You may be saying this but for those unfamiliar with the set up, see the third picture in this link and the description (http://science.howstuffworks.com/apache-helicopter5.htm). It works with a monocular lens, the left eye never gets covered nor has the projected image.

The Target Acquisition and Designation Sights, Pilot Night Vision System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Acquisition_and_Designation_System,_Pilot_Night_Vision_System) for the AH-64 uses a single eye piece. So it seems like this type of thing can and has been done (and this one is pretty cool, it tracks the head movements of the pilot and points the 50 caliber cannon where he/she looks). The single eye piece doesn't seem to cause problems for the pilots that use these systems. Not saying I am interested in Google Glass, but they should have been able to figure out the problem discussed in the TFA.

Plus once you file the police report and are a suspect of identity theft you can freeze your credit for free (usually it costs up to $10 per agency per person depending on the state you live in). Freezing your credit is easy to do and essentially eliminates the possibility of someone starting credit in your name (unless they break into your house and take the codes you printed from the three credit bureaus after freezing your credit). There is a guide to freezing your credit on the website of a financial podcast I listen too (http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-finance-credit/credit-freeze-and-thaw-guide/nFbL/). You can also check on your credit for free once each year at the following website https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp (I recommend checking one of the three every 4 months).

And good films. However, it is only possible to make money on those when people in other industries are employed and have disposable income. These jobs are secondary effects of others having money to spend on them. It is maslow's hierarchy of needs, if everyone else is broke they can't and won't buy the media. Some will turn to piracy and some will just do without. You can't create jobs or support an economy with a circle of media industry workers buying each others stuff. By necessity there needs to be other people involved. If the law makers wanted to help, they would work on improving the economy. With more disposable income in the hands of the masses, media sales would increase. If the media industry wanted to help they could improve the quality of their product and/or lower prices (I feel like there is not nearly as many good movies any more, but maybe it is just because I am getting older). While "strengthening" the IP protections of artists may prevent some people from pirating media, I don't think this is the big problem. I'm not sure I know any adults in the work force that pirate stuff. Most just buy the things that they think are worth the price and don't bother with the other stuff.

I am used to just calling it KAPL (I worked in the "program" too) but got to typing quickly. Did you know the authors?

I missed Ni64, thanks. But it isn't obvious that it is a better choice that Ni62. Ni62 has a larger neutron cross section and higher abundance than Ni64. But who knows if cross section means anything in this scenario, especially after you hit this stuff with 30THz.

I agree that it happens and by people who do know better.

All kinds of information nuclear reactions and decay is available in "Nuclides and Isotopes", a chart of the nuclides published by KAPL (Knowles Atomic Power Laboratory). I recommend the "chart" in book form as it comes with a bunch of nuclear physics discussion. Based on the description in the article Ni+n=Cu+e. There is only one stable isotope of Ni that has a chance of going through this process and resulting in a stable isotope of copper and that is Ni62. Ni62 is only 3.63% of naturally occurring nickle. The most abundant isotope is Ni58 (68.07%) and it will go to Ni59 with addition of a neutron and will beta decay to Co59. Ni59 has a 7600 year half life so you could continue to change it to Ni60 then Ni61 then Ni62, but all of this wouldn't happen instantaneously as stated in the article (I guess you could start an enrichment plant so you are only using Ni62, but that cost a lot of money and energy and would have to be factored into the energy balance of the final "reactor"). These types of reactions don't take place in nature because the stable isotopes are already at the bottom of the "valley of stability" (have a minimum mass or maximum binding energy, see pages 27-28 of the 16th edition of the "Nuclides and Isotopes"). I guess it is possible that the 30THz vibrations change the local laws of physics, but I will remain skeptical until there is more than speculation. The article states, "LENR is a very long way from the day when you can go out and buy a home nuclear reactor. In fact, it still has to be proven that the phenomenon even exists, but hundreds of experiments worldwide indicate that heat and transmutations with minimal radiation and low energy input do take place with yields of 10 to 100 watts." TFA states that they are not even sure if the phenomenon exists and it doesn't provide the total energy input to the system so you can't tell if 10-100W is noise or error in the measuring equipment (this is one of the things that was going on in the cold fusion of years past).

Agreed, but even "less pollution than X" can be misleading. It is difficult to compare different types of pollution on an apples to apples basis. For example, how much carbon released into the atmosphere given a certain amount of cyanide that seeps into the ground from cyanide heap leaching? But at least that discussion would get the facts on the table. I would argue that the word "clean" isn't always used with a negative motive, but it is likely that the person using it doesn't have an in-depth enough knowledge of the subject to say anything else (in which case maybe they shouldn't be talking). Remember Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

The city I live in has about 60K people. It is entirely powered by 90+Mwe from a small series of hydro plants. After the efficiency conversion of about 1/3 the electrical output from the 250 Mwt would be about enough to do it. Not to shabby to be able to power a 50K person city. I love nuclear but if this is for real it shouldn't be trivialized.

Clean depends on the definition. There is a waste product associated with every kind of industrial process and every kind of energy production. But the forms of the waste are not all the same nor are they equivalent. Many time people equate the term clean to the quantity of carbon produced during the energy production. If this new technology is viable and it actually contains 99% of the carbon that is a HUGE development. The mining process could be improved and much of the eye sore can be avoided if you don't strip mine. I think there is a town in Pennsylvania that has been "on-fire" since the 50s or 60s because an underground coal fire was not contained.

It isn't libertarian economics it real life experience from my brothers stores. And there is nothing I said that would contradict your two points. Prices are set to maximize revenues, I agree. My point was it CAN'T raise prices without driving away the business, notice the parenthetical note I left. Businesses already have the minimum number of employees to maintain the required service level, I agree. They CAN'T let people go without it affecting the quality of the product. You comment is based on the assumption that there is sufficient profit margin for the store owners to take it out of hide. Look at the numbers that I put in the post, the margins don't have much room to support this. For those businesses that have slim margins, prices will go up or or quality will go down. Why make a point based on market economics and then promptly ignore the consequences? Remember, you can't give something to someone that doesn't have it without first taking it from someone who does. Classic Liberal economics, I will take from those that have to give to those that don't.

You probably should note that it is about 500 passenger-miles per gallon (pmpg), not miles per gallon (mpg). The table shows that the train itself gets 1.25 miles per gallon. Still very efficient when compared to other transportation.

I would be up for the extension. The waste isn't a problem if our they would open the national repository.

I call dibs on the patent for using expandable tissue in the thorax, driven by a remotely controlled diaphragm, to re-oxygenate blood and sustain life. While I am at it I will patent atmospheric gases within a specific range of concentrations on the surface of rocks orbiting around stars. Complete BS.