This is so wrong: Nobel Energy Scientist as Secy of Energy!?
AP:
officials close to the transition team privately say that Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, appears to be increasingly on track to become energy secretary.A Chinese-American, Chu is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004, where he has pushed aggressively for research into alternative energy as a way to combat global warming.
It is the oldest of the Energy Department's national laboratories, but does only unclassified work and in recent years under Chu has been at the center of research into biofuels and solar technologies. Chu has been a strong advocate for the need to engage scientists in the search for ways to combat global warming by replacing fossil fuels with other energy sources such as biofuels and the sun.
Couldn't they find a Soft Drink CEO or a Dentist or an Admiral or an Attorney for the job?
I voted for a radical liberal terrorist-pal socialist--from Mars, dammit! Much more of this and I'm gonna ask for my vote back.
posted by fouro @ 7:27 PM
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Hey, our President-Elect said in the debates that he plans to surround himself with the best and brightest.
A Nobel laureate might know a thing or two... certainly more than whatever former oil industry exec is in the job now, eh.
Ooops, I think my snark/subtlety calibrator's gone wonky.
Tom, I was impressed and floored by the natural common sense of the pick versus the usual crony know-nothings. Although a soda pop executive likely would know something about gas.
Careful, though, "Best and brightest" would be McNamara and the winners who brought us that *other* pointless testosterone-based war to spread freedom.
Come on guys, what's next? Putting solar panels on the southward facing, sloping roof of Dominion Power's energy trading floor in its riverfront headquarters? It's not like that corporation cares about producing renewable energy.
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