The fuel price does not seem to be such a problem with fission plants. It is something like 18% of the electricity cost. If we consider problem of waste then this will emit a lot of neutrons so it is probably comparable to IFRs in the terms of waste. For IFRs the cost of fuel should be neglible. So for this as a power source it needs to get at least as good as IFRs. I would like to know whether it has a chance. If it does not have a chance (which is what I suspect) it should not be tried to be sold to public as a future power source. Note, I like the project otherwise. I'm just afraid we are misled about it to be usable power source in the future.

Why you think this is going to be cheaper than fission? I'm unimpressed by the project from the point of view of power genration. Otherwise it looks cool though :)

LGA 1156: Also, there is 16 PCIe links on the processor die directly and there is only 2 GB/s connection from CPU to P55 PCH. No QPI. More information is here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570&p=2

How many OS'es are written in Python? Neither Java, ruby, perl nor python attempt be appropriate languages for writing OS'es. This doesn't make them good or bad. Other factors might.

It might be possible to write OS in those loanguages. MS is trying to do it in C#. The project name is Singularity. But I agree that OS in not the target domain :)