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[kruddler]

Or maybe you could say Mme Curie unfortunately was at the cutting edge of new rather than mature technology. Nuclear power is now very mature whereas renewables and battery technologies will improve rapidly. Confining the comparison of nuclear and fossil fuel energy generation to only existing renewables & battery technology is misleading.

The thing with batteries is, besides the waste issue that comes along with them, is the more power you force into them, and the smaller you make them, the more dangerous they become.

We are walking around with bombs in our pockets already, better technology just means bigger bombs.

Have a look at a video of a phone battery exploding and remind yourself it's usually in a pocket that is inches away from your manhood.
Remember the Samsung phone batteries exploding when they got too hot?

I'm all for more research into batteries, but there is a limit to the size and power they can get too, and the waste that comes with it. Not to mention the fact we will probably run out of resources and/or destroy the planet trying to find it.
In the end we'd hope to achieve something close to what nuclear power already gives us....so let's just skip 70 years of research and get to the same point we are now.

There are a couple of docos about batteries and technology worth watching from a few years ago. They go through the intricacies of it all and the challenges facing them. It actually does more harm than good to the point trying to be made imo.