OT on the nuclear plant in Japan:

‎”The new line would revive electric-powered pumps, allowing the company to maintain a steady water supply to troubled reactors and spent fuel storage ponds, keeping them cool. The 180 emergency workers have been working in shifts to manually pump seawater into the reactors because last week’s earthquake and tsunami disabled main and backup power for electric-powered cooling pumps.”

That’s from CBS news. Manually pump ?!? That’s amazing, right out of the 19th century, like on a ship in a Joseph Conrad novel.