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France launches 1.5 billion euro solar plan
French Minister of Ecology says solar plants would have the capacity to generate 300 MW of electricity?more than four times the country's current installed capacity. - Read More
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Topics : Solar Energy
RES group has 4 GW wind energy installed
Renewable Energy Systems Group (RES)1 has now built over 4GW of wind energy capacity worldwide following commissioning of the 50 MW Pays de St Seine wind farm in France - Read More
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Topics : Wind Energy
Collaboration to build a nuclear fusion plan
Cadarache, in southern France, will be the location of ITER, a multinational, $12 billion collaboration to build a nuclear-fusion plan (2006 data)
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Topics : Nuclear Energy
Countries that dominate biodiesel and ethanol
Production of bioethenol is dominated by Brazil (based on sugarcane) and the US (based on maize and soy bean); France, Germany and Italy dominate biodiesel production. - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy
France doesn't have a closed nuclear cycle
While France is a leader in nuclear energy - it has a fabulous % of its electricity needs being met by nuclear - I understand that it does not have a closed cycle for nuclear energy, that is, it does not yet have a mechanism by which the nuclear waste can be used again for fuel, but rather, the waste is stored somewhere and there is no perfect solution for that either...now, that has been a thorn in the flesh...
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Topics : Nuclear Energy
France produces 90% electricity from nuclear!
That's quite a stunningly large % - Read More
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Topics : Nuclear Energy
Tidal Energy in UK & France
UK is weighing a plan to place a 10-mile-long “barrage,” a sort of dam, across the Severn Estuary between Wales and southwest England. The rise and fall of the estuary’s 48-foot tides would spin turbines, like a hydroelectric dam, but it would work both ways, as the tide roared in and out. The $29 billion tidal-power scheme is being fought on economic and environmental grounds, and its fate is uncertain. A similar, smaller barrage has been producing energy in France for 40 years.
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Topics : Ocean Energy
France generates 80% of electricity from nuclear energy!
France, the world's leading country in nuclear power which produces 80 per cent of electricity from atomic energy - Read More
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Topics : Nuclear Energy