The personal abuse does you no favours, Fester.

As for the actual substance of your reply, no one disputes that nuclear fuels contain stored energy in a physical sense. The point is that thorium does not function as grid-scale energy storage, which is the constraint I meantioned. Dressing that up in astrophysics doesn't change the system-level problem.

Regarding batteries, you've just agreed with me: off-grid adoption increases as storage costs fall. That's already happening.

//Did I claim it was [an argument]?//

No, but people rarely ever begin or end an argument with a declaration like "This is an argument."

That said, it was tribal signalling and identity affirmation; stating that it wasn't an argument was my way of highlighting this gently.

Too gently, as it turns out.

Fester,

"John

Really, you are a complete moron."

"The personal abuse does you no favours, Fester."

Fester, I thought you were better than that. You may not agree with JD, but he's never thrown abuse your way ever.

Some years back I was suspended from this forum for using the word "ignoramus" towards another, also abusive poster. Hummmm.