LFTRs still have considerable problems to be worked out, which is why the technology has never been implemented on any large scale. They are a possibility but one that would require a huge amount of development before they could be a major commercial solution. I wouldn't count on this type of reactor having any impact in the foreseeable future, due to the U-233 required for startup, the highly radioactive waste that is still produced, proliferation risks, and a host of other concerns that would be very expensive to address. LFTRs are certainly interesting but still far from ready for prime time.

Wow, so there are intelligent, compassionate humans alive today. Good comment, hey!. I sure don't mourn criminals who die because of their follies, but I take no joy in their deaths.

The loot starts to glow, say "holy shit!!!" and run like a motherfather.

Yes, you can't say with true certainty that everyone will die until everyone is actually dead. You get closer and closer every day as more people die, but with the world birth rate exceeding the death rate, there are an awful lot of people who have not dies yet. Some have proposed that the first human to live to 1000 has already been born. Plus it isn't widely considered likely that the universe has a definitive end point, so eternal life, however unlikely, might be possible. And as a Christian, I know I will someday be granted eternal life in another place - heaven. Thanks Obama, I mean, thanks Jesus.

"The life of a repoman is always intense."

I don't get this birthrate talk. Is having a lower birthrate indicative of a superior race, society, culture or country? If it were, it would mean the societies that became extinct the quickest were the greatest, no? And I have noticed that family sizes in the United States were once much higher. Does moving away from something that helped makes us great now make us greater? Is China's one child policy actually a good idea? People here in the US (and I mean white people) love to talk about the high perceived birthrate among Mexicans and welfare-dependent (a euphemism, usually meaning black) Americans, and consider it a problem. But when my white great grandparents were having 13-child families on their farms from 1900 to 1925, that was good for America? Does that make "the greatest generation" "the worst generation?"

Get over the racism and stereotypes, folks. It all makes no sense and makes the promoters look utterly stupid.

Way to defend racism anonymously. How typical.

You missed the capitalization and didn't use proper punctuation in your comment, so you really shouldn't be telling other people when they should be talking about stupidity. But at least you were lame enough to flame anonymously, loser.

And you are officially racist. It is not okay to say things like this about Mexicans or Chinese people, despite the odd acceptance of such racism in America today.

News stories mentioning Mexicans do not automatically warrant jokes about refried beans, burritos, picking lettuce, border-jumping or fence climbing, being lazy, having 20 kids, or being illegal immigrants. Nor do stories about Chinese people mean it is okay to automatically say something irrelevant about rice, or talk with an offensive "Chinese" accent. If you see something written about an African-American do you think it is okay bring out the same tired old watermelon, fried chicken, barbecue, sambo, welfare comments? That is wrong, and the crap white people say about Mexicans and Chinese is just as bad, even if you can usually get away with it. (And no, it is not okay to call all people of Asian descent Chinese. Everyone knows you are not really joking, even when you say you are.)

Yeah, I'm white, American, and male, and I'm tired of people who look and talk like me making me look bad in the eyes of everyone else. They know we're not all bad, but the ignorance that goes hand in hand with white racist elitism still makes me sick. If you want to deride someone, don't be lazy -- at least have a reason and make it personal, not based on flawed stereotypes. Otherwise shut the fuck up.

Hmm, no, I think. While a fair number of the numerous other digital "alt" coins (bitcoin competitors and copycats) are known or suspected to have been "pre-mined," no one credible has ever accused Satoshi of cheating. Sure he was likely the first to mine BTC, but he was not a scammer developing the network merely to cash in himself. And I doubt many earl adopters are still holding their first coins.

Personally, I cashed out several times, like when it hit $6, then again at $20, then again at $110, a few at $210, then more at $140ish a couple months ago, at which time I gave up on mining and mostly stopped trading. We were all optimistic but few of us were patient enough to really amass huge wallets for the long term, nor did most of us really see the huge recent price spike coming, unfortunately. If there is any evidence that Satoshi somehow took advantage of BTC in a secretive, underhanded way, please enlighten us.

Just for shits and giggles, what if DPR and Satoshi were indeed in cahoots at the beginning, with DPR having the balls and skills to build a huge black market and Satoshi providing him with the means to make it work? Sounds unlikely to me, but it is conceivable that Satoshi created bitcoin not only knowing that it would be abused for illegal transactions, but also intending it to be used as such. Hmm...

I'll give you a dollar to cover the efficiency you lose charging your phone over the course of a year, and you can keep the change.

As this is a new-ish consumer technology I fully expect the 70% figure you mention to change significantly in the near future.

Are you saying wireless chargers don't work, in which case you are wrong, or are just being an idiot without even trying to make a point? These are the only two options.

It isn't the reason I stopped using a particular LG phone (the reason was ultimately LG's refusal to update us to ICS or provide us with the necessary code to do it ourselves), but it sure was a major inconvenience until I retired it. And it wasn't so much worn out as made finicky by a small crack in the surrounding housing that wouldn't stay glued, a weak point of which I know I was not the only victim.

If my LG G2x was capable of wireless charging then the housing around the port might not be cracked today, and it might charge without me having to wedge it under something so the cord stays in just the right position. Of course I retired that phone in favor of an Optimus G anyway, but it was a pain for a while. I never thought wireless charging was more than a gimmick but now I'm having similar trouble with a tablet. It may not be a hug convenience or a big time saver, but it is a way to eliminate one potential source of wear and tear, so there is a distinction, however slight in the minds of some.

I won't buy my next mobile device based on wireless charging capabilities or lack thereof, but I will certainly use it if the device I choose offers it (probably a Nexus 5 in a few months, coincidentally).

Had a bad week, so all that is on my workbench right now is a big freaking hammer and some debris.