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Nucular Hydrogen Economy

Posted by michael on from the don't-email-about-misspelling dept.

Mark Baard writes "The hydrogen economy will at least in part be based on nukes. The DOE will build a pilot high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which theoretically can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside a cheap modular unit."

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  1. Nucular? by denjin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. Is this a joke piece, seriously, I want to know!?!?!?!

  2. Nucular? by tedrek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Huh? hooked on sounding out imaginary words are we?

  3. Nucular by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be building it;-)

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  4. Nucular ? by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do you mean NUCLEAR ?

    Just because George Bush Jr. pronounces it "nucular" doesn't mean that is how it is spelled.

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  5. Preemptive strike by andrei_r · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Our answer to grammar nazis:

    Going Nucular - http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/nucular.html

  6. While I'm not surprised... by Arker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While I'm not surprised that this got posted to slashdot with such a glaringly obvious misspelling, I am a bit surprised that the linked article makes the same mistake. Not that the Village Voice is necessarily the greatest reference in the world, but they do have a reputation for being literate. The article even gets it right throughout the text, but the headline reads like it was written by my 4 year old nephew. It's not like they would even need a spellchecker to notice it, not only does it stick out like a sore thumb on it's own, the word appears correctly throughout the article - how much more obvious could it be?

    At first I was surprised that the slashdot crew hadn't fixed this yet, but maybe they hit the link, saw the same spelling in the VV title, and decided it was right?

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