I am talking about Austria. Its mostly reusable ones made of fabric, or really sturdy plastic/wofen plastic. If you need a oneway one it’s paper. We anyway had to pay for the shoppingbags as long as I can remember.

Thanks for the answer. I was really surprised how little people complained when the shop ones stopped existing. Seems like induced demand. Back then I kept a few, because they are so handy. Well, never used one.

Sorry, fixed it.

Are they talking about something like this

Or something like this

The first one has been forbitten in my country for ~10years and nobody seems to miss them. The second one is used, rarely, for takeout and mostly replaced with paper bags.

I don’t agree with you but either way that doesn’t change the fact that nuclear is just slow, expensive and a bad idea in 2024.

There are just better/faster options…

Maybe you can get something out of here

I always use a factor of 1200 as approximation e.g. 1GW produses 1.2 TWh per year but thats very very rough.

If this is ever deemed feasible the world will already run on renewables. There might have been a time for NPPs but 2024 ain’t it.

Corruption

Utility PV in Australia has a capacity factor of ~25%. So those six GW of PV will produce approximately the same amount of energy as the biggest nuclear reactor in Europe Olkiluoto 3 which took 18 years to build instead of 2.5.

It’s a few hours behind and they have obviously problems with behind the meter production. Adfitionally, the values for CO2 emisdions are off (i.e. nuclear is calculated with 5g/kWh, this is 1/3 to 1/10 of the values you find in literature) But all in all, you can see the trends of production and im- export.

This is happening, to a degree, in most of Europe. Storage is the answer as described in the article. Unfortunately politics are not proactive, you need to break the system before something happens… and now the system is broken, yeah!!!

While this is true, Austria has, for the first time ever, built more than 1GW of PV in 2022 and more than 2GW of PV in 2023. As a result 98%+ of electricity production have been renewable in April and this also holds true for Mai so far. All in all, good news.

Put as much money into the research of SMRs as you would like to waste. Meanwhile we just build a cheaper, better and more reliable system based on renewables.

This will happen with or without the nukebro hypetrain.

Unfortunately capacity is the first step, but its a step. I’ll crack open a beer when it’s consumption or production…

I said it before and I’ll say it again, nuclear proliferation and corruption are the only real reasons to build NPPs. If you build for the climate you build renewable!

I am pretty sure the EU will soon reach the final phase of the electricity transition. Soon it will be more about balancing the grid with storage and upgrading the electricity network and no longer about build out rates of solar and Wind.

What a giant waste of resources.