Watch out if they rule on Sponge Bob Square Pants if he is shown without his underwear. Looks like underage stick figures are next. But hangman is okay??

I don't wait until black friday to shop online. its more fun to wait for ups to go get it for me. its also a lot more fun to watch the ups trucks going up and down the street than listening to crying babies at walmart. besides that you don't get mauled by shopping carts or have to listen to stupid xmas music. ups could change their to gofer, like gofer this, gofer that. fetch it. bring it over, .... dang i just amazon it to ups on this cell phone and then check the front door step...ll no fuss, no muss... using your geekitude optimally.

The nuclear power plant industry is in desparate need of people with an ability in math and science. I just retired as an operations instructor. I had a degree in physics and a masters in math. I was selected by Admiral Rickover for his nuclear officer program in 1974 and served in the nuclear navy on a submarine for several years before taking a career at a large nuclear power plant in Mississippi in 1980. People like myself are retiring in large numbers, and in my case as early as possible (55) due to the job stress and burnout.

There used to be a supply of qualified technical people from the nuclear navy, but that dried up almost completely.

There used to be a supply of Nuclear Engineers and now there are hardly any at all.

Right now there is a very high demand for nuclear operations people who can pass the Generic Fundamentals exam the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires for someone to obtain an operator's license. Its an exam on Reactor Theory, Thermodynamics and power plant components. They even give you their exam question bank to study.

Its a shame that many engineers with college degrees can't pass it.

I would have to say that the pool of new qualified people is near zero .

Someone who can do math and science would be welcomed with open arms (and $$$) in this industry right now. There are new reactor plant sites desparate for technical people all over the U.S. Many jobs do not require a college degree. Most of the people I worked with did not have degrees and made just as much as I did ( ~$100K ). The attainment of a Reactor Operator or Senior Reactor Operator license is the key. Once I got my Senior Reactor Operator license, it didn't matter how many degrees I had or even if I did not have one.

And by the way, after working nearly 28 years at that plant, I got more radiation exposure from dental x-rays and a chest x-ray than I ever got combined at the nuclear plant. Nothing at all to be afraid of.

The sad thing about nuclear power plants is that the technology is stuck decades in the past. Not cutting edge except from paper cuts.

You must be one of the nazi-grammar policemen I hear about here on slashdot. Your post kind of contradicts yourself with that non-word pretentious thing and improper adjective to describe Latin grammar that you used. I understood perfectly, however. So what kind of penalty are you going to impose on yourself or ahould I report you to the the head-nazi. But this could backfire and you may come back at me like was done to Joe the Plumber for asking a question. So I will go back into my hole now where nazi-grammar-police aren't allowed. There is a sign at the entrance to that effect.

I need an equation editor. Google apps won't do that. The rquation editor in Open Office Writer is much easier and intuitive than that propritary one that comes with Microsoft word. Maybe I will write a web based math editor. Its been a project I have dreamed about doing for years, ever since I wrote a big web app for the company I retired from.

Mr. Paperclip was off having a fling with Ms. Staple behind the whiteboard.

Over in Mississippi where I am the expression is: " I'd rather whittle me a wooden beak and go peck s*h$i%t with the chickens."

Those brine shrimp are in the water where its cool. I think they will be fine. If this plant uses water as a copling medium to reject the portion of unusable energy (every real heat engine has to), its likely that marine life and algae will flourish in it, just like they do in all the power plant discharge canals around the world. Those places are where regular folks go fishing in the winter time and put real food on the table. Alligators like those warm water places down in Florida, Lousisiana, and Mississippi, so watch out.

Look simple mind. If you burn something, its giving off energy in the process. duh. that's why even a caveman can figure out that staying next to a fire will keep him warm. From thermodynamics and heat engines, the greater T hot is (the temperature of the heat source) the greater the thermal efficiency. Carnot proved that in the century before the last one. The combustion of trash gives off more energy than it takes to ignite it. I am fascinated by the idea of doing it at a high temperature and breaking everything down into plasma.

I like your post and the way you think. The other nerd just says it won't work with no supporting evidence. It looks to me that the company thats doing this would be the source of info. If it does not work as the nerd guy says, then why would this company be going into business doing it. Most companies won't survive long pissing their capital away, unless they have a "Bwarny Fwank/Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid" in their pocket to bail them out.