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Energy Secretary Steven Chu — recently famous for telling Congress that his department is not interested in helping lower gasoline prices — said he would give himself a grade of A-minus for the past year. A year in which, like all years at Energy, Chu’s department has not caused a single kilowatt hour of power or a gallon of combustible fuel to be produced. Grade inflation is real and it’s everywhere.
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Marc Jeric| 3.8.12 @ 3:20PM
Dr. Chu (he must be a doctor of green) has never heard of the laws of thermodynamics; he wants to beat them with "green" energy which, unfortunately for him, does not exist.
albert constantine jr.| 3.8.12 @ 10:26PM
I think he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, which might demonstrate that even if you can prove something in a laboratory somewhere, it doesn't necessarily mean you can do a thing in the real world.
LC JB | 3.8.12 @ 10:48PM
Physics? Really now? I should think that someone so 'learned' would intuitively understand that bar some incredible break throughs in technology, that solar and wind power can never provide sufficient base-load for the power grid. It's simply a matter of space needed to produce with both technologies. The fact remains that only nuclear power can keep up with the increasing demand for our energy needs. This devotion to silly 'green-energy' as a solution to anything should fall of it's own weight. Even O's favorite electric vehicle boat anchors need electricity to recharge them. No one seems interested in that discussion, since at the point they appear to be 'green'. Sheesh, if only folks had passed high-school science they'd understand, but then the schools would have to detract from diversity training to do that. How silly of me?