Joe,

Here's a surprise.

France begins winding down its reliance on nuclear
power:

http://www.bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2020-03-france-begins-winding-down-its-reliance-on-nuclear-power

Loudmouth2, I said long ago I would fight to stop lies and mis-leading information.
I cannot speak openly on how such people should be treated or vilified and openly condemned, but for the fact that this medium applauds and encourages such people, in fact covets them, so we are forced to speak in a way which is not in keeping with the veracity or material truth about what is being discussed.
Such a situation has once more surfaced through a well known source of such themes or comments.
The last comments are a damning indictment on this author.
In her haste to win/make her point she has misled us once more.
I only needed to read the first paragraph, for it to expose her.
We are led to believe that France is closing down it's nuclear power stations, it implies a trend which in turn means they will keep closing them down.
WRONG!
They are closing the OLDEST one down, because it is 43 years old.
Is no one else seeing through these baseless attempts at point scoring.
I have said it before, for every point such people try to make, there are ten in contradiction, but you will never get that from them.
Why let the truth get in the way of a good lie or collection of random facts.

Foxy, I followed that link to France closing nuclear stations.
They cannot rely on wind & solar as France is too small.
Another point that made me laugh was about Germany being irritated by
Frances nuclear power.
Germany has always relied on France to backup their wind & solar !

ALTRAV, I must pull you up on Y2K bug.
It was VERY real. Any program that used two digit year fields had to
be fixed, but that was the easy bit. Almost all historical files had
to be reprocessed. Odd occasional usages of the year numbers that
everyone had forgotten about would ambush them when they thought it was
all fixed.
A friend of mine, a programmer for a commercial software company
bought a new house and car out of the overtime.
One trick they did was to convert all dates before Y2K to negative
numbers so that 99 became year -1. It did require more print work
when printing invoices etc for last year. A bit of a temporary kludge.

Bazz, I cede to a better man.
I did not know that; my only excuse is that I did not come across any problems in and around the sources I had contact with, so it would seem my exposure was at a much lower or domestic level, as even our computers and electronic equipment gave no sign of problems.
I must admit being curious as to a more precise description or outline as to the type/level of electronic equipment that needed attending to, if only to update my memory of the incident at the time, so I can keep true to my mantra, which is to only speak truthfully.
I stand perplexed that I had no knowledge or word about what you speak, unless it was decided not to make it public, for security reasons.
That would seems reasonable, and I can understand and accept that.

Good Morning Bazz,

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record
but I'll give it another try.

I'm sure that Australia will find and choose the
future that it wants and the challenge will be to
work out the best way to get there - whether its
to continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity
generation, or go nuclear, or invest in renewables,
or a diverse mix of new technologies - I'm sure that
we're capable of unlocking value from our country's
unmatched energy resources in a way that is responsible
and environmentally sustainable - as well as building a
cost compatible, lower emissions domestic energy sector.

I remember the times when computers came in great big
machines with great big storage units. Today we have
a different scenario altogether. Things advance, change
and so it will undoubtedly be with our energy generation.

As has long been known, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

This is now repeated in the "renewable energy" debate. It doesn't matter how often you show those with no technical understanding the facts, if they want to believe greenie garbage on the subject, they will. Hell Foxy is still referencing the ABC as if anything coming from that source is anything but left/green propaganda.

Just recently we see that the home of renewable energy stupidity, South Australia, wants to spend an incredible $1.5billion dollars more of our money on another interconnector with NSW. This is so SA gets a lifeline leap frogging through NSW to the reliable coal power in Queensland, & hides the fact that their renewable energy fixation is a total disaster, & waste of the public's money.

How much more of our now coronavirus limited resources do we have to let these ratbags waste, before we finally call enough?