[Libloather]

That's a shame.

[2banana]

FYI - France makes 90% of their electricity by nuclear power...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Paris. “City of Lights”. LOL!

[BobL]

I realize that this is WAY BEYOND the comprehension level of New York Times reporters and editors, most of whom absolutely HATED MATH (just like public school teachers, by the way), but France is something like 80% Nuclear, the highest in the world (and without any major safety incidents, I might add).

Nuke power is base load. It simply CANNOT be turned down when load goes down, it takes days, if not weeks to lower the output of a nuke plant. So what happens? All that power that they STILL produce from their reactants ends up as heat and gets rejected locally. No different than light, as far as saving the world is concerned...it’s power. So, this is TOTALLY SYMBOLIC in that country - but hopefully, it won’t result in increased rapes due to cover of darkness, but I’m not optimistic.

[Cyber Liberty]

It sure is a good thing they don’t have any crime there at night.

[Uncle Miltie]

The lights are literally going out in Europe.

Again.

Figuratively, Islam has been shutting off their intellectual, cultural and religious lights for years.

[BenLurkin]

Insanity

[Pontiac]

On the bright side this will be a boon to the burglary business.

[Chode]

as usual the slimes gets it wrong, it's to cut down on light pollution not save energy...

[RetiredTexasVet]

Shouldn’t be that tough, seems like most of France is pretty dim anyway.

[potlatch]

She says it's a matter of public health because artificial lighting can damage sleep patterns. Do the people sleep in the nonresidential buildings? Strange excuses I'm thinking and the police will be busier too.

[Caipirabob]

Under socialism, the city of light goes dark.

[Bratch]

Turn out the lights, the party's over