The word "Primordial" substantially predates the modern concepts of the big bang and "primordial necleosynthesis", so perhaps it is the physicists and not the geologists that have bastardized the meaning.

Primordial elements are those that formed prior to the formation of the earth, and include the heavy elements used in fission reactors.

Those atoms would be the "primordial elements" the OP is speaking of...

Ok, man, as a "Chemical and Biological Engineering Student" you really should have done the math first... I'll forgive you as I doubt you sleep much ;-)

10 kWh/month wouldn't even power a dorm room mini-fridge...

You can, depending on where you live. Check here.

It takes time to obtain funding. The article is talking about the people who take a risk and actually launch startups, and their health insurance during the time that they are pitching their ideas to investors to obtain the funding to offer insurance to new employees, not people like you, who only join after the funding is secured.

We should have a bustling casino perched atop Mount Everest and a fully self-sufficient megalopolis on Antarctica long before we consider colonizing other planets.

Except you don't own the taxi--the owner of the taxi pays the insurance and passes it along to you in the fare. What you are describing is more like Zipcar. But iIf you own the self-driving car you are responsible for the insurance as much as the owner of a taxi or Zipcar is. However you dice it, though, the person sitting in the back seat staring at his iPhone benefiting from the self-driving car is the one who will ultimately pay, either through insurance or the price of the vehicle or through registration fees if it comes to that.

I don't disagree with you that the common public won't accept it. I also don't yet believe that these are ready for the common public either.

I think the owner of such a car should end up paying for accidents through insurance costs, unless a driving algorithm was fundamentally flawed.

But overall, while I don't much like the idea of cars on autopilot, as I like to make eye contact with a driver before, say, crossing the street in a crosswalk, I nonetheless like them better than drunk drivers, of which there are plenty right now. Let's turn it around--maybe we need to think of it as having an autopilot ready to take over (or anyway loudly warn the driver) if its sensors pick up the driver doing something stupid. Let's look for beneficial uses of the sensor array necessary for these cars to navigate...

I'd give some cheers if they could even find impractical use outside of a silicon chip!

The proper name is cumulene. In fact, that's pretty clear from the first line of the Wikipedia article you tried to link:

Emphasis mine.

One of those days... :)

I gather that 50 is indeed >0.5, but I'm not sure how you go from ">0.5 W M^-2" in the abstract to 50 watts per square meter. It's half a watt per square meter, which is pretty poor.

Get an iBurka?

An excerpt from an actual transcript (emphasis mine):

We can leave it as an exercise for readers to determine how "significant" the difference is. Actual video clip can be seen here in case someone doesn't believe the transcript.

Yes. Especially if not compared to people reading a book under a 60 watt incandescent light bulb.