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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by yread on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:25AM (#35651091)
And Uranium-235 about 1GWh/kg
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by ly3xqhl8g9 on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:36AM (#35651169)
Uranium-235 is around 24 GWh/kg [1] (24,000,000,000 Wh).

[1] https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/

Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by travisporter on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:36AM (#35651898)
Whoa so… 100kwh is 40mg! 3grains of sand to run a Tesla

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100kwh%2F%282.5+gwh%2Fk...

Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by m3kw9 on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:52AM (#35653760)
Except a lot more is released at once so it will accelerate like a jet engine on every stop sign
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by travisporter on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:50PM (#35683470)
Haha yes I did not think about that. There’s no throttling there
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by the_duke on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#35655152)
You need to account for all the weight required to turn the radiation into electricity.

That'll make the numbers ... a bit different.

Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by mrtesthah on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:01PM (#35657625)
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by philipkglass on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:37PM (#35658907)
The GPHS RTG contains 7.8 kilograms of plutonium 238 but masses 57 kg in total. It also generates only 300 watts from that 57 kg package:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG

You'd need about 3 metric tons of them to power one Model 3 cruising at highway speed (assuming ~16 kilowatts continuous power draw).

Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by stephen_g on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#35659245)
Not to mention that you have to mine and refine a couple of tonnes of ore for every kilogram of refined uranium.