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| By: Ari Wednesday December 10, 2008 3:30 pm | |
This seems like a great selection:
President-elect Barack Obama’s reported selection of Dr. Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy is a bold stroke to set the nation on the path to a clean energy economy. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is the sixth director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a Department of Energy-funded basic science research institution managed by the University of California.
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a fine choice
As a citizen and physicist, I am beyond thrilled that our Secretary of Energy will be someone who understands conservation laws and the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation equation.
I’ve seen in several places, some confusion about Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL). It is NOT a weapons lab, it’s a research institute. A lot of people are mixing it up with Livermore.
Prof. Boland…thanks for your insight. So I assume that Dr. Chu won’t be pushing any perpetual motion machines or “a tank of gasoline from a pill into 20 gallons of water” solutions ;-)…or promoting Intelligent Design because evolution “violates” the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
At least we can hope!
LBL has always been a research lab even when the cyclotron was state of the art, and I suppose it was misconstrued since the early work there was involved with the Manhattan project, it still carries the taint. All that nuclear weapons work was carried out to Livermore in the 1960’s, I believe. Even Livermore does a lot of energy related work that’s unassociated with the weapons testing stuff (and much of that takes place in New Mexico).
Good stuff!