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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary
bledri writes "Officials close to the Obama transition team say that
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Chu is the likely candidate for Energy Secretary. Some are worried that Chu is not politically savvy enough,
but I'm hopeful that a scientist will base policy on evidence.
Discuss among yourselves."
"but I'm hopeful that a scientist will base policy on evidence" Me too! The planet has cooled almost 3 tenths of a degree since Mr. Algore's assertion that the plant is getting hot. I am all about being a good steward of the planet. I question the logic of allot of the radical answers to almost insignificant issues, all the while making the problem worse. As an example: Lets switch vehicles from burning "hydro"carbons with a maximum efficiency of 30 to 40 percent to electricity. Electricity, here where we generate most of it with carbons at a max efficiency of 40 percent and can lose almost half of that in transmission. Add another 10 percent loss in battery storage and another 10 percent in conversion back to kinetic energy. Silly. How about make the vehicle more efficient... period. Where is my Turbo Diesel Hybrid!
> Just because someone is a great scientist does not mean the person is a good administrator or a good politician.
Yeah, but it can't be any worse than the current lot, who believe the earth was made by some cunt with a white beard 6000 years ago, and that dinosaur bones were planted as a trick, etc.
Is this supposed to make up for all the nazis he already appointed? It's like a game of duck, duck, goose, where every duck is a corporate bush appointee and the goose is the occasional nobel winning scientist.
I still have VERY little faith in the Obama presidency, though it's probably still to early to assume:
He will STILL not thoroughly investigate 9/11.
He will STILL be more beholden to corporations than the American people.
He will STILL be allies with maniacal genocidal fabrication states like Israel.
I'm not holding my breath. And please don't respond about the 9/11 thing unless you want to discuss the found thermate residue and THIS PICTURE:
http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_a567c508f431db9f78e20057b5b59fb9.jpg
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
even the founder of greenpeace is for nuclear power now
a REAL environmentalist understands that coal is far more damaging to the environment than nuclear is, even with 10 more chernobyls
actually, i remember seeing a special on tv about chernobyl as it is today, and how it is a wildlife paradise
so perhaps a real environmentalist militant worthy of their greenpeace stripes would go around sabotaging nuclear power plants to create human free wildlife zones?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
did you believe it was possible to participate in the tomfoolery and yet still stand in remove of it and criticize it?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it