Reserve plants are counted by how much they’re used which hasn’t been that high so far, not the total amount they could burn if used 100%. They are going all in on solar with coal backup.

The problem is that they have too much debt and they can’t just ignore it anymore. They can complain but they have to cut spending somewhere or increase revenue. Now they can raise the retirement age for everyone. Or they can take the money from the billionaires. But that still doesn’t get you closer to lowering the deficit which is very high well over 100 percent of GDP. That means the protests are really just complaining that France doesn’t have enough money but you can’t keep the spending going as is without a lot of drastic cuts. All you can do is cuts now or kick the can down the road and hope something changes. Or just default on the debt and say fuck it.

Actual peer reviewed articles are usually 3 paragraphs of new content then 95 percent boring math and graphs to try and prove that. The popular articles written on them are more interesting and useful.

Reviews a paper -

“Oh my, I had no idea so many scientists are absolutely terrible at writing and basic math.”