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BSME degree (1956) in Engineering from Michigan State
University. Majored in Mechanical Engineering and minored in Physics. I am a Registered
professional engineer in the states of Illinois and California. Retired as a
Principle
engineer and an engineering unit manager with the General Electric Co. in
San Jose, CA.
Getting through college was not easy for me. I had very
little financial support. The Korean War broke out after my Sophomore year
and I had to take some time off to go to the Korean War. I spent the year
September 1952 to September 1953 in the Korean War and was awarded three
campaign battle stars, a bronze star medal, and a Presidential citation.
I spent my entire engineering career in the
field of Nuclear Power-Energy systems, including land based, naval ships, and
outer space applications. I am a pioneer in the development of Fast Breeder
Reactor power plants. In 1957 I started with the Enrico Fermi Nuclear
power plant in Monroe, Michigan, next joined Argonne National Laboratory and participated in
the design, construction start-up and operation of the Experimental Breeder
Reactor II (EBR II) located in Idaho, the Clinch River Fast Breeder Power
plant, and finally to General Electric for development of the commercial Fast
Breeder Reactor Power plant.
The environmentalists do not want Fast
Breeder Power plants. Presidents Carter and Clinton paid off election
favors by stopping the Clinch River plant progress, and Clinton stopped Argonne
National Laboratories' Experimental Breeder Reactor II after it had been operated successfully for 30 years and was generating power
for the National Reactor Engineering Test Site in Idaho as well as performing
value experiments both for the US and Japan. Clinton also stopped all government
support for the Fast Breeder development and turned to supporting the renewable
energy concepts on which billions of dollars have been spent. I can find very
little results for this effort.
. Of course I am biased toward nuclear power, but I
do not see any other source of energy that can supply humans sufficient
energy for as long as it will ever be needed on this earth.
I do not ask for or take any money or put
advertisements on this Web site. In other words I do not get paid to give
someone else's views whether or not I agree with them. Contrast this to
the environmental and religious organizations who ask for and get significant
amounts of money and salaries.
As you can see I do not pull any punches in this Web Site. I
have always been amazed at the Presbyterians in the hinterland who do not have a
scintilla of knowledge of the national PCUSA's policies or actions. I submit
that 90% of the members in the hinterland do not know that the PCUSA are
anti-Nukes and soft technology advocates right along with the secular humanistic
environmentalists. I once was a member of the Presbyterian church, but left when
they came up with their anti-nuke policies. I asked them if they would like to
enter into discussion with professional engineers on the subject. No was their
answer. They make their own decisions and don't bother them with the
facts. The environmentalists supply the facts. Strange bed fellows. The
environmentalists, by and large, are not Christians. Their deity is the earth.
One of my other endeavors is financial math..
I wrote a book entitled "The Mathematics of Personal Finance."
The mathematics in this book is not more advanced than ninth grade
algebra.
If you would like to get a book it is $20.95 and can be bought through Barnes & Noble.com, Boarders.com
and any other book sellers. It does not appear on book shelves. It is
printed on demand and mailed to the readers who ask for it.
College students who do get the book
think that is great and wished their instructors would get it also. It was a
hobby of mine since I had to learn this subject to pass the State engineering
license exam. Also my youngest son has an MBA.
However, if one reads this book they will
never fall prey to the cheating and obfuscation going on today in the
financial world that has many losing their homes, buying worthless
insurance policies, and making poor investments. etc. You will swim with the
sharks and survive. Your will be more astute about finance than most bankers.
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