First off, someone reads Fark.
Second off.. It is deplorable that the armed forces are looking to use this as a weapon. If we could figure out a way to make batteries off of these babies, we would be in high cotton as far as portable power goes. Forget power outages, every house could be run on a AAA battery.
I know that much of our civilian technology is derived from older military technology, but just once I would like to see someone say "I know we can use this to make HUGE ASS BOMBS, but how much more good would it do in the civillian sector.