plants in France, or for that matter anywhere else.

Most nuclear plants worldwide run at close to or better than 90% of rated power, whereas there are zero solar plants that ever reach their rated power, and none that have reliability (capacity utilization of even 30%).

The same losers carry on endlessly about how wonderful wind and solar are, even though wind plants woud need to increase their pathetic reliability by a factor of more than 3 to run as reliably as nuclear plants, and wind by a factor of 9.

Today, January, 13th, 2010, the $700,000 "52 kw" solar toxic nightmare at MOCA in North Adams Massachusetts produced just 39 kWh of energy. Since the sun is now down and the piecd of consumer garbage isn't going to anything now, we may conclude that, since today, like every other day, contains 86,400 seconds, and 39 kWh is still 1.4 X 10⁸J, just like it has always been and always been, the output of the $700,000 system is just 1600 watts as average continuous power, not counting the waste that would have been involved in the imaginary batteries, if they existed, which they don't.

A lawnmower produces more power than that (since 1 horsepower still, as it always has, equals roughly 746 watts).

The capacity utilization of the "52 kW" solar plant today? 3%. Useless.

How do I know these details? Because the MOCA system posts its data "live," as I never tire of pointing out: http://www.sunviewer.net/portals/MoCA /

Have all the "renewables will save us" gas greenwashers in Massachusetts been living without electricity today just because the fucking solar toy isn't working reliably?

Of course not. They're right here on the internet hawking their selective attention like it fucking matters and posturing with denial.

Solar and wind fail miserably on the same criteria, reliability, that the "renewables will save us" gas greenwasher apply only to nuclear.

So called "renewable energy" will never be as clean, as safe, as reliable or as inexpensive as nuclear power.