Quentin Boulanger

Energy and environment consultant. Assistance to the international development of energy and environmental actors. / Director

[Mohamed Sifaoui @Sifaoui]

On devrait passer ça dans un cours de sciences politiques pour définir le Front national et son électorat d’hier et d’aujourd’hui.
Très juste Bernard Tapie

Écoutez qui sont-ils. Et si vous votez facho écoutez qui êtes vous. Vous allez probablement vous reconnaître en étant quelque peu honnête avec vous m��me !

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"We didn't start the war in Ukraine," Russian UN Representative Vasily Nebenzya.

Thankful to @stephensackur for showing Nebenzya for who he is. That is how interviews are done.

📹: BBC

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th.

Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far-sighted decisions against powerful entrenched interests.

Decisions such as abandoning the poorly-performing French gas reactors for outstanding Westinghouse technology.

And insisting on ruthless standardization that allowed true learning-by-doing, with his teams completing several reactors a year for more than a decade.

His fleet provides 70% of French electricity, and but for the sabotage by his weak, stupid successors inside and outside French government, it should be making half again as much electricity as the 56 reactors do today.

Boiteux's reactor fleet (plus a few more units after his retirement) cost about $150 billion. Compare this to Germany spending about $500 billion on their mess of an "energy transition" which requires them to keep almost all of their coal and gas plants in service.

As a young man Marcel Boiteux refused to accept France's defeat and at age 21 in 1942 as an elite university student he escaped Nazi-occupied France while escorting downed Allied pilots over the Pyrenees mountains to safety in Spain.

Brass. Balls.

This episode revealed the pattern for the rest of his life.

After the war, he studied economics and wrote *the* foundational paper in electricity economics, on how to price electricity service in a way that covered system costs while being fair and sustainable.

He completely understood liberal economics, and knew it did not apply to electricity grids and service. He built cheap power for all, then after his retirement watched as a bunch of pathetic hack economists broke the grid with idiotic "markets" that are failing all over the world.

He rapidly rose in public service after university graduation, and after appointment to the head of Electricité de France, successfully built the most astonishing energy system in the history of the world, proving for all time that a country could truly rely on its own fleet of standardized nuclear reactors producing low-cost emissions-free energy.

Anti-nuclear terrorists exploded a bomb outside the door of his family home in 1977 but he kept building.

It must have been torture for this truly great man to watch twenty years of silly, unserious leaders damage and begin to destroy his beloved EDF and its fleet of reactors, leading France straight into its worst energy crisis since the oil crisis of 1973 that triggered Boiteux's nuclear fleet construction in the first place.

But he didn't come up with the idea of a nuclear fleet powering a total electrification of the economy because an oil crisis hit. He was too prophetic to be a mere reactionary. Rather, he declared the slogan "All nuclear, all electric" months before the OPEC embargo hit in 1973.

Marcel Boiteux died this week at the age of 101.

[Emmanuelle Wargon @EmmWargon]

Hommage à Marcel Boiteux qui nous a quitté ce jour, membre des Forces Françaises Libres, président emblématique d’EDF et bâtisseur de notre système énergétique.

Mes pensées vont vers sa famille et ses proches.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Incredibly brave Russian woman speaks out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.👏
English subtitles

[Pierre Heilbronn @HeilbronnPierre]

#URC2023 @MinColonna just announced in #London that 🇨🇵 is preparing a multi-year civilian assistance package to 🇺🇦 that will include humanitarian, stabilisation, economic and financial support based on mobilisation of grants and guarantees @Denys_Shmyhal @DmytroKuleba @G7

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Hola Prystan, Kherson Region

This is one of the towns flooded by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Located on the left bank of the Russian-occupied Kherson Region.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

We appreciate there's still a bit of angst about sending tanks to Ukraine. We're here to help.
#freetheleopards

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Western countries are so worried about sending tanks to Ukraine, they’re arguing about what is and isn’t a “tank.” We offer our humble suggestion.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

A year ago, Mariupol celebrated New Year’s Eve like we all.

In February they got bombarded.

In March-April, they starved, their city got destroyed.

In June, many of them were bulldozed down with their homes.

#StopRussiaNOW #StandWithUkraine

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Light and hope will prevail even without electricity.

Merry Christmas 🎄 & #StandWithUkraine

Art by @grekhov

[Quentin Boulanger @QBoulanger]

@PonterluX Et l'intensité carbone on en parle? 4 fois moins en France qu'en Allemagne ici... Des progrès a faire sur les ENR ont est OK mais ça ne veut pas dire que le mix électrique français est très carboné.

[Quentin Boulanger @QBoulanger]

@francis_scarr ₩

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Whoever did this cartoon - thank you!

#StopRussiaNOW

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Life is an amazing screenwriter. Tearing down 🇷🇺 disgusting rug, #UkrainianArmy uncovers the poem of 🇺🇦 genius Taras Shevchenko: “You’ll fight - and you’ll win, as God helps you…”.

#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

This song won @Eurovision yesterday. A new, less “glossy” video.

#StandWithUkraine #armUkraineNow #StopPutin

[Nataliya Gumenyuk @ngumenyuk]

Today RU animation company SoyuzMultfilm blocked 1973 Soviet cartoon where pioneers undergo underwater trip and find a sunken warship with letter Z. “It’s clear, this is a fascist destroyer. I read about it,”- a kid say. After “Moscow” cruiser it’s hard to invent such an irony

[Quentin Boulanger @QBoulanger]

Can only agree with @olex_scherba. Had the honor to work with mayor Boichenko on ecoological and sustainable projects in Mariupol and to listen to him speak with such resolve and enthusiasm about his city. Painful to see and hear him so grave. #NoFlyZone #Marioupol

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Mayor of #Mariupol: Since 15 days goes on this war against humanity. Russo-fascist troops bombard our town every 30 minutes. Partly with banned weapons.

I know Vadim. A cheerful guy. Never thought I would see him like this.

#StandWithUkraine #PutinIsaWarCriminal
#россиядумай

[Paz Olivier @paz_olivier]

Marioupol… Avant et maintenant.
#savingMariupol

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ukrainian Ambassador holds up a tweet from Lavrov and advises Russian diplomats that they can obtain assistance for mental help from the NHS by dialing 111