind of transport infrastructure.
Your car isn't the source of your freedom, it's (as always) society.
> You can rent a car by the hour for those trips to IKEA.
Funny you should mention that. Don't IKEA have their own buses where you live? They do here. Free transport to and from the warehouse every hour. I wonder why large warehouses outside cities don't do that more often.
They don't do that where I live, the bastards. Even getting into the store as a pedestrian requires frightening slaloming between the hundreds of cars.
And don't get me going about the horror that is trying to get them to deliver stuff instead of taking it away in your car.
Slashdot Mirror
No.
Stuff that matters?
No.
Boring.
Depends ... they didn't say whose brain!
How about Abby? You know, Abby Normal?
Well, since he's ICL professor of computer engineering I'd expect it to run George 3 or VME/B.
But, then again, maybe it'd run BBC Basic?
Maybe later.
I'm off to kill some White Legs in Zion canyon now.
Your knowledge of General Relativity (or even Special Relativity) seems to be lacking.
A PWR is big and heavy, but not that heavy.
So making a 1G EUR profit is a sign of selling at a loss?
How does that work exactly?
First they'll have to make a nuclear plant that turns a profit without public subsidies.
France already has 56 of them.
(EDF made a profit of 1G EUR in 2010, down from 3.9G EUR in 2009 due to reduced demand).
The problem is all the existing plants are aging fast. It'll take decades to license, build and get on line enough to replace the aging reactors let alone the hundreds required to replace fossil fuels.
I think you'll find that all the existing plants are aging at one year per year. Ok, thats the speed of light, but that's the only speed available in the 4th dimension.
On a less flippant note: It took France 15 years to build it's entire fleet of 56 power plants.
Sorry, please re-read your source.
It's claiming that installed capacity is greater for renewables than nuclear.
But as I am sure you know wind and solar don't run at 100%.utilisation (small problems like windless days and that "night" thing).
(Throughout the whole document cited they never once give a figure for actual electricty generated from renewables, they only talk about capacity).
Germany used to export. It now imports.
The shortfall will be made up by bringing online new coal and lignite burning plants. Thanks for all that extra CO2.
France imports electricty for a few days in the summer. It exports the rest of the year round.
But Barbara Amiel is mad. Why should I care what she thinks?
"Some demographers" that she pulled out of her arse think that "as much as 20-30 per cent of the population under 25 is now Muslim".
I happen to live in the Parisien Banlieu, and I can tell you she's full of shit.
The French power industry is owned by the government
No it isn't. EDF is not the only generator in France
and it is doubtful how competitive it would be without its monopoly status in France. When you are outside France, buying subsidized French electricity is an excellent idea.
Untrue. The EU is forcing France to raise its electricity prices because the unsubsidised price of EDF's electricty makes it hard for others to compete.
It does cause massive, MASSIVE confusion if you look beyond that. Currently Nokia has the following platforms: Symbian ^3, Symbian S40 (Feature phones aka dumbphones),
The confusion has been there for a long time, S40 isn't Symbian.
Combine that with alloy case [...]
Polycarbonate.
* (and you will be able to put a more recent battery in with Nokia)
Maybe not. It has a fixed battery.
Surely someone who had an N900 is capable of installing a custom ROM and/or converting the filesystem to ext4 which would overcome many of these issues you described.
People who have N900's don't know how to "install a custom ROM" (how? With a soldering iron?)
They know how to do apt-get upgrade.
I didn't post to have intelligent discussion, if that's what you mean. ;)
No, you post hoping someone will offer their butt to be licked.
(And I can joke about it, because I'll be getting an N950 if at all possible, and probably an N9 as well.)
I doubt it. AFAIK you can't buy the N950, it's given (lent?) to developpers only.
Buggeration
Bollocks. That's a FOBS. Wonder who we're going to be pointing it at.
Hey, how did they know my password?
I pointed out that you'd forgotten that you need roads as well.
This seems to have offended you, first you quibbled that cars could go off road, now you seem to think that roads are just magicly "there" and don't need the same kind of financing, construction and maintenance as any other kind of transport infrastructure.
Your car isn't the source of your freedom, it's (as always) society.
English soccer hooliganism was never attributed to anarchists, but to crazy drunk Englishmen.
Actualy quite a lot of English football hooliganism is a recruting tactic by various facist groups.
So, you just drive through peoples back gardens to express the ultimate freedom that your car gives you.
Oh yes it does.
> You can rent a car by the hour for those trips to IKEA.
Funny you should mention that. Don't IKEA have their own buses where you live? They do here. Free transport to and from the warehouse every hour. I wonder why large warehouses outside cities don't do that more often.
They don't do that where I live, the bastards. Even getting into the store as a pedestrian requires frightening slaloming between the hundreds of cars.
And don't get me going about the horror that is trying to get them to deliver stuff instead of taking it away in your car.
Which I don't have.