France

These are nuclear reactors that comprise the Cruas Nuclear Power Plant in the Savoie region of France – but what you can’t see is that they are sitting on the Rhone river, near Montélimar. According to WikiPedia they produce 3’600 MW of electricity and account for 5% of France’s electricity demand.

Let’s assume two large wind generators could crank out around 36 MW – this means we’d need 2×100 = 200 wind generators to equal the output of these 4 reactors!

By the way, so as not to be confused, the big “hyperbolic cooling towers” you see are just for cooling the water. The reactors themselves are the tiny cylindrical objects you see on the far left, with the small domed roofs.

 

This is what Europeans would call a lake – but Americans would call a pond. I took this snap just next to the Col du Granier in the Savoie region of France.

This is it – Mount Granier – or as the French like to call their mounts, Col du Granier. It is located in the Savoie region of France, just a stone’s throw from the border with Geneva:

A slightly different snap of this one

I never stopped to look at the placque about who this is – but I find it amazing how people hundreds of years ago celebrated other people who were famous.

 

I took this snap in Besancon

I took this snap in Besancon. If you have been to France then you know how it is: they like to spray water all over their streets early each morning!

 

I shot this snap of a door in the French village of Besoncon. I don’t know what kind of blue this actually is, but to me it is quite clearly TARDIS blue!  Perhaps the Doctor has fixed his chameleon circuit?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: take a picture, ensure a cow is in the picture, and it will be a good picture.

I think the same holds true for this, une Vache française en plastique.

Just like just about everything else in Europe, the Chateaux de Joux dates back to the 1200’s.