An All to Familiar Scene

On our way to Livarot we drove through the very heart of Norman farmland. This scene pretty much depicts what we saw most of time between destinations: wide open sopping wet fields of green winter crops punctuated by forests of wind turbines and power lines. The French must use an incredible amount of electricity or Normandy must supply the power for all the rest of France because we saw thousands of wind turbines all along every road we took. Additionally we saw no less than 4 nuclear power plants during our vacation. In checking Wikipedia I now know that France gets most of its electricity from nuclear energy and their consumers' cost is among the lowest in the World. France even exports power. No Co2 emissions, no pollution, an almost endless suppy of fuel and it's cheap. Brilliant. I'm really starting to like these French. They actually have to shut down the plants on weekends because they create TOO MUCH electricity.