I just heard about Steve Chu being nominated for Energy Secretary, and see that I’m late to the party (Uncertain Principles, Cosmic Variance, and elsewhere in the blogohedron, I’m sure)
(As with Chad and Sean, I’ve met him; we sat next to each other at dinner one evening at the Frequency Standards and Metrology Symposium at St. Andrews in 2001.)
Having someone who, along with being a Nobel laureate, has the pedigree of running a national lab and someone with actual experience doing lab experiments is a fantastic thing. This is not someone who is being appointed under the sort of “he ran the FAA, so he can certainly run Energy” career-bureaucrat mentality. This is someone who isn’t going to be confused into thinking that hydrogen is an energy source, or that generators using hydrino reactions will solve our foreign oil dependence.
Will Chu be a guppy amidst sharks? No aspect of government is charged with accomplishing anything beyond its own growth. The best are also invasive and metastatic re Homeland Severity, the EPA, HHS, DoE (Education and Defense)… Post-industrial energy crapitation is already obsolete,
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/htoo.htm
(with literature citations!)
The simple solution is Detroit steel with psychopharma injectors. You are hooked after the first test drive. Paxil will do it – and Officially improve your outlook, too.