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every year anyone Jessica Lovering 6Alistair Frew (Alistair Fury) 6Dr. Michael Webber 3Anne-Sophie Corbeau 3Jesse Jenkins 2Shayle Kann 1Nick Woolley 1Nick Fulgham 1Lara Pierpoint 1Jenny Chase 1
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Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 22:32 Nick Fulgham If you look at a power profile of an output in France, for example, output in the middle of the day is lower to make room for the increase in solar generation during that time.
The geopolitics of rare earth elements
- ▶ 27:10 Ahmad Ghahreman Plant in France again to separate rare earth elements, and Linus, an Australian company, is building capacity in Texas, I believe.
Understanding SAF buyers
- ▶ 20:15 Amelia DeLuca I will say that France, France started their mandates a couple of years ago, so we've got a running start at understanding how those are going to work.
What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
- ▶ 9:34 Corey Cantor But if you look at Europe, you're seeing more in that 25% to 30% for UK, Germany, France, the major markets in Europe.
EV charging on both sides of the pond
- ▶ 9:43 Nick Woolley I might need to do these long road trips, whether it be across the US or up and down the UK or to, uh, uh, from the UK to say, uh, France to take the kids, uh, kids on their family holiday.
The cost of nuclear
- ▶ 10:24 Jessica Lovering I think, unlike what happened in the U.S., there were still places, like, that had big nuclear fleets building in the nineties and early 2000, like France and Japan kept building nuclear, but places like the U.S., which still has the…
- ▶ 14:19 Jessica Lovering France, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Jessica Lovering Actually, just when a few more come online, they will surpass France as having the largest fleet of nuclear, so the second largest in the world after the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:30 Jessica Lovering Um, and we've seen with Vogel and these projects in Europe, like in Finland and France, just going way over budget.
The food-energy nexus
- ▶ 19:01 Dr. Michael Webber And there are these famous examples of wine from France delivered by ship to New York is less energy intensive than the closer wine in California moved there by truck.
The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport
- ▶ 35:47 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Well, they need to go to, you know, again, the market of interest, which is Germany, which means that they have to go through France, they have to go, you know, through the whole country, etc.
The carbon market’s quality problem
- ▶ 39:06 Alistair Frew (Alistair Fury) But you can imagine, like, say you have a direct air capture project, and it's in France, right? 6 times in the scene
Natural gas whiplash
- ▶ 17:07 Anne-Sophie Corbeau I mean, people were, you know, in the south of France, eating ice cream during Christmas, outside, because, and they were, you know, even going swimming in the sea.
- ▶ 38:13 Anne-Sophie Corbeau So the reduction in nuclear generation is because Germany has decommissioned three nuclear power plants at the end of 2021, and because France has a lot of issues with its nuclear power plants.
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
- ▶ 26:01 Jenny Chase So what some European governments, notably, um, France, Spain, and Portugal, have done, and they all had basically state auctions, so
Averting water wars as we decarbonize
- ▶ 15:23 Dr. Michael Webber We improve the productivity, the throughput, the efficiency, and the ability to move energy from where you produce it, maybe in West Texas, to where you need it, say, France and Germany, if they're trying to get off Russian gas, for…
- ▶ 24:42 Dr. Michael Webber You cannot get the water you need to cool your nuclear power plants in France so they are dialing back or turning off.
Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
- ▶ 7:34 Jesse Jenkins Underlying thesis for the European Union at the beginning after World War II, which began as the European Coal and Steel Union, right, to sort of manage, ah, integrated production of coal and steel so that every country, France and Germany…
- ▶ 38:02 Jesse Jenkins Poland and other countries are now saying they want to try, and France, um, are saying they want to drive more new nuclear deployment faster than originally planned.
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
- ▶ 10:56 Jake DeWitt Poland with a recent announcement, um, to Romania, to even France, who just recently announced, you know, one of the world leaders in nuclear power that they're going to be building at least 14 new plants, um, which is pretty exciting to…
- ▶ 39:40 Lara Pierpoint Nuclear should scale phenomenally well, and I think we have to also, you know, all be honest with ourselves about the history of nuclear here, and the truth is that when you look at the United States and you look at France, two of the…
Is nuclear fusion getting close?
- ▶ 13:42 Dr. Scott Hsu It's a very large tokamak being built in the south of France, uh, and it was the result of an agreement way back in the eighties, um,
A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- ▶ 26:23 Shayle Kann Airbus is a French company.