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Jérôme à Paris
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Jérôme à Paris is a personal blog at jeromeaparis.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “EDF's woes are a bigger long term problem for EU energy than the war in Ukraine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- EDF's woes are a bigger long term problem for EU energy than the war in Ukraine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-24
- How messed up was Germany's energy policy?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-22
- The duck in the room – the end of baseload2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-13
- /p/financing-offshore-wind-part-102 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-24
What Hacker News says?
> but France manages pretty well with 70% of energy coming from nuclear so it is an actually existing counterpoint. How is that embarrassing state "pretty well"? They use dirty power from their neighbours to manage their support holes created through that narrow minded energy infrastructure. Just like every summer, they've been struggling due to too hot rivers and now those "cracks" in those reactors...France has sh…
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on “Nuclear energy is clean”Submitted How messed up was Germany's energy policy? as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI'm sure there are examples of places where neither Wind, Solar nor Hydro is viable. But looking at the EU, it doesn't seem to be the case here and (without looking very deep into it) I'd expect that to transfer to the vast majority of the world. Especially with HVDC for continental-scale electricity transport and the introduction of grid-based storage in the form of P2G (or something else), it's possible to even th…
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on “Many scientists see fusion as the future of energy”Submitted Financing offshore wind as a story · 95 points
HN discussionhttps://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-new-nuc... Especially the section that starts: > As a starting point: it is undoubtedly true that industrial-scale nuclear power, as built in advanced Western countries in the 1970s-1990s, has provided, and still provides, cheap power, even taking into account the uncertainty on the cost of both long term waste storage and dismantling of the plants. And, until rec…
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on “Converting coal power plants to nuclear gains steam”Submitted A solution to current high power prices as a story · 32 points
HN discussionPart 10 has the whole list: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-... (or you can just change the number in the URL.)
Comment linking /p/financing-offshore-wind-part-10
on “Financing offshore wind”Submitted Why fans of nuclear are a problem today as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe current blog author has a series of in-depth articles on the current European energy crisis which really dig into this, random highlights: France is not quite ready to accept that nuclear is not the future, so will be subsidizing it for a while rather than building as much renewables as would be ideal for cheaper, more stable energy: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/edfs-woes-are-a-bigger-l... > Today, we fac…
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on “Financing offshore wind”Submitted The duck in the room – the end of baseload as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFor later entries, you probably want to make your own URLs, because the links in the pages are messed up. Or, just start here: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...
Comment linking /p/financing-offshore-wind-part-10
on “Financing offshore wind”Submitted The lesson about the end of nuclear in Germany as a story · 16 points
HN discussionInteresting tidbit. According to Part 6 the lifespan of off-shore wind farms is now considered to be between 30-40 years: "projects in 2011 would typically have assumed a 20 year operational life, but the industry has moved towards 35 years as a standard and some players now even expect that 40 years is achievable" https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/i/51708558/operations-phas...
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on “Financing offshore wind”Submitted The (currently terrible) mood in renewables as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe blog seems more readable than that pdf so I've changed the URL above from https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind to the first blog post. Part 2: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-... Part 3: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-... Part 4: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-... Part 5: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com…
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on “Financing offshore wind”Submitted Renewables are just not serious – Our leaders just don't believe in them as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> But an expansion of nuclear could have happened Very unlikely. Nuclear (in the West) hasn't been expanded in the last 30 years, partially due to overblown safety concerns but also due to cost issues. There has been no hugely successful nuclear build, all that tried took almost as long as the renewable industry has existed in any real sense and cost absurd amounts of money. Looking at other large german projects du…
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on “Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023”Submitted What if the real long term prospect is incredibly cheap energy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore info: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/how-messed-up-was-german... > Reading the press or comments these days in French or English, the tone about Germany’s energy policies is a mix of the gleeful (of the “schadenfreude” kind) and the contemptuous. Germany was naive (to trust Putin), mercantilist / corrupt (its elite selling their soul or themselves for the “cheap gas” that its industry craves), or in thrall…
Comment linking /p/how-messed-up-was-germanys-energy
on “Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition”Submitted How can we discuss the energy crisis when journalists are so ignorant? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrance has no credible plan to replace and/or refurbish the reactors built decades ago by a socialist government cross-subsidizing its nuclear weapons program. Even their "target" for 2035 is 20% less nuclear than today. They just had to renationalize their nuclear builder due to it failing to build several reactors on time and on budget. They signed contracts that put the costs on them if they failed so the French…
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on “Nuclear Is Back”Submitted EDF's woes are a bigger long term problem for EU energy than the war in Ukraine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA very nice writing about that concept where more wind power drives price down: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-wind-the-pri...
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on “Price paid for offshore power to rise by 50%”Submitted Some background stories on Ukrainian gas pipelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Because a NPP wouldn't be run just for backup but continuously. Let's assume the 1 GW fossil plant runs a mere 3 weeks per year. That's a capacity factor of 0.058 and it'd generate 504 GWh per year. But then the nuclear power needs dispatchable power to cover the gaps! Just like renewables do, while also getting undercut by renewables. Which means it is getting priced out of the market, because as you just said, t…
Comment linking /p/the-duck-in-the-room-the-end-of-baseload
on “a thread”Submitted Financing offshore wind – part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Maybe not)Fiction: Sinking EDF cuts off power to freezing London to save Paris as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The EU energy policy has long been a mess – here's why as a story · 1 points
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