Manon Fossat 8:34 am, October 20, 2021, modified at 8:34 am, October 20, 2021

The prices of gas and electricity are soaring in France.

To cope with this outbreak, the government is moving towards several avenues.

On Europe Matin Wednesday, the president of the Solar Impulse foundation, Bertrand Piccard, who in a book defends a "realistic" approach to ecology, called for the use of solar power and wind.

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The government spoke on Tuesday of several "avenues" to support industries that consume a lot of energy in the face of soaring gas and electricity prices, and to try to stabilize electricity prices in the longer term.

Guest of Sonia Mabrouk in Europe Matin on Wednesday, the environmentalist Bertrand Piccard, judged that Emmanuel Macron's desire to develop nuclear power through the creation of mini plants called SMRs, was not a solution for the future for the country .

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"It has been a long time since specialists say that fossil fuels can only see their price increase because they are limited quantities and that renewable energies can only see their price decrease because they are unlimited sources. this situation today ", he recalled. 

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nuclear power does not appear as the ideal ecological solution to fight against this surge in prices. "The current power stations produce carbon-free energy, but not enough since a large part of our society is still on oil. Even if it is not very smart to close power stations, it is not either. build today because it is too late ", judged Bertrand Piccard.

"All the IPCC reports show that we have ten years to decarbonize half of our society. And these plants will arrive long afterwards because we know how difficult it is to develop new technologies. So let's use those that already exist as solar and wind, ”continued the environmentalist.

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