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“features Battalion/Page 20 October 13,1982 Plan ahead, youths told _ ^ , # staff photo by David Fisher fine furry friend Cheryl Winters of College Station Winter’s furry friend resembles an plays with a chinchilla at The Pet overgrown, fuzzy rat; of course, his Emporium in Post Oak Mall. fur is much more valuable. Plastic lens makes solar power cheap United Press International NEW YORK — Too many young people wait too long to get their act together when it comes to future business careers, says the president of a human resources management consulting firm. Andrew Sherwood, of Good rich and Sherwood Co., advises teenagers to begin planning careers as soon as possible upon entering high school. Learn to read with speed and comprehension, he says. Take extra study courses if your read ing is weak. Then, turn the tele vision off and read, read, read. After college you will have to read reports, industry maga zines, business papers and piles of correspondence to stay on top of your job and get ahead. Learn to communicate orally and in writing, he says. You’ll need to persuade others to see things your way and keep your superiors posted. You will have td^make oral or written reports and presenta tions or write intercompany memos. Take courses to help de velop such skills, Sherwood says. Make a special effort when doing book reports, history out lines, English compositions. His other tips: •Look for chances to speak before school groups and others. •Learn to work with people in a common cause. If you’re athle tic, try team sports. Join in group activities at church, in your neighborhood, at Scouts, at the YMCA. •Learn how to get along with both superiors and peers. •Watch natural leaders and work to develop their traits. •Engage in extracurricular activities that later will be as helpful to your career as scholas tic credits. Become active in stu dent government organizations. •Talk to and ask advice of re- Two new and exciting restaurants and club operations are coming to Bryan- College Station. n >M\\\\e s Co„, 707 sov*" 9rve y^a. are now accepting applications Managers, assist managers & cooks Tha nm B A PP'y with Kris at Old Beef & Brew 9.3 Mon.-Fri. . 815 Harvey Rd. Bring Resume latives or friends who are in careers that interest you. •If you’re headed for college, zero in on your major now so you can design high school courses to better prepare for that major. •Concentrate on studies. Learn self discipline so you get grades needed for college or grades that will look good to a prospec tive employer. •Learn all you can to help in a career. Get practical experience during school holidays and sum mer vacations. •I f you want a job in journal ism or public relations, work for your newspaper — without pay if necessary. • If you want to be a teacher, look for a summer camp counse lor’s job. • fake any job you can get at any pay, Sherwood says, as long as it gives you a leg up on the career you want. ' TICKET v N MART , Need a ticket? Buy from us! Don't need your ticket? Well sell it; you get the money. Standard Reserved HI 00 Prices: Student $ 5 50 Each Saturday game day MSC Main Lounge 3:00-5:45 j — APO — United Press International DALLAS — The success of the world’s first energy system using a plastic lens to focus sunlighm solar cells indicates solar energy could be an economical alterna tive to conventional fuels later this decade, says the engineer in charge of the project. Mark O’Neill, the director of Fresnel solar collector programs at E-Systems, said the $1.1 mil lion experimental system instal led at Dallas-Fort Worth Region al Airport converts solar radia tion directly into electricity and produces steam as a byproduct. “It is the highest efficiency photovoltaic system that has been installed anywhere on a large scale,” he said. “Its overall efficiency is 60 percent. When sunlight is converted to energy, about 10 percent of available sunlight is converted to electricity and about 50 percent is converted to heat, he said. Built under a Department of Energy contract, the system gen erates 27 kilowatts of electricity for the emergency lights in the airport’s central utilities plant. It also generates about 140 kilo watts of hot water for the boiler used in the airport’s air condi tioning system. Rather than the many rows of solar panels used in conventional systems, this project uses an arched, 3-by-8-foot Fresnel lens which contains thousands of little prisms. This plastic lens collects all the light which hits it and fo cuses it on solar cells — lined up in a row 1 inch wide and 8 feet long. “Silicon cells are very expen sive (about $25) now,” O’Neill said. “So the trick is to use a cheap plastic lens to magnify the sun light onto a small number of these solar cells.” Because the concentrated light is much hotter than that hit ting a solar cell in a conventional system, engineers had to find a way to cool the cells. “We mounted the cells on a copper pipe with a flat top and we pass water through there to keep the cells cool,” he said. “That heat exchanger also heats up the water so we can use that energy (as steam). The new system saves silicon and money and is more efficient. That’s why we think it has a whole lot of promise for the fu ture, O’Neill said. The experimental system is not cost effective, however, be cause workers had to design each part of the system and practically build the project by hand. O’Neill estimates electricity from this system costs $15 to $20 a kilowatt. However, an upcom ing project using a new genera tion of equipment at Sandia Na tional Laboratories in Albuquer que, N.M., is expected to cut the cost to about $10 a kilowatt. Within a decade, mass pro duction techniques could make a system similar to that at the air port competitive with fossil fuels, he said. “The guys at Sandia Labor atories have evaluated what our system would cost if it were mass roduced, and they came up with 2 per kilowatt,” he said. “That price would be completely com petitive with fossil fuels.” r*M*6viES-T0-G0 • {would, you like to see STAR WARS, SU- J PERMAN II, and much more on your • own television? • • You Can for *9°° a day 2 Here’s How: Rent a videorecorder for $5.00/Day • and rent a videocassette movie for $4.00/Day. 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