France and Italy: is nuclear power the way for energy independence?
Posted by Luke Weston on March 28, 2008
I’m quite a fan of The Oil Drum, and the very interesting posts and very lively discussions that go on over there.
Here’s a very good recent post about nuclear energy in France, and the potential gains from a nuclear energy renaissance (how appropriate!) in Italy.
The discussion thread is very very long - and makes for extremely interesting discussion.
If there’s one thing they know about on The Oil Drum, it’s EROEI:
“Reality continues to make a fool of van Leeuwen.”
April 2, 2008 at 5:19 pm
“If there’s one thing they know about on The Oil Drum, it’s EROEI:”
Not everyone there knows EROEI. There are still some there who think you have to multiply electricity consumption by 3 to account for thermal conversion efficiency.