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Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis

How's this for change? Steven Chu, an actual physicist who wants to stop climate change and revolutionize solar power, gets the nod as energy secretary.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, December 10, 2008 06:10 PM

    The DoE DOES run Livermore, and Sandia and others

    So Chu, even though he doesn't work for guys who build nukes today, would in fact be in charge of them going forward. I just wanted to point that out in case you were hoping that he'll automatically ban all nuclear weapons from the planet on day one.

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