New tech would need new kernels if not vet will unlock straight away. Thats what I thought the plan was anyways.

Well that means it will stop players from hoarding large amounts of rp for nee technology.  Could just horde the kernals, but most would be typically just sold.

I was also going to suggest a cross faction converter like 4 numiquol to convert to 1 theolidical.  But figured it would be instantly shot down.

Ok, but what if a character has reached the limit, but wants to donate RP to his corp? Ask someone else to research them? Coupled with the fact that people can hoard the kernels too, this sounds a bit too much hassle with questionable benefits.

you donate to corp what you don't need anymore.

whats actually missing, is an option to extract research points back into kernels so you can sell excess on the market, or donate it to a pet corp.

Yes right research for corp would be awesome.  What happens right now it the corp research has tons of unspent factional that they don't need.  I'd like to do something with.

I just had to hard calculate how many of each kernel I needed in each section