[Turing_Machine]

Batteries don't store "power". They store energy. Uranium fission, on the other hand, produces energy. Comparing energy storage with energy production is not valid.

Also, your numbers are way, way off. 1 kg of U-235 can produce about 24,000,000 kWh of energy. There's no way you're going to store that in 1 kg of lithium batteries.

[Schroedingersat]

Hilarious attempt at misdirection. The conceit is that the 'need' for batteries to run renewables is environmentally destructive and makes renewables a bad option. Putting that in context reveals it's still a better option than nuclear, even though there are other options that are even better on the renewable side where they're appropriate.

You don't mine U235. You mine 99.3% U238 and then leave a third of your U235 in enrichment tailings (or burn it straight in a CANDU).

And storage of a given time duration is indexed by power. 1kW of diurnal storage is enough storage to provide 1kW over daily variation.

Extracting 1kg of Uranium nets you 1kW for a few years.

Extracting 1kg of Lithium nets you enough storage to run 1kW of solar + wind for several times as long.

The solar panel is made of about the same amount of sand as goes into the nuclear power plant. It is less limited by Silver than the control rods are limited by indium, silver and cadmium.

[Turing_Machine]

> Hilarious attempt at misdirection.

You don't know the difference between energy and power, nor between energy production and energy storage.

That's not "misdirection" of any kind.

[Schroedingersat]

I was quite clear in the distinction both times. Pretending you can't read doesn't help your point.

[Turing_Machine]

No, you were not "clear". You said that batteries store "power". They do not. Period.

Worse still, you were attempting to confuse "power" (actually energy) storage with "power" (actually energy) production. That's not even apples and oranges -- more like apples and poetry.

It's like saying that because a refrigerator can hold 100 kilograms of food, buying a refrigerator is same as actually growing 100 kilograms of food. The two are not comparable in any way.

P.S. the ad hominem means that you lose. Sorry.

We're done.

[Schroedingersat]

Doubling down on lying about words that are right in front of you doesn't make the lie any truer.

Nor does having a tantrum over having the lie called out. Instead it just makes you look like a cry-bully.

The constant stream of lies and whining when those lies are called out from nuclear "advocates" would reflect incredibly poorly on the industry if it weren't obvious it was just a tactic to keep fossil fuels relevant for a little longer.