The main driver of population growth is people living longer. The problem with less babies being born means less young labourers for all the old fucks to exploit. Logan's Run would be a better sci-fi system to adopt.
Of the top of my head, IIRC the blades in a turbine are grown into a single crystal of titanium so there's no weak points between the crystalline structure.
As if Nintendo would donate anything. The probable reason for using a Gameboy instead of a DS is that Nintendo wanted too much for licencing the use of the DS.
GMA T50 begs to differ.