[Marxism] An interesting pick for Obama's Energy S'cty

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nobel laureate physicist Steve Chu will serve as Secretary of Energy in 
president-elect Barack Obama's administration. His current position is 
director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Chu will take over from current energy secretary Sam Bodman, who has 
served since December 2004, following Obama's inauguration on 20 January 
next year.

As the head of a national laboratory, Chu would be expected to bring a 
strong scientific bent to future energy policy. He worked at Stanford 
University as a professor of physics and went on to share the 1997 Nobel 
Prize in that subject. Chu has great enthusiasm for non-food biofuels 
and energy efficiency, and at Lawrence Berkeley was key to the 
development of advanced climate models.

For me this is the most fascinating pick for any position in the Obama 
Cabinet. His views on energy are quite interestingly and, IMO, 
wonderfully eclectic. We'll see if he's actually allowed to influence 
policy.

Selected readings by Chu:

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/10/03_chu.shtml  and
http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/rpt_SustainableEnergyFuture_Aug2008.pdf

David

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