How climate-friendly and abundant is electricity production in Europe? Carbon intensity vs. Quantity produced, hourly

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  2. Just one question: What uranium abundance percentage is used to calculate the CO2 intensity for nuclear power plants here?

  5. Where is that graph from? I would like to understand how they come up with the CO2 equivalents for e.g. nuclear fuel especially when you consider the uranium enrichment process and the CO2 emissions from keeping the waste “safely” stored for 1 million years. Most structures would not last 1000 years, so the CO2 from the repeated construction and inspection would need to be factored in too.

  8. Electricity generation vs CO2e/kwh is very informative, but I’d be more interested in the type of power plant that the location o each power plant. We all know Germany and Poland are dirty with a lot of coal, and France is clean with nuclear but it would be better to just see for each dot what the power plant is.

    Anyways, it’s clear that nuclear is a fantastic source of electricity that has been sadly neglected in the decades of the past by all but France. It’s not just due to climate change either: The air pollution of coal, oil etc killed a lot of people.

  11. Germany on it’s best day can’t beat France on it’s worst.

    Belgium will soon migrate upwards as the nuclear plants are replaced by fossil fuels ones. (As our ‘greens’ demand it.)

  13. Updated/interactive live data for most countries in Europe and many worldwide. Click on each country for a summary (click in the white space of the summary to toggle it off again). A 24hr summary is displayed too.

    The flashing chevrons are cross-border connections that tell you which direction the electricity is flowing, the capacity and the amount being used.

    [https://app.electricitymap.org/map](https://app.electricitymap.org/map)

  15. Look at this may nuclear actualy be the right place holder until we have a way to efectivly store wind and solar energy?

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