France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors

Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by nix23 on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:58AM (#30302184)

No snow = no glaciers grow = not water in our alps, it's not that hard to understand:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170217/swiss-study-snow-to-largely...

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2018/02/no-...

>In an initial phase, climate change will actually cause the runoff to increase, as water stored as ice is released. However, if the glacier becomes too small, it will reach a tipping point, which we call “peak water”.

>Our study highlights the “hot spots” where retreating glaciers will cause water shortages in future.

But hey maybe you know some other mysterious ways water is stored in in mountains.

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Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by stolsvik on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:24PM (#30308231)

Lakes?

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Re:France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors by nix23 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:34AM (#30311041)

Sorry to tell you but there are not many lakes in the Maintains, and they are often fed through snow and water-sources from glaciers/snow-fields, from higher above. And there is not a single lake in the mountains with nearly the size/mass of a single glacier.

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