"Something akin to reciprocity still applies, no?"

Not necessarily. Chiral gold nanocrystals can be as small as 10nm and still be excited by 808nm laser light causing two-photon absorption and emitting in the visible range.

When it comes to solid-state photon emissions, minimum emitted wavelength is not necessarily constrained to size of the structure, but rather the electrical bandgap that needs to be overcome. Electrons are much smaller than any photon, by about 2-3 orders of magnitude, yet it is their being trapped in quantum wells which creates light emissions with wavelengths many times their size.

"I'd imagine 'invested in a mining concern' is rare on the spectrum of HNers' resumes."

You'd be surprised how many of us actually have a mining claim or two ;)

I suspect we will be finding this technology being used a fair bit in aerospace tech like satellites to compliment the onboard solar, given the low-temp operational capability.

Do satellite batteries run cold?

Given the difficulty of radiating heat away I would have expected the opposite.

Especially considering the incentive to send up as little battery as possible, and the very predictable day/night cycle leading to the ability to precisely predict how small a battery you can get away with...

Generally it's hard to control: it'll be hot sometimes and cold other times, so a wide operating time is useful.

Entirely? lol not even close.

Source: I am out of LEDs and LASERs and now handle aerospace solar for a private company. Guess who almost everyone in the private sector flies on?

Man let a drug dealer give me a binary 'kilo' of some drug. That's almost a free ounce included!

In North America blackmarket drugs are often sold in pounds and ounces but measured in grams so you do see some rounding.

It only doesn't flicker if there's no power driving circuitry - eg just LEDs and a resistor.

Otherwise, if there is a power IC present, there is flicker, though fast enough for most humans to not perceive normally (you can still check it by waving your hand in front of the light and seeing the strobed afterimage.)

That's not strictly true. The very simplest of DC LED drivers flicker, such as the classic single-transistor battery saver circuit, but a slightly more complex DC LED driver circuit will not. One of the best ways to drive an LED is with a constant current source, which typically involves putting an inductor in series with the LED and switching the supply to that at a reasonably high frequency, which would mean the LED does not flicker at all.

If it's hooked directly to AC power, isn't there by definition a flicker? With a power IC, a poorly implemented power circuit will also visibly flicker. With high enough rate and the right power characteristics it should not be noticeable. Do you notice flicker in a quality phone or monitor screen?

Yes! And this after image is distracting.

""Can a man get pregnant?""

With Japan's artificial womb technology, sure! We can also create sperm or egg cells from just about anything and implant that into the womb.

ICE is gestapo. And I'll keep beating them down every chance I get. Can't screw with someone that mines nuclear materials very easily.

NO PERSON SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW.

Period. 5th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

When you sign up to be law enforcement, you are EXPECTED to lay your life down for the public good. Fearing for your life is not an excuse at all.

UCR is where you want to go if you're going for Geology or Ag/Hort, you aren't really trying to go there for SWE or EE, it isn't exactly known for those sorts of programs.

Source: I live right next to their citrus and asparagus test fields and often visit their geology building to use their XRD and XRF systems.