As I read these comments, I remembered a postdoc friend who, although he loved bench science, had a problem burning out if it consumed all of his day.
But, of course, there is a problem: "Burning off the aging dry powder will likely result in too much capital chasing too few deals throughout 2012," according to Mr. MacArthur.
More than 70 people were treated at Underwood-Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, N.J., most complaining of breathing problems, burning eyes or scratchy throats, said a spokeswoman, Karen Urbaniak.
As noted by one respondent: " The issues of the poor status of maternal health services and unacceptably high levels of maternal mortality started being discussed and debated in political and social forums which played a significant role in making these problems burning issues.
We also met Hartwell Carson of the Waterkeeper Alliance, who said, "The problem with burning coal as an electricity source is that if you continue to burn coal you're always going to produce a toxic byproduct, which is coal ash".
Burning pine trees toppling onto roofs weren't causing these fires to spread, in other words; the problem was burning material blown under wooden decks or into gutters clogged with dead pine needles, where it smoldered for hours amid other flammable stuff.
And then a stage manager appeared in the lobby and announced that the problem was burning rubber on a backstage projector and many hardy souls started to their seats, determined to see the drama to its end.
To the extent that global warming is caused by humanity, as many scientists believe, this is a serious problem because burning coal at a power plant releases more greenhouse gases than using oil or natural gas to generate the same amount of electricity.
The UK could and should be much more ambitious, because new fast reactors offer a way of solving the nuclear waste problem by burning up all the long-lived elements that make current waste a concern for tens of thousands of years, and leaving only a smaller residue that is effectively safe within just three centuries.
Scientists think they may be able to solve the problem by burning the metal off, or by blowing away the metal fragment with gaseous helium.
It's the age-old problem of burning cash to get to that scale – or cutting costs to make the numbers work better.
